“Based on a recent informal conversation my Dad had with his friend’s wife who works at Apple, he told me the next iPhone is likely to have GPS. Usually, my Dad’s friend’s wife doesn’t let Apple product info slip out until right before a new product announcement is made. This being the case, I’m betting GPS will be included with the 3G iPhone,” So sayeth Silicon Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget’s unnamed source.
“A second source agrees that the 3G iPhone will have GPS and thinks Broadcom (BRCM) is involved. This is also (very) unconfirmed,” Blodget mongers.
Full article here.
We’re not believing a word of this until we hear from The Wawa Sandwich Man.
Next iPhone will also track your movements, cash, and Blood Alcohol Content in real time. It will also shock you if you cuss or blaspheme.
Welcome to the 7th Reich.
Yipee
“likely to have GPS” … “(very) unconfirmed” … perfect! We can now expect a deluge of blog articles and responses acting as if this is a conclusively known fact. Ahhh, how I love the internet.
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And I just heard from a VERY trustworthy source (Steve’s hairdresser) that it will be able to broill chicken too. Now ain’t that COOL or what?
Yeah right, maybe they can start selling this thing alover the planet…
Ya, and my best friends brother-in-law’s uncle, twice removed, said his neighbor’s girlfriend knew someone who worked at apple too. Don’t hold your breath.
I guess Tony Soprano won’t be buying one…
Just my $0.02
This is a setup for disappointment and AAPL tanking. Only the inside few know anything about the iPhone. All the work on triangulation and the fact that many are developing their GPS add-on says Apple isn’t going to squeeze that into their unit at risk of battery life being sucked directly out of it.
GPS is low priority to faster bandwidth, etc.
yeah, I also heard it’s supposed to include a personal backscratcher, remote parking meter reload capabilities, vicious dog silencer and a host of other enhancements that “my source” wasn’t ready to disclose as they are covered under NDA.
You heard it here first folks!
Phones with GPS are bad news. I bought a sprint phone a little while ago, and I went into the menus and turned off gps tracking for everything but 911–there wasn’t an option to turn it off altogether. That seemed silly, so I called up sprint and told them I wanted them to turn off my gps for everybody. They said they coudn’t do it. With that phone there was no way to keep the government, “911”, from tracking me. I returned the phone and cancelled my service within the allowed 30 days and switched to an att phone with no gps whatsoever. gsm is better than cdma anyway.
I guess they can still track me based off of cell towers, but that is nowhere near as precise as doing it through gps.
Now you may wonder why I don’t want to be tracked by gps… fair question. Here in the US we can’t trust the Bush government to give citizens any privacy, and until recently it looked like congress was going to give telecom companies total immunity from being sued for giving George all of the information on whatever citizen he wanted with absolutely no warrant. I don’t want to live in a world where uncle sam knows exactly where I am all of the time, and since I can’t trust the government to mind their own business, I have to make sure that my phone has no gps.
I plan on buying an iphone as soon as the new version comes out, but if it is gps enabled, forget about it.
Let me get this straight: Jimbo von Winskinheimer notes that MDN reports that Henry Blodget says that an unnamed source says that his Dad reports that his wife says that her friend that works at Apple hints that the next iPhone is likely to have GPS. Is that right? Cause I sure don’t wanna be quoting an unreliable source!!!
Just heard from John Kerry. He is both for and against GPS on the iPhone
dads friends wife?!?
“Dark Helmet: Before you die there is something you should know about us, Lone Star.
Lone Starr: What?
Dark Helmet: I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate.
Lone Starr: What’s that make us?
Dark Helmet: Absolutely nothing! Which is what you are about to become. “
It will also cleanse your colon and massage your prostate.
I wonder what kind of “informal conversation” that guy’s Dad had with his friend’s wife … hehe …
face, your phone having GPS is the least of your worries man.
First, if you’re so concerned about privacy, you shouldn’t be using a cell phone. In fact, you shouldn’t be using a cell, cordless phone, wifi, or any other form of easily intercepted transmission.
