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Visitors of the Airport Express Page on Switzerland’s online Apple Store may notice that they are greeted with a description of the Airport Express that clearly identifies it as a new model, as reported by MacGeneration.

“Connect to the Internet, print, and share music from iTunes with any room in the house. Everything without wires. Now with 802.11n as standard,” the description (which has now been removed) read, translated from its original French.

Apple promises as much as five times the speed as the earlier 802.11g standard with the new Airport Express, which is used by the current model for sale from Apple. The price, core USB printing, and disk sharing features also appear to be the same as the older model.

Apple is not known to make mistakes on any of its online stores, and while this possible leak is potentially real, it can also be some sort of joke or error on Apple’s part. Apple has now removed most of the “leaked” information, meaning that they might not have meant to display it in the first place.

The (accidental?) slip has not appeared on any of Apple’s other international online stores but would signal the likely change of the Airport Express hardware, which has remained the same since it was introduced by Apple in June 2004.

This is by no means a guaranteed outcome, but an Apple representative I spoke with seemed very confident that we will see an update from Apple very soon.

I had called Apple about my MacBook Pro. About every 4 times I put it to sleep, it would wake up, but the screen would not come on, and then it would require a force shutdown. Upon reboot, It would tell me that Mac OS X has shutdown unexpectedly. I assume it had a kernel panic, though I couldn’t verify because the screen wasn’t on.  I was also having a problem with using my MacBook Pro in closed lid mode with my external display. As I thought, the Apple rep confirmed that these problems were related. There was apparently a specific run of MacBook Pros with this issue.

Where it got interesting is when he told me that I had two options: either I could do an Archive and Install, or I could wait for the next update. “Oh, great,” I thought, “Either move back to a buggier OS version, or just wait for who-knows-how-long.” Then the Apple rep said, “the update should be coming out very soon.” I asked what that meant, a few months? A few weeks? A few days? His response: “I’m surprised it’s not out yet.”

His advice was to check software update every couple of days.

Here’s what I think is safe to assume, assuming he has the correct information: An update is coming out within the next week or two for Leopard. It is most likely Mac OS X 10.5.3, given that the other solution was to move back to 10.5.0, implying that the problem stems from 10.5.2. Thus, 10.5.3 would logically be the problem solver. And lastly, it fixes this (rather large) MacBook Pro problem, as well as logically bundling other bug fixes.

Start checking Software Update!

GearLive have caused quite a stir in the internet recently, after posting a video that showed iPhone Firmware version 1.1.3 functioning. GearLive has answered some of the questions that viewers have left on their forums - concerning all sorts of matters. The biggest question for me is whether to believe this or not - it looks so real that it must be true - but is it? It’s obvious that 1.1.3 is not complete yet, as Andru mentioned that it has crashed several times; it even crashed in the video. Maybe this firmware is just a tester from Apple and some features may be removed. The 3D graphics looked nice, but slowed the system down - so maybe Apple will be lighter on those in the full release.

Some interesting questions are answered by Andru, which we hope are answered truthfully. Some little things that users want like increasing the ring volume, bringing A2DP support and saving files to disk are still missing. Let’s hope for 1.1.3 to be released at MacWorld this year - maybe with an early release of the developer’s SDK.

Via [TUAW]

A fellow Appletell writer, Michael Mistretta, came across a great little find today. It seems Apple Canada may’ve made a slight mistake when they were updating their workshop list and happened to leave in an iPhone workshop to help you get it set up. Oops.

Our bet is the phone will launch on the 9th, but this could always be a typo or a hype generator. Only time will tell. The one thing we are sure of is that when it does launch, it will launch with the Rogers network in Canada.

Read [Apple.ca]

Some eagle eyed Apple fanboys happened to be surfing the Apple online store when they came across this. Just another Incase Leather Sleeve for iPod touch right? Not really. Look at the description, “Custom fit for 80GB and 160GB iPod touch models.” Is this a leak on Apple’s part, or just a typo. Many were disappointed when Apple released the iPod Touch with flash instead of a HDD, because they wanted lots of storage. I think this was just a typo though. Someone who got the iPod Classic mixed up with the iPod Touch.

Via [Gizmodo]

There have been a lot of rumors circulating lately over the redesign of Apple’s iPod Video as well as the iPod nano. A picture appeared today on the brokenflicker blog portraying what is said to be the new iPod nano.

The device shown looks a lot like images shown in previous rumors, and features a Beatles album on the cover. It should be interesting to see how this pans out, and only time will tell if this really is the new iPod nano. Looks like we’ll have to wait until Wednesday to find out if this is true or false.

On a personal note, I’m actually a lot more excited about the 6th generation iPod coming out.

Via [Broken Flicker]

Just the other day we posted a picture of what is supposedly the new UI for the upcoming 6G iPod. MacRumors broke the story first, but soon removed the image, essentially proving it was, in fact, real. Soon after the image there was a video spread around YouTube of the UI in action but it was also taken down.

The only site I could find with the video still in place was UNEASYsilence. Check out the video, and let us know what you think of the supposed new UI.

Read [UNEASYsilence]

According from an internal email leaked from Apple today, there will be a speech, presented by Steve Jobs, taking place at Apple “Town Hall.” The announcement is directed at all Apple employee’s and regards the iPhone launch. The speech will take place at 11am today, and it shouldn’t be too long before that speech is somehow leaked online.

From: Steve Jobs
Date: June 27, 2007 1:47:55 PM PDT
To: [redacted]
Subject: Town Hall Meeting Tomorrow

Team,

We’re launching the most revolutionary and exciting product in Apple’s history this Friday. And given Apple’s legacy of breakthrough products, that’s saying a lot.

I’d like to get together and share my thoughts about this amazing moment for our company. So please join me for a company-wide communications meeting tomorrow, Thursday, at 11:00AM in Town Hall.

This meeting will also be broadcast to other Apple campus locations. Please check [redacted] for details.

See you there,

Steve

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Via [Engadget]