Apple January 27th Event

The i5 MBP will be released in March.

 

Some places are saying an announcement for all carriers for the iPhone, others are saying T-Mobile first, followed by Verizon in the summer. Should be interesting.

 

i predict ne macbook pros with ssl drives.

if that tablet is more than $1100 it better be legandry....but i'll buy it anyways

 

T-Mobile USA would not be in the short term because of how they used a different 3G frequency, and there are no quad band 3G chips.

 

Might sell my current MacBook to get that i5 MacBook if isn't pricey.

 

They just refreshed the MacBook line, it's not getting an upgrade. Plus the i5 will be marginal of an upgrade for this iteration. Next gen will be when you should upgrade, if you need to upgrade.

 

Yup. I'm interested in seeing, if they do announce other carriers this week, how the product line changes.

 

How is the i5 just marginal? I thought it was a whole new processor line from intel? And when's next gen, how many years?

 

They're going to release some Spray-Paint tubes that can paint different colors onto your monitor by blowing on them.

They want to get into the "Hey kids! Buy this awesome toy!!" market... seeing as how they saw how popular these already are:

Spoiler

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BUT BETTER. Just look at that advertisement.

 

Not according to this:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aj0GERrpPuhQ&pos=5


Apple May Allow All U.S. Carriers to Sell IPhone (Update3)

By Mary Childs

Jan. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. may release the iPhone to all U.S. wireless carriers in the next 18 months, doubling or tripling the number of devices sold, said Tim Horan, a telecommunications analyst at Oppenheimer & Co.

T-Mobile USA Inc. will get the phone this summer, followed by Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. in the fall, and Clearwire Corp. in 2011, Horan wrote in a note yesterday. AT&T Inc. has been the exclusive carrier since the iPhone debuted in June 2007.

“We believe AT&T’s iPhone exclusivity arrangement with Apple will be expiring by mid-2010,” Horan wrote. “For wireless carriers, customers are demanding the device and they need to remain competitive.”

Subscribers who use smartphones like the iPhone typically spend 80 percent more a month than the average customer as demand grows for data services, AT&T has said. Average monthly revenue per user at the carrier was $61.23 in the third quarter, compared with $51.04 at Verizon Wireless and about $56 at Sprint.

Apple, based in Cupertino, California, rose $5.33, or 2.7 percent, to $203.08 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. The stock more than doubled last year.

Apple declined to comment, said Natalie Kerris, a company spokeswoman. Representatives of Basking Ridge, New Jersey-based Verizon Wireless, Dallas-based AT&T, Overland Park, Kansas-based Sprint and Bellevue, Washington-based T-Mobile declined to comment. A call to Clearwire in Kirkland, Washington, wasn’t returned.

Margins, Capital Spending

With the addition of more carriers, iPhone sales in the U.S. will increase by 15 million to 25 million units annually, Horan wrote. The device will put pressure on mobile-phone company margins because of higher subsidy costs, he said. Adding the iPhone would also likely boost carriers’ capital spending on network upgrades by as much as $3 billion to support increases in data usage, he said.

Apple reports its quarterly earnings after markets close today. The company plans to introduce a tablet computer later this month, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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The Chron's Dwight Silverman has a good look at all of this in his blog:

http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2010/01/apple_to_att_can_we_just_be_friends_1.html

 

The i5 is a definite upgrade in architecture. Its best feature may be the Turbo Boost feature. I'm still waiting to get an i5 or i7, but mine will be a PC, and hopefully in the next 1-2 months.

The tablet Apple announces better be more than just a giant iPhone. I'll get one if it does more than run apps on a bigger screen. lol.

There are rumors of a next-gen iPhone being sold by April as well. Possibly with an OLED screen. I don't know how true those will turn out to be. Guess we could find out tomorrow.

 

Please god let it be a 4G iphone for verizon.

 

You get 25% increase from Turbo Boost, but that's it. In maybe 10 months, they will release the lower power version of these chips and that's when it will be beneficial. Plus the i5 integrated graphics is subpar.

 

So apparently the McGraw-Hill CEO was on CNBC and got a little too excited -pretty much talked about the tablet and that they had like 90% of their materials ready to run as e-books, that their college textbooks are ready for it.

I'd imagine Apple has been talking to just about every publisher out there.

 

I bet the tablet will destroy the Kindle DX. If it is not much more I will buy it.

 

Isn't the Kindle like 299? I would expect this tablet to be considerably more, but who knows.

Been thinking about picking up a Kindle.

 

And the textbooks will surely look great on it, but this is precisely why I hope for an optional, smart stylus. I'll be intrigued to see how easy it is to highlight and annotate without a stylus.

 

The DX is 490. A tablet will be different with an LCD and way less battery but if it has WiFi and similar shape and weight, 600-800 would be nice.