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HYPE IS JOBS ONE Steve Jobs (Photo: Getty Images) Chatter among Apple geeks over the new features and upgrades the phone may or may not include has already reached a fever pitch. What we do know: It's a 3G phone, meaning a shift in Internet speed akin to going "from dial-up to broadband." USA Today also confirms a rumor that first emerged in April that Apple is dropping the price of the unit from $399 to $199. (The $199 price is being subsidized, presumably by AT&T as an incentive for non-subscribers to sign up for the service.) But there's still plenty we don't know. For one, whether or not the device will come equipped with GPS: (Endgadget says yes, Macscoop says no, but allows that Apple may release a higher-end model that does have the mapping service.) It's also unclear whether the phone will have video-conferencing capabilities. (This time, Endgadget says no, but Digg founder Kevin Rose says it will.) Most importantly, no one knows exactly when you'll be able to buy the thing. "Several thousand" have supposedly been shipped, but Apple isn't expected to ramp up production until the middle of this month, meaning the phone won't likely be available for at least a week. (AT&T employees have actually been prohibited from taking summer vacation between June 15 and July 12, which jives with this theory.) If that's the case, we hope the 60 or so people who are currently camping outside Apple's flagship Manhattan store on 5th Avenue in the 97-degree heat brought plenty of water. 
With all eyes in the mobile world on Apple this week I thought the time was right to talk about what we believe is the best way to conduct a mobile web search on a device like the iPhone...a device with a rich, full screen, touchscreen only. Namely: Voice search. You say it, our speech recognition (running on a server) produces text, the text automatically dumps into the search engine that's the subscriber's choice (Google, AOL, MSN, etc.), the search engine returns results. Or via voice, search for any content from your local iTunes playlists. Using the Apple developer kit, we've been hard at work developing impressive technology that make the iPhones capabilities even more powerful. Voice search. Song search and selection. At the touch of a button and simply by saying the word. Over the next few days - as the excitement mounts for the WWDC - we'll be sharing more and more details here on our blog. For now though, I think all of us should sit back, relax and enjoy the show. Of course, we believe the most powerful use of speech would be running on the iPhone itself (vs a remote server) and made available to the developer community via iPhone's SDK APIs. -Nuance (www.nuance.com) Posted by: MH on June 9, 2008 11:44 AM Well, I'm not wireless yet, but I am a mobile content provider, and I''ll come over to your house and berate you for $19.99. Plus roaming charges where applicable. Posted by: KarenUhOh on June 9, 2008 12:04 PM Can someone tell me what the fuck the dude in the first comment was saying? Posted by: Balk on June 9, 2008 5:34 PM Advertisement |
    
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