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Apple computer maker may unveil the recently talked about iPod phone and reveal a new line of iPod music players "coming up" in the upcoming Macworld conference.

Apple co-founder and president Steve Jobs made a keynote speech this Tuesday (January 2) and released the statement. Prior to this information, analysts said they would not be surprised if Apple had a contract with film companies like the one recently signed with Walt Disney, which allowed Apple to sell its films. Online partner at iTunes online music store.

This past year has been a busy year for Silicon Valley's legendary business as well as for Jobs. Apple has accomplished a number of significant tasks such as Intel Corporation's chip agreement in most Windows operating systems, and releases new versions of iPods and screenings. Try the Leopard operating system, the "successor" version of OS X of the Mac series.

People have surmised a lot about the iPod line with more calling functions - many call it the iPhone, which will be introduced at Macworld this year. Even if Jobs ignored the iPhone in Macworld this year, there are still so many other good things to treat guests to a hearty party.

Photo: Reuters . Tim Bajarin, an analyst with Creative Strategies, a market research firm, said: ' What Apple tends to do is from the products already on the market, from those, the company will add features. new and more interesting '.

A typical example is the iPod music player introduced by Apple for the first time more than 5 years ago. Although from the late 1990s, digital music players appeared on the market but when Apple 'showed up', it still defeated rivals to win the top spot.

And since 'opening', Apple has sold more than 70 million iPods, along with 1.5 billion songs for 99 cents per song on its iTunes online music store. Not only music, iTunes is also the entertainment business center with more than 220 television shows and many full episodes produced by Disney.

Gartner market analyst McGuire also expects more details on Apple's so-called iTV device, which will cost $ 299 and is expected to ship in the first quarter of this year. With this new line of entertainment devices, users can put a lot of movies, music works, photos, podcasts and TV shows into their indoor entertainment systems.

Mr. McGuire said: ' The funny thing is that Apple declared:' This product has been published six months ago, but then we thought about other things we could add to it . ' According to him, Apple may add a cable TV tuner and a large capacity hard drive.

But most of those who are following Apple 's activities expect it to launch Apple smartphones, the music player has just called the phone and added many other features.

Wall Street analysts like Charlie Wolf of Needham & Co., Chris Whitmore of Deutsche Bank and Shaw Wu of the US Technology Research Agency in their customer mail all mentioned the upcoming iPhone device. The public eye of the iPod.

Mr. Whitmore commented: ' Only covering a secret veil and Apple's precautionary state around the iPhone factory has made the public very interested without spending any advertising costs. ' .

According to Deutsche Bank's forecast, in 2007 there will be about 1.1 billion mobile phones sold worldwide, much higher than the nearly 960 million units in 2006. Will the iPhone contribute to that record? , analysts hope Jobs boss will create not only one or two surprises in Apple's booth, as before, people are always impressed by his speaking style, often pause for a while. continue with the phrase 'Oh, more is .'

Mr. Bajarin said: ' Mr. Steve always has things that make people surprised '. And the technology community is also looking forward to the unexpected that will happen next week.

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