{"id":889,"date":"2009-05-08T21:45:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T02:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2009-05-08T21:45:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T02:45:23","slug":"iphone-hardware-update-for-the-summer-of-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2009\/05\/iphone-hardware-update-for-the-summer-of-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Hardware Update for the Summer of 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite rumor, Apple has a history of updating the hardware of a device, iMac or MacBook, and keeping the same price point.\u00a0 I expect, from the past history that this summer will bring 2 changes.\u00a0 New iPod Touch&#8217;s, the high end with 64gb hard drives and then scaled down 32gb and 16gb.\u00a0 I would expect the iPhone to follow with 32gb &amp; 16gb hard drives.<\/p>\n<p>I would also expect if the iPhone &#8216;Lite&#8217; or iPhone Nano for 99$ would be an 8gb device with the exact same hardware as the standard model.\u00a0 We will find out in a few weeks but no later than 2 months.\u00a0 I also expect that we will see something like a MacBook Touch or something in the 10&#8242; to 10.4&#8242; screen size.\u00a0 It only makes good sense to release a killer device that fills this space.\u00a0 No, not a phone, but maybe a tablet running OS X: iPhone or something that runs that on the cover and then drop into full Leopard.\u00a0 There is also a rumor that it will be on the 700mhz band that AT&amp;T and Verizon will be opening up in 2010 for all hardware and devices.\u00a0 I think that they will release the device for Verizon only and then after a year or even right away, it will be available on AT&amp;T.<\/p>\n<p>I am excited to see what happens.\u00a0 This Fall, after my wife&#8217;s contract expires, should be our iPhone &amp; service change.\u00a0 I am not excited about having AT&amp;T, my favorite carrier comes in a different color; however, I know my hardware needs &amp; can see the solution in the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">iron wil<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0pt\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite rumor, Apple has a history of updating the hardware of a device, iMac or MacBook, and keeping the same price point.\u00a0 I expect, from the past history that this summer will bring 2 changes.\u00a0 New iPod Touch&#8217;s, the high end with 64gb hard drives and then scaled down 32gb and 16gb.\u00a0 I would expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6,257,231,171,198,226,264,188,240],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-apple","tag-att","tag-imac","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-ipod-touch","tag-macbook","tag-os-x","tag-verizon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}