Revisiting the Rumors: Rebecca Runkle proved right

About a month ago, AppleInsider reported that Morgan Stanley analyst Rebecca Runkle's research note detailed her findings from unnamed inside sources. Her predictions were:

4GB and 8GB models, priced at $599 and $649, although she suggested that a slightly lower list price would be a conservative guess.
Full screen 3.5" LCD about 0.4" thick with a virtual click wheel and soft touch design.
Metal casing, similar to the nano, in multiple colors.
Camera, digital audio playback, video, e-mail and calendar.
Most likely carrier: Cingular.

Pretty accurate stuff, wouldn't you say?

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Source: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2305

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Ante Vukorepa

Not only isn't there a virtual clickwheel, but there are no gestures that even look vaguely circular. All navigation is done with "flicks" and "pinches".

Take a look at the walkthroughs on Apple's official iPhone pages. So Bart is 100% right - NO SOUP... i mean virtual clickwheel for you!

January 10 2007 at 6:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rickster

Anyone else notice that EA are releasing their first games for iPods?

Certainly they'll be here too.

January 09 2007 at 10:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bart Lee

mgkwho-

Jobs didn't say they were including those three things. He was referring to the input device for each of Apples "revolutionary" products.

Mouse = Mac
Click wheel = iPod
Multitouch = iPhone

No virtual clickwheel, sorry.

January 09 2007 at 10:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

norebonomis

ambient light sensor
accelerometer
proximity sensor

wtf. but only first party software???

who cares! multi-touch!

January 09 2007 at 10:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony C

Yep. It kinda looks like the Flamingo, but also looks somewhat like a oversized Apple earbud without the wire and in black.

http://www.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/01/mwk17wm.jpg
http://www.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/01/mwk19wm.jpg

January 09 2007 at 9:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mgkwho

Ante Vukorepa-

The virtual touchwheel is built into the fact that the whole screen is touch sensitive.

I'm sure there is a gesture to treat it like a scroll wheel. They wouldn't want to abandon it just yet. Remember, Jobs proclaimed three technologies built into the thing: a mouse, click wheel, and multi-touch.

What was that second thing?

Oh, yeah. A click wheel.

Sounds like a virtual click wheel to me.

-=|Mgkwho

January 09 2007 at 9:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Query

josh, watch the keynote. It's a really small device that hangs from your ear.

January 09 2007 at 9:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Josh

Did anyone else notice that Apple mentions an Apple-designed bluetooth headset on their iPhone sight? From the iPhone "high-tech" wireless section:

"and Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR, which links to Appleâ€™s new, remarkably compact Bluetooth headset."

Where are the pictures of this?

January 09 2007 at 9:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ante Vukorepa

Not that accurate, actually.
I'm sure it looks pretty accurate in hindsight, but let's break things down for a moment here...

+1 4 GB, 8 GB
-1 price (wrong, vague)
+1 screen
+1 thickness
-1 virtual click wheel
-1 soft touch
-1 metal casing similar to nano
-1 multiple colors
0 camera, playback, video, email, calendar (find me a phone that don't do those)
+1 most likely carrier
--------
TOTAL: -1

Not much of a score, eh? :)