So what’s going to be up with the World Wide Developer Conference starting August 7th, less than a week away? One thing that we know for certain is that Leopard (Mac OS X 1.5) will be revealed, and we’ll know what’s really going to be going on with the new OS that will come out opposite Vista. But what else?

The common knowledge answer is that the new Mac Pros, with the newest and fastest Intel chips, will be released, completing Apple’s switch to Intel. Apart from that, an upgrade for the iPod Nano. However, Robert Scoble suggests that there will be a lot more:

Speaking of Apple, they are readying a dizzying amount of new products. I wish I could camp out at an Apple store during the World Wide Developer Conference on August 7th. I wish I could say more, but that’d get me sued by Steve Jobs and I don’t need that kind of heck right now.

A “dizzying amount of new products”? Well, people have been talking about the iPhone (still considered a long shot–they’ve failed to materialize for years now), and maybe a movie download/rental service. But what the heck else could there be? The full-screen “no-touch” video iPod isn’t expected to come out until early next year. There are rumors of iChat going VoiP a la Skype, but fewer expect that than expect the iPhone.

Could Leopard, the Mac Pros, a small iPod upgrade, movie downloads, and the iPhone be considered “a dizzying amount”? Is more coming than we’ve heard of? I would guess that Scoble is either over-estimating or is too easily impressed.

Possibilities are covered here, a wish list here, and a WWDC Bingo game is offered here.

Update: Engadget has a story on what might be the iPhone, called “iChat Mobile,” with photos. (A subsequent video that got people excited is now shown up to be a fake–a printout of the iPhone mockup on glossy paper cleverly folded to look like a real device in a low-quality video.) Also, here’s another WWDC rumor roundup, and here is perhaps the best.

FWIW, Scoble is also suggesting that Vista might indeed be pushed back again (or at least that it should be pushed back), perhaps by as much as six months. Roger Kay tends to agree, and all these people do as well. The reason is that there are still to many problems, mostly in speed, user interface issues, driver issues, and application compatibility problems. I have my doubts, though–I think that Microsoft would be hurt more by another six-month delay than by releasing a buggy OS. After all, both problems are expected by everyone, but the buggy OS is less apt to damage Microsoft’s image than pushing back the release date, an issue that already has Microsoft in the position of marketplace laughingstock.