I went to Apple.com - you can sign up to get more info when it's available. I couldn't find a mention of a date.
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June for the phone.
Pending FCC approval.
and Apple finishing development on the thing.
What?! A tech company showing off a not-quite-there-yet product? I'm shocked --
SHOCKED --
to find that there's gambling vaporware going on in this establishment!
I was suprised to see Apple announcing two (or three if you count the new Airport Express) products that you can't buy today and nothing that you can.
Yeah, Apple is well known for having at least one item in stock everywhere within days.
OTOH? If they say June and bring it out "early" they get press. If they hit some snag, and it comes out in June, they "hit the mark."
And no mention of iLife/iWork at MWSF for like the first time ever.
Does it say when they are available Sean? I'm posting from my phone.
Nope, nothing at the Cingular site, either. You sign up for more information, just like at the Apple site.
I was suprised to see Apple announcing two (or three if you count the new Airport Express) products that you can't buy today and nothing that you can.
I was thinking the same thing -- compared to a lot of big announcements, they've had a really good record for the last few years of "here's the new thing... and you can order it as soon as the network congestion clears".
I was a little disappointed by this keynote, especially given that it had even more hype than usual: the TV thing was basically already announced but it's STILL not available, and the iPhone, while awesome in many ways, is even more not-available, plus I can't make myself get excited about a phone (and even less, one with a contract attached).
(The latter may just be a measure of how much I loathe phones -- put the same interface wizardry on bigger capacity and sell it as a next-gen widescreen touchscreen iPod with wireless capabilities and I expect I'd be the first drooling fangirl in line.)