!Igncap and here is what we’ve come up with. The basic conclusion is that if you can hold off on buying a phone or a laptop, you should. Too many announcments are coming up:
- iPhone v2. This is probably the biggest announcement, but v2 software is supposed to come with an updated iPhone. Many rumors about what that will have. v2 itself will allow officially downloadable apps, multiple mail delete (yeah!), bonjour so you can connecto other wifi, full-screen mode safari, PowerPoint vewing, contact search. The biggest rumor is AT&T will subsidize the phone, so it will be as low as $200. Yeah!
- Blackberry Bold. This is Blackberry’s answer to the iPhone v2. It will support HSDPA/UMTS/3G (will the phone guys ever give us pronounceable acronyms) which basically means 500Kb-800Kpbs instead of the 100-300Kpbs we see now with 2.5G/EDGE. It is 802.11a/b/g (why a?), 480×320 resolution screen, 624MHz processor (they need it to be faster) and be about the same size 4.5”x2.6”x0.5” and weight 4.7 oz. Looks like a good OK update for the Blackberry.
- MacBook Air was just out in February, but it looks like there will be an update at some point to get it to Montevina. This would allow a cooler processor but will probably stay at 1.6/1.8GHz.
- MacBook. The MacBook Pro is really too big while the MacBook Air is too expensive. So we are going to try to delay notebook purchases as much as possible, but right now, it look like the MacBook will get a 3Q Cal2008 release and then in Cal2009 gets the really nice LED screen that the MacBook Air has. Hopefully by then the solid state disks will migrate down as well. The last update was in February 2008 and in June 2008, we expect to see the Montevina from Intel arrive.
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