Tag: RUMORS

As any owner of an aging iOS device can tell you, the iconic Home button does not stand up well to long-term abuse. A leaked photo, purportedly of a fifth generation iPod Touch, suggests that Apple may finally be joining the rest of the gadget industry and switching to capacitive touch buttons. The blurry cam shot, if it's to be believed, also indicates that the iPod prototype packs 128GB of ...

Verizon iPhone, blah, blah, blah. We've heard before that Apple is hard at work on a CDMA version of the iPhone that will land on Verizon, and thereby eliminate the need for devoted Jobsians to suffer at the hands of AT&T's lackluster (but admittedly improving) service. Someone "familiar with the plans" told Bloomberg to expect the Apple handset to arrive on Big Red this January. Launching ...

Apparently, Research in Motion (RIM) isn't satisfied to stand pat in the smartphone market. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, RIM is testing a touchscreen BlackBerry prototype that has a slide-out keyboard and will run the yet-to-be-released BlackBerry OS 6. Users would be able to swipe and pinch the screen, and the device would also have a universal search bar for users to ...

Update: Jobs just announced the iPhone 4. Everyone's expecting Steve Jobs to unveil a next-generation iPhone at today's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) but what other goodies might the sly Apple CEO reveal? Here's a brief look at some of the buzz surrounding the event. Although Gizmodo gave us a sneak peek of the new iPhone a few months ago, today we'll find out which features made the ...

Unless you've just woken up from a 30-year coma, you're well aware that tomorrow Apple will be unveiling its "latest creation." What exactly that is remains to be seen, but the rumor mill has been grinding out a speculated iTablet (or iPad, or iSlate, or iSlab) with the conviction of R. Kelly cranking out sexually explicit slow jams. The Apple branded tablet is rumored to measure 10 inches, run ...

People have been speculating about a so-called Apple 'Tablet' e-reader for years, so, as Wired stated way back in 2007, "Someone will eventually get the timing right." While those long-standing rumors have remained, a new wave of seemingly legitimate conjecture seems to indicate that the mythical creation might actually become a reality during 2010. Multiple, reliable sources are claiming, ...

Fresh off the disappointment of no-shows like The Beatles on iTunes, a Mac tablet, and an iPod touch with a camera, the Apple rumor mill has toned it down a bit this go around and set its sights a bit lower -- the Mighty Mouse. Debuting in 2005, the Mighty Mouse's reception was, at best, lukewarm. While it was the first Apple-branded mouse to support right-clicks (through its touch-sensitive, ...

Rumors are circulating again that iTunes will finally be getting access to the Beatles catalog. According to a now mysteriously disappeared article from Sky News, Yoko Ono indicated to the news outlet that the Fab Four's albums might appear in the Apple owned music outlet. And, with an Apple press event scheduled for tomorrow (the same day as the release of The Beatles remastered albums) what ...

We've heard the rumors before that the iPhone might be heading to AT&T's biggest competitor -- Verizon. One research analyst (fancy way of saying "good guesser") at Piper Jaffray told investors that Apple will open the iPhone up to other carriers in the U.S. in the summer of 2010. Of course, there is little more evidence of this than there was in April when we first reported this rumor. Such ...

If you're tired of all the iPhone and Android rumors, but aren't ready to give up on speculating in general, take a gander at what Sony will supposedly be unveiling at the E3 Expo in June -- a brand-new Sony PSP. The new portable gaming system will supposedly come in a new form and be free of the dead-end UMD drive. Instead, the PSP _____ ('Slide'? 'Flip'? 'Go'? Pick one.) will have eight or 16 ...

We thought that the days of absurd iPhone rumors were behind us. We were pretty sure that the new phone operating system du jour -- Android -- had finally stolen the spotlight. Besides, the iPhone has developed a regular cycle of reasonably predictable improvements, so what could the rumor mill possibly stir up to take attention away from Google and the Palm Pre? How about the tantalizing idea ...

Whoa, folks, the week's barely started and already we have some big tech news. According to "people familiar with the situation," USA Today writes that Verizon and Apple have been in "high level" talks for months about developing an iPhone for the Verizon network. Although Verizon's 80 million customers would make an iPhone deal pretty attractive to Apple, this news flies in the face of Apple CEO ...

Look, we don't want to get everyone riled up here, but the buzz surrounding the new iPhone is getting louder by the day. We think you may like to know what all the little bees are telling us. According to 9to5Mac and Business Insider, the new iPhone may be equipped with, among other things, an FM radio transmitter and new video-editing software. With an FM transmitter, iPhone users could ...

Rumor has it that AT&T's gearing up for yet another door-busting, riot-inducing summer filled with new iPhone hardware, which would certainly jibe with everything we've heard in the past few months (never mind the fact that June is officially Apple's iPhone release cycle these days, and indeed, AT&T's apparently saying that the June cycle is becoming "a tradition"). That's not terribly ...

Digg's Kevin Rose has a solid (but far from perfect) track record when it comes to Apple rumors, and he just drove the nerds of SXSWi crazy with his latest gaze into the crystal ball: he says the iPhone 3.0 will have copy and paste. Kev says that the interface is much like the magnifying glass -- you use two fingers to select the text you want, and then you can cut or copy. Sure, that's great, ...