This was just a technology demonstration, not a product announcement.

Investors gave a muted response to the new product announcement.

"We don't have any product announcements today," the company said.

The shipment date at the product announcement was stated as June 2008.

A public preview was made available along with the initial product announcement on November 13, 2007.

Though none of the evidence is solid proof, taken together, it certainly makes a product announcement from Apple seem more likely.

Would the earthquake in Japan have any effect on future product announcements?

Those comments, and others like them, resulted from the product announcements that had been made in the months before the show.

The most interesting aspect of the product announcement was on the software side.

But most of the phone companies cautioned consumers not to expect any new product announcements until next year at least.