I’m also assuming you have no credit cards, ATM card, or any other form of plastic that’s traceable.
To be sure, you should also avoid filing income tax returns, using your social security number (which means only taking jobs under the table for cash) and renting space with someone (also for cash) without an occupancy permit listing your name.
Of course, you won’t have a driver’s license (not a real one, anyway) or license plates.
That should about cover it.
GPS, 3G, Video, yada yada yada.
Great, but can I make a ringtone without having to go through Garageband?
Will I be able to do something as mundane as copy and paste?
Will I be able to remove all my text messages or e-mail message as once instead of one at a time?
Can I connect my iPod up and see it as just plain storge?
Can I synch notes?
Can someone send me an e-mail with an attached photo and I save the photo and delete the mail?
Can someone just MMS me a photo for crying out loud?
And before all you zombie fanboi apple-can-do-no-wrong freaks jump all over me, I’m not saying the iPhone isn’t a great device, just that it needs work, and many little things need to be addressed before worrying about all the Starfleet qualifications.
The new GPS enabled iPhone also will include handcuffs in the box and when the screen flashes red you are to put on the handcuffs and prostrate yourself on the ground with the flashing screen in plain sight until the van arrives to take you to the reeducation camp.
Second offense is Soylent Green time… The good side of which is that your molecules will live on in the educated and enlightened.
All hail the enlightened Left. It must be true i heard it on Coast-to coast, and saw it on CBS at eleven.
My wife has a friend whose dog is familiar with the matter, last time he barked at me it was very clear these rumors are not true.
@face
Enjoy your paranoia. If you use a cell phone, a “truly interested” party can find you. Most likely it won’t be the government. There are far better reasons for not have GPS on a cell phone.
apart from the touch screen gui and forthcoming applications, what do iphone version 1 and 2 have that isnt in a number of other phones on the market?
The other half of these rumors is that analysts will morph them into official press releases and then pontificate that Apple “disappointed” or “failed to deliver”, etc. when the rumors fail to come true.
My Dad’s friend’s mother’s aunt’s hairdresser’s cousin’s brother’s parole officer’s grade school teacher’s mailman said he heard that the next iPhone will let you make phone calls.
Wow! It must be true.
Being tied to one carrier severely limits how many iPhone can be sold no matter what it does and at any price. It slices, dices and does you laundry for $200!!! Great, but still, only a certain amount of ATT subscribers will buy it, and only so many people will be willing to switch.
The point being, Apple does not leave money on the table. This next generation will get 3G and a ton of new applications making the iPhone an amazingly flexible and popular product from business to consumer. Adding GPS will not increase sales to any large extent.
Rather, Apple will wait until next year to include GPS. This gives the iPhone yet another reason to be purchased all over again, and after two-years, perhaps that exclusive ATT deal in the states and in the EU with other carries will have expired.
Apple may have a 5-year contract with ATT to continue providing iPhones to them, but the odds are the exclusive portion of that contract is 2 years, no more.
In Summary: “No GPS For You! Next!”
I am here. And I simply say:
Nay to GPS. But something better. Something new.
GPBG. Geo Positioning By Google (or more affectionately know as Get Pucked By Google)
Yes, GPS is a huge concern because I know George W. Bush is really trying to figure out in his last year how to capture me and my family, and put us all in prison camps or send me to Gitmo…
Wow, quit drinking the coolaid buddy (but we all know the real reason is you don’t want your wife to find out how many porn shops you’ve frequented…)
The true worry is the carriers themselves. They would use this to pinpoint market to you, and that last thing I want is more ads in my face!
But back to Bush trying to lock you up, I’m glad you are probably onboard with Obama or Clinton, because we all know they don’t want more government involved in anything… No, no, they just want Government involved in running healthcare (knowing everything about your medical history), into your wallet, and into your Capital Gains taxes – so much for investment and making a living with any 401k or any other types of investment you have… No, No, they want government completely out of your life – nothing could be further from the truth.
