I may have been wrong with my prediction of the next iPod product. I had forgotten about the possibility of the iPod Mobile Phone. This is realistically not an area that Apple have got into in the past all that much. Their previous Motorola ROKR phone was a disaster with only 100 songs beingl able to be uploaded to it. But now, Australian IT is reporting that Apple have applied for a number of trademarks in the USA. They include phrases such as ‘Mobile Me’ covering areas including computing devices, mobiles and more.

According to The Register, Apple may be sacrificing battery life for speed with their new MacBook intel based laptops. The G4 based iBook has a battery life for the 15″ version quoted at 5.5 hours. There is no such claim made by apple on the MacBook. My guess is that it would be about half this.