Short and sweet: Apple has announced they’re going to hold a press conference on Friday related to the iPhone 4. And that’s all they said. Now, this is obviously going to focus on the antennae issues that the media has been making so much hay out of, even as the problem has proven difficult to isolate. Some users who hold the iPhone 4 in a certain way have reported that under certain circumstances reception has dropped—some of the time.

9to5Mac is theorizing that this Tuesday event could be about more than just the MacBook family. Though Apple’s invitation was unusually specific (“The spotlight turns to notebooks”), 9to5Mac contends that iLife and iWork 09, as well as Blu-ray, could be present at the event. Though I’m fairly positive Steve Jobs won’t discuss anything at length besides notebooks, here’s what could happen as an update on the side…

9to5Mac has been teasing for about a year in internet time about the rumored “Brick” codename, and today they came out and told us what it is…a manufacturing process. Now, if you are like me, you’re pretty crazy disappointed, but read on. This manufacturing process is pretty darn cool.