I suggest a person like you vote Ralph Nader
@ shen
BWAHAHAHAHA – Spaceballs ftw!
jazz, sorry to hear about your accident. Now that you’re out of the coma, there’s a gazillion reviews of the iPhone on this thing they call the internet.
Basically, the iPhone is multiple orders of magnitude easier and funner to use than any other phone out there.
The little Nokia I have laying around surprisingly has tons of features. I know I found and used them during the 2 day training session I put myself through when I first got it, but I’ll be damned if I can find them in the 83 page (english pages counted only) manual.
1. buy stock
2. spread a rumor
3. dump stock
I heard iP2 will have fingerprint scanner instead unlock slide, nice.
Oh, and did you hear that iP2 comes with “Remote Start Your Car” app using BT (free BT-to-CarComputerLogic included)
It must be tough belonging to the 28% that still believes in Bush. What’s your secret? Booze or meds?
“I guess Tony Soprano won’t be buying one…”
You don’t need GPS, Tony knows where you are…
Oh, one more thing,
when sending note from Mail.app to iPhone, can received email populate my notes? That would be cool.
Oh wait, I heard that is also part of iP2
Re: Face
If you have a known or suspected foreign terrorist calling you from outside the country, hopefully the government will identify that call and locate you via GPS or triangulation. Many constitutional scholars have weighed in that there is in fact no constitutional violation. Personally, I expect my government to protect us and don’t see this as a threat to me or our personal liberties. FISA isn’t required. Some people disagree to the extent they could make a political issue out of it and released classified information. You’ve fallen for the propaganda hook, line and sinker.
Don’t worry though. If a suspected terrorist inside the U.S. tries to call you, due process rules and there will be a court order prior to triangulating your location.
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Personally, I’m looking forward to real GPS on my next iPhone. Hopefully, I’ll be able to turn off location advertising with a preference setting.
@simple
woah, i was actually just asking a question, is there any need to be offensive? its ridiculous that anyone that may dare to question the brilliance of an apple product gets labelled a hater or ignorant.
I have read the reviews and I have had a number of plays with a friends iphone, the touch gui is amazing and the promised applications and enterprise features should be great, i was just thinking that on a number of other fronts like 3g, mms, the camera, lack of flash support, gps, that the iphone is actually playing catch up
It may or may not include GPS, but I’m calling BS on the “friend’s wife who works at Apple” leaking this. Apple employees know very well what the value of new-product secrecy is, and this kind of information is kept on a need-to-know basis.
-jcr
I, Obama, vote “present” on GPS for the iPhone instead of yes or no. I love the gray shade of middle ground and I am a skinny confident funded rock star and everybody loves me…now if I can only figure out what it is I am going to “change” and still be tolerant of everybody’s tender feelings.
@The Wawa Sandwich Man – “Get Pucked By Google”
I really hope that’s a hockey thing.
GPS? Great! Now I’ll know exactly where I am when the calls get dropped….
RUMOR: Apple’s next-gen iPhone to have GPS
This rumour isn’t coming from Goatberg, is it?
Actually, a GPS enabled tablet would make a lot of sense. Fleet vehicles such as delivery, cable, tow trucks, and so forth could have them mounted to use as a two-way, mapping, orders, send pictures from a camera, Bluetooth to a printer, confirm payments, set up return schedules, logistics, and on and on.
Replace a laptop, phone, radio, GPS, and maps.
Buttloads of possibilities.
@ Jazz
It has an Apple logo on the back. Isn’t that enough for anyone?
I heard the most requested feature from 50% of the population was vibrate mode.
Here at my work, our delivery guys go through about two GPS units a year.
They need to be a separate device or vehicle integrated…worst case an add-on
to the iPhone or iPod. Currently, it is not worth the resource demands and the triangulation efforts show what Apple is leaning towards. They have
more important things to squeeze into the iPhone.
My wife’s cousin’s dogsitter’s step-aunt saw an iPhone at the store. She said it was neat.
Can You Find Me Now?
@ C1
Lord knows what it’ll do if you change gender.
Certainly no one thinks that buying new electronics will get them further off the grid? You buy more electronics to get better hooked