If you take ALL of the Apple rumors over the last 5 years and balled them up, I don't think the totality would equal the hype about what's coming this Tuesday at 10AM PT, at the companies iPhone event.
SO many rumors and girations are flying faster across the intertubes than the Concorde in it's finest moment.
Will the iPhone 5 be introduced along with an iPhone 4s and cheaper pricing/plans?
Will the iPhone 5 have the rumored teardrop shape, larger screen, 4g, 8 megapixel camera, blah, blah, blah?
Will there be NO iPhone 5, only a 4S and cheaper 4's?
But the BIGGEST rumor which has us at AutoSpies.com so jacked up about is the speculation that they will introduce the most amazing voice technology interface in history born out of their acquisition of Siri.
Check out what Forbes had to say about it:
"The Siri voice control system allows users to instruct the iPhone to ‘send a text message to Jason Schwarz asking him meet me for lunch’. Think about this capability in terms of safety. We all know that too many drivers send and receive text messages, now they will be able to safely operate an iPhone in the car. The voice assistant adds a layer of intelligence as well. If I ask my iPhone to ‘call Dad’ it might ask me whether it should dial his home phone or his mobile. It is also able to perform Web based search functions such as ‘book a table for two at 9:00 tonight’ or ‘send a taxi to my house’. Siri worked with Citysearch, Opentable and Taxi Magic before the Apple acquisition"
If this is true then it's GAME OVER for Microsoft SYNC and ALL other in car voice interfaces and the Spies predict they will HAVE to license the Apple technology going forward.
We've always said that interactive voice to text and vice versa in the car is the KILLER app.
You see it all the time, people texting while driving and it's VERY dangerous.
And we're ALL guilty for doing it.
With this new technology, is press a button and say for example, 'TEXT 00R AND 009…then it records the message... 'Agent 00R and 009 are WAY less cool than 001' and the system converts you voice to text and send to the recipient. When a new text comes in, it reads it and then offers options.
But it's not like old one dimensional systems like dragon dictate.
This can do contextual stuff like 'find map to 90068' and 'send directions to 001JR'.
So not only should the auto manufacturers be worried but GOOGLE should be worried.
Because if its as good as we're told, the masses using smartphones will be using APPLE voice search vs. Google or whomever!
Here is a video simulation of how it could work from MacRumors:
The Spies also continue to predict that ALL in car telematics will become 'dumb terminal screens' that will display what's on your smartphone which will ELIMINATE the middle man (the car companies).
Also, stats show 75% of ALL smartphone buyers are waiting to dump their existing phones to get the new iPhone 5 when it comes.
That is MASSIVE!
Whatever happens, the lead up to the Tuesday event will only get hotter as it inches closer to us.
Make YOUR predictions below about what will be introduce and what implications it will have?
And will YOU be buying or upgrading to the iPhone 5