Our coverage will be kicking off shortly. Please leave a comment to let us know your predictions for what we'll be seeing during the announcement!
Two rumoured pictures of the Apple Tablet, via
blog.dustincurtis.com. If it looks like this, I'll be a happy Apple fan.
Our coverage will be starting at around 9am, PT, and we'll be posting occasional updates, leaks, and rumours throughout the day. Stay tuned, and feel free to comment with your predictions!
Engadget have another set of leaked pictures, and some potential specs and prices:
www.engadget.com - They're guessing a price of around $800-$1000, and also suggesting that we'll see iLife '10 released today.
Jason Calacanis seems to have been using a tablet prototype, and has posted a series of really interesting tweets:
twitter.comHere's what we seem to know so far: It comes in multiple sizes/specs, it's running a version of the iPhone OS, priced between $599 and $799, contains HDTV tuner and PVR, it has a wireless keyboard connection, multiple cameras for video conferencing, Wi-Fi enabled, connects to Verizon and AT&T, fingerprint security, solar panel charging, 2-3 hour battery life, and thoroughly impressive games. Of course, this could all be complete speculation!
A side-splitting snippet from the Onion - "Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet":
www.theonion.comLooks like the US Patent Office have granted Apple a few interesting patents (how timely!). One relates to the ability to detect a finger hovering over a certain area of the screen, before you touch it:
www.engadget.comA few pictures of the preparation going on outside the venue:
www.cultofmac.comA supposed photo of the tablet from
www.engadget.com - Hard to make out the details, but the interface certainly feels like a scaled-up iPhone.
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Unfortunately Apple don't stream their events live, but they'll likely post it up on their website later today.
You can subscribe to the events video podcast in iTunes here:
phobos.apple.comThere's some speculation that we might see a preview (or developer release) of iPhone OS 4.0 during the event. Apple have been making changes to the developer website and T&Cs.
It's getting underway in 90 minutes, at 6pm GMT. Not long to wait now!
Another live blog certainly worth watching is the Guardian:
www.guardian.co.uk - They have a team of professional journalists at the event.
A shot of Apple's tablet-related patent, mentioned earlier on.
If you're killing time waiting for the keynote to start, why not take a look at the other sites in the AppStorm network? We've recently launched iPhone.AppStorm:
iphone.appstorm.netIf Apple do release a preview of the new iPhone OS today, you can become a registered developer and download it for $99. Registration is here:
developer.apple.com - Are any of you
that impatient? :)
Looks like people are being let into the event. Still an hour to go, though, so put the kettle on!
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The Apple Blog have a few great shots from outside the venue:
theappleblog.comAnother quick link to kill five minutes of waiting! Steve Jobs and his mythical tablet in various movie posters:
gutjahr.bizThe Guardian did some crowdsourced prediction:
www.guardian.co.uk - Interesting results, but there's no way it will support Flash.
There's also the possibility of iLife '10 being announced today. Looking forward to seeing what new features they've packed into it?
Another "spy" shot from Engadget:
www.engadget.comJust half an hour to go, folks!
Joshua Johnson
macappstorm
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