“When TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington asked AT&T iPhone chief Ralph de la Vega what the iPhone of the future will look like, he got a little more than he bargained for. The two spoke in front of a large audience at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Wednesday,” Mark Sullivan reports for PC World.

“De la Vega let loose with a laundry list of future applications and usage scenarios for the device, which included the following: Before the iPhone wakes you up in the morning with its alarm clock, De la Vega says, it will have already loaded all of your daily news feeds onto the phone. It will also have already sent a wireless message to your coffee maker to get the coffee ready. While you’re sitting there drinking your coffee, he says, you might decide that you’d rather read your news on the TV screen; so with a wave of the device toward the TV, de la Vega says, you’ll send your news feeds wirelessly from the phone to the TV for reading,” Sullivan reports.

“Now you leave the house, and use your iPhone to lock the door on the way out. You get in the car. The iPhone starts your car. On the way to work, the iPhone continues reading your news to you using its text-to-speech function,” Sullivan reports. “Later on, at your office, the iPhone initiates a conference call between you and two potential customers in Japan. On the call, when you speak English, the iPhone translates it to Japanese so that your potential customers can understand you. When they answer in Japanese, the iPhone converts their speech into English so you can understand them.”

Much more in the full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Cascadians" for the heads up.]