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Filed under: Found Footage, iPhone, SXSW

Found Footage: Kevin Rose on iPhone 3.0 features

Here's a short video from SXSW with DiggNation hosts Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose, where Rose goes through a laundry list of iPhone 3.0 features that will allegedly be announced tomorrow during the Apple Press Event.

This video sounds rather alcohol-fueled -- at least it appears that the audience members, who are screaming out their most-wanted features for most of the video, were rather drunk -- and Rose has a somewhat checkered past with his Apple predictions, but his description of cut & paste on the iPhone sounds quite realistic.

He also states at one point that the point of the 3.0 release is to bring the iPhone's feature set to the level of the Palm Pre. If that's the case, then we should also hear about Bluetooth tethering and integrated MMS messaging for the iPhone -- which I, for one, seriously doubt. Of course, we'll all see what's coming tomorrow, and you can get your coverage of the event here on TUAW. Note that the video contains words that may be offensive to some people.

[via Engadget]

Filed under: iPod Family, Rumors, Wireless, Apple

iPhone details 'confirmed' by Kevin Rose

As our "geeky sister" blog Engadget is reporting, Digg founder Kevin Rose (no relation) has announced iPhone specs on his podcast. While you might take most iPhone rumors with the customary grain of salt, this is the guy who called the ball on the iPod Nano prior to His Steveness' introduction of same. We'll reserve judgment for now, save to note that this wee Frankenphone, yet to ship or be announced, has Bear Stearns anticipating six billion bucks of revenue for AAPL in '07. Such is the power of this fully operational iPod battlestati-- I mean, ecosystem.

The nitty-gritty from the podcast, via Engadget:
  • Extremely small form factor
  • Two battery design (with single charger) -- one for playing music, the other for phone functions
  • Flash memory: 4GB for $249, 8GB for $449
  • "Slide-out keyboard"
  • Possibly touchscreen
  • Likely launch with a 'singular GSM carrier' with CDMA and other GSM to follow
Hang those iPod Socks by the chimney with care; we'll hope that the iPhone soon will be there. (Just so long as Michael Bennett isn't waiting in my front yard with a .38.)

[Thanks Javi, Andrew G. and David C.!]

Filed under: Humor, iTS, Video, Podcasting, Apple

This week's Diggnation on Macs

*sigh* That was a funny episode. I just finished watching the latest episode of Diggnation, the video podcast associated with Digg. Usually the show is amusing, but this week cohosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht hosted the video podcast in a bar in front of a live audience and the ending became very funny and Apple related. They'd been doing shots alongside their beers and Alex accidently put his PC laptop into standby mode, and Kevin made a comment about how that wouldn't happen with a Mac. Alex retorted something like "Yeah a Mac just goes to sleep and you lose battery power" and the crowd started booing him.

Kevin: Yeah, Mac fans!
Alex: Wait a minute. Are there really that many Mac fans?
*CROWD GOES NUTS; Kevin gives Alex the bird*
Kevin: YES!
Alex: Wait a minute... That's why we only have 150,000 viewers!

Wrong, so wrong, but that's funny stuff.

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