Apple Rumors Round 5,253: iPhone Evidence and Giant-Ass TVs?
- October 24th, 2006
- 5 Comments
That’s all fairly well known. The new hotness revolves around a refresh to Apple’s stagnant monitor line. Apple has a reputation for its monitors that’s well deserved, and rumor has it that it will drop prices on its current lineup and add super-high-end 42″ and 50″ monitors. True, that has been circulating for awhile, but the new hotness is that these monsters would also feature HDTV engines, to double as your computer monitor and your TV. Chances are the monitor/TVs would also feature Apple’s remote, Front Row, and WiFi to work with the iTV and iTunes Movie Store.
This would be a slick (but expensive) addition to Apple’s non-computer line-up, but would further its press out of the den and into the living room. It will be interesting to see if Apple turns its current LCDs into HDTVs as well, or if it advertises that it’s “iTV-ready”, which is what we’d suspect.
iPhone in Januray and 50 inch monitor [MacSimum News]
Harvey (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Maybe we’re off on the fringe (very possible!), but most people in our forums don’t care about integrating cell phones with digital players.
A lot of us are iPod owners, and the most common concern is battery life. If playing songs or videos on your iPod/iPhone is depleting your cell phone battery, it’s just not worth it. Digital players are amusing, but cell phones are life and death.
I suppose iPhone is envisioned as an additional product, separate and apart from the iPod line. I don’t see cell phone and digital player convergence taking off in the near-term.
- Harvey
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i-junkie (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I’m livin’ and dyin’ by the iphone rumours. Sure hope they work out the power issues, ’cause I gotta have it.
Bill Mason (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Well Mr. Harvey?
I have the advantage of time here, I know if you read my comment that you wrote yours a while ago, as it’s Dec 5th now, but on the latest episode of Diggnation Kevin Rose said the first non-smartphone iPhone will have 2 batteries; 1 for music, and 1 for phone! How’s that for making your comment look stupid. Just joking, but you’d take it back if you could, right?