Analyst Predicts iPhone, new iPod and iTV at MacWorld
Gene Munster of PiperJaffray reckons that Apple is likely to roll iTV, a new iPod and the long rumoured iPhone at MacWorld in January.
"With one month left in what is anticipated to be a solid holiday quarter for Apple, we believe investors will start to shift their focus to potential new product announcements at Apple's Macworld expo on January 9," note Munster in a report.
In Gene Munster's report the analyst listed multiple rumours and broke them into categories:-
Almost Certain (next 2-6 months
- iPhone entry to manufacturing 10/10
- iTV release at MacWorld 10/10
Likely (next 6-12 months)
- iPhone to sport candy bar form factor 9/10
- Wireless widescreen touch-sensitive iPod 7/10
- iPhone with integrated keyboard 7/10
A Stretch (next 12-18 months)
- ultra-portable widescreen 12-inch MacBook 4/10
- radio transparent material in iPhone 3/10
- iChat Mobile 2/10
- Release of Leopard at MacWorld 3/10
100GB iPod Drive Revealed
On Tuesday Toshiba revealed "the world's highest-capacity 1.8-inch hard disk drive", which is the same size drive used in Apple's fifth generation iPod.
The drive is made up of two platters both employing perpendicular magnetic recording.
Foxconn to Manufacture 1.5m MacBook Pros
Foxconn, otherwise known as Hon Hai is expected to ship 3.2 million notebooks during 2007 after recently adding Apple and Lenovo to its list of clients.
According to reports Foxconn will manufacture 1.5 million notebooks fro Apple beginning in 2007, going by recent reports this appears to point towards 15-inch MacBook Pros.