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As the next episode of Flop Ya Mac Out will be posted after Apple’s media event (27th of Jan), we wanted to give our viewers/readers a heads up on some details of what to expect from the likely announcement of an Apple tablet.

Daniel says…

The tablet will revolutionise the living room.

Imagine sitting down on the couch, with your Apple tablet, and a cool glass of fig juice. The tablet will be your stable table. Hungry? A bowl of wedges with a sprig of lemon grass will feel right at home on your lap, too.

The tablet will follow you to the bathroom as well.

Simply turn it around so that the mirror-like stainless steel back faces you and shave to the soundtrack of your beard.

The tablet will change book reading foh-ever.

You like to listen to music. You like to watch youtube video’s titled “Hot chicks kissing!”. You also like to read books. The tablet will double as a multi-media bookmark for the masses, that will do oh-so-much-more than just saving what page you’re up to. Keyboard Cat/Harry Potter mash-up, anyone?

In the same way, the tablet will forever change how our children and children’s grand-children look at naughty pictures in the school library, disguising their e-porn behind a How I Was Made book. … Mm, bad example.

Jason says…

Clearly it will be a pill, not a tablet. Curing cancer with one orally taken tablet will be one of the most important things Steve Jobs has ever done.

Failing that, it should finally provide news conglomerates justification to charge for content, making the pay-wall debate online a null issue. My question though – if there are all these content deals going on between Apple and newspapers – what’s to stop people just navigating to their website? Tell me there won’t be a browser check implemented to funnel people towards the paid content app on the device.

I’ve heard that it has an inconspicuous stand that ‘tucks’ away. The user must stroke the unit and whisper sweet nothings for the stand to ‘come out’. This is said to improve the bond between man and machine.

It will also include a hook for wall hangings. Family portraits, porno, anything.

The device won’t include a flash, be that for the camera, or from Adobe.

It will support face detection. There!

Ha! A phone with a touch screen interface reported to contain a “2 megapixel camera, GPS, FM radio, EVDO Rev. A, 3-inch touchscreen (pressure-based), and microSD card slot… …measuring a 2.17 x 4.57 x 0.49 inches.”

Sounds like the new 3G iPhone. Perhaps. Sorta. Hopefully!

Well… It’s not. It’s Sumsung’s new “iPhone killer”. Stated in the video below, this thing is set to come out ib June. But will June be too late?

If this new version of the iPhone can deliver on most of the features above (as it really should have in it’s original incarnation – I mean no video recording – really!) then I think it’s pretty much still gonna shit all over the Instinct.

There’s no going past the iPhones sexy interface, and soon to be hundreds of applications and games to make the Apple touch platform the yummiest thing since a really yummy sandwich. That was surprisingly yummy in a rather non-sandwich way.

Sandwich goodness plus “seem-less” interoperability with the iTunes world of content is just part of what makes the iPhone a force to be reckoned with.

Fingers crossed for the WWDC keynote! Check out the promotional ad for the Instinct below. 

Within a number of hours, this ad could become extinct, irrelevant and just downright incorrect. And good laugh.

(via TUAW)

UPDATE: Well well well… Post-WWDC, it looks like Samsung, for now, will have the last laugh! That is unless Apple just wants to surprise us all with video recording capabilities closer to the release date of the new iPhone 3G!… 

“Tut tut tut, Apple” is all I can say…

iThink, therefore I am? I’m sure that’s been done to death, but let me demonstrate my current being in verse… 

If Jobs were not born

Apple products I could not yearn

I have me no lady

But I have a picture of you above my bed.

Steve Jobs, only because of you

Do I have something to look forward to

Come next Tuesday morn

I’ll wake not with a yawn

As I’ll wake at dawn

Not to surf porn

But I’ll open up Engadget and Macrumors too

To view the live reporting of the WWDC Keynote – Ooo!

Loins firm, eyes peeled for what I shall next consume

Sleepless night…

Sleepless night’o'joy.   

Channel Nine this evening ran a story on its 6:00 bulletin claiming that a “leading IT website” has announced that it is “Optus who won the battle to bring Apple’s iPhone to Australia.”

To add insult to injury, the image used by the Microsoft-affiliated Network Nine to compliment the story, depicted an iPhone running Windows XP. This was complete with Bliss background, windows taskbar, and Internet Explorer displaying the Ninemsn.com.au website. Apple’s Mail icon interestingly was been replaced by Parallels, a program used on the Mac to run Windows via a process called virtualisation. Nice.

Investigation shows that Cnet.com.au is the “leading IT website” that Nine is alluding to. Yet the article in question is no more conclusive than any of the other plentiful rumour websites. Cnet claims that “Optus is confirmed to be one of several Australian mobile service providers to be selling Apple’s iPhone.” This certainly isn’t what one might describe as ‘winning the battle’ for the iPhone.

The Sydney Morning Herald and later, SBS World News also jumped at the Optus story, providing little more details than Cnet, and just like Network Nine, failed to directly link to their source at Cnet.

For your fix of Australian iPhone and Mac news and opinions, subscribe to Flop Ya Mac Out with iTunes!

From Kevin Rose’s twitter: “another person confirming iphone rumors w/me (high lvl VP at a big company that works w/Apple) – “it will ship in June w/3G and GPS”

Sounds good enough for me to go “Woo!”.

Just givin’ Firefox 3 beta 4 a whiz around the track, and Gmail was being really unresponsive for me. So I did what any ‘experienced computer mechanic’ would do, and gave the page a few heart felt clicks with the mouse. That didn’t yield any results I wanted it to, but something unfamiliar and rather peculiar appeared from ‘out of the cloud’…

I don’t have the Google Talk client installed, so I Googled around to find out if this was a new feature or just an anomoly, but within two searches the only relevant results that came up were this this article which showed a different implementation of the inbuilt call feature, and this other one talking about the possibility of what I saw, coming soon.

Nothing happened when i pressed the new buttons of the box that sat bottom left in the web browser, and refreshing the page got rid of it.

Rather random, but perhaps I got a sneak peek at how the call function is going to integrated into the ‘chat’ box (on the left), when you click on a contact. Is this news? Or have others seen this too?

Feel free to speculate what the music symbol and purple circle are all about…

Hilarious! I just completed the SteveNote Expo game, and am “now ready for the best SteveNote ever”.

I came across it via Engadget – check it out yourself here!

“Try the game that lets you experience what it feels like to be Steve Jobs just before your Keynote presentation.”