On Wednesday, November 28, 2001, at 01:52 , James Witte wrote:
>
>> QuickTime player, and email device. It's also reported that a bunch of
>> engineers from the old Newton group worked directly on the internal
>> workings of the iPod.
>
> *Very* interesting.. Although for a PDA, the iPods screen seems
> awefully small for anything more than a phone book (think REX) If it
> had
> a touchscreen built-in, I might just buy one now, knowing that they
> could
> release a firmware upgrade, or maybe someone will figure out how to hack
> it (unlikely, the Newton was more documented internally than the iPod is
> AFAIK, and it hasn't been hacked substantially)
Oh well ...
just let me know if you spot any Motorola/Nokia/Ericsson engineer join
Apple, as that will undoubtedly be proof enough that Apple will soon
start making mobile phones, or will it not ?!
rgds
BK
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