Palm just wrapped up their webcast where they talked about their new Foleo. It looks like a laptop, but it’s more of a mobile email machine. I can honestly say after watching this, I want one.

Jeff Hawkins described a lot of the features about the Foleo, the biggest being a full standard keyboard and the instant-on feature. The Foleo only has two states: off, and on. You never have to wait to turn it on. The applications are always ready, everything is instant.

In an interview at the All things Digital Conference, Steve Jobs confirmed late June as the target timeframe for the iPhone. According to Jobs, the iPhone should be available in volume as well. We knew that the iPhone was based…

Straight from the the BIG man Steve Jobs himself.

Question: We’d love to write apps. Will it open up?

Steve Jobs: This is a very important tradeoff between security and openness. We want both. We’ve got good ideas, and sometime later this year, we can open it up to 3rd party apps, and keep security.

So what are analysts going to call the iPhone now?!

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Brian of Gizmodo is hard at work transcribing nearly word for word the whole dialogue between Walt Mossberg and Steve Jobs. I’ve clipped out parts of the discussion pertinent to MY iPhone.

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Straight from the the BIG man Steve Jobs himself.

Question: We’d love to write apps. Will it open up?

Steve Jobs: This is a very important tradeoff between security and openness. We want both. We’ve got good ideas, and sometime later this year, we can open it up to 3rd party apps, and keep security.

ITunes 7.2 has been released by Apple this morning. iTunes’ new version brings us DRM-free songs via iTunes Plus. The launch of iTunes Plus will offer all EMI tracks as either DRM or DRM-free. The tracks have different qualities and…

Glenn Lurie, a leader in the iPhone project at AT&T who is actually using his own iPhone before the device’s debut, said in an interview that “There are other things — you have the widgets, some of the Google applications that are coming — there are just so many things here that the price will not be an issue,” leading many to believe that Google Maps won’t be the only Google widget on the iPhone.

Might this be evidence that Apple is “pulling their classic under-promise and over-deliver move in a bid to capture a larger share of the mobile phone market,” asks ZDNet’s Jason D. O’Grady.