Apple's iPhone Shuffle

Since the speculation on Apple creating a smaller phone , an iPhone-Nano or some such, appears baseless and random, let's just make something up.

Here's what we do know: Jobs hates keypads so he will put a regular phone keypad on an iPhone at about the same time he puts a floppy disk-drive back in the Mac. Secondly, Apple lacks voice-recognition-dialing software, otherwise voice commands would be in today's iPhone, which badly needs it.

Apple Sub-Notebook in Jan, 3G iPhone in May/June?

CNBC's Jim Goldman predicted yesterday that the rumored Apple sub-notebook has already gone into production and will be "unveiled" in January, 2007 at an Apple conference and the 3G version of the iPhone can be expected by mid-year.

Rumors claim this super-portable will use flash memory for storage, instead of a hard disk, and sport a 12- or 13.5-inch screen, making it extremely thin, and lightweight. Speculation is round half-an-inch, under 2 pounds, and a price of under $1,500. Here's Goldman's video.

The most widespread criticism of Apple's iPhone has been reliance on the slow AT&T EDGE network, rather than HSDPA.

Apple Claims to Have Invented Multitouch

Following Apple, Inc. CEO Steve Jobs' reported comments that his company "invented" the multitouch interface, stories have now surfaced that Apple is attempting to patent this approach, setting off a potential patent war with Nokia, among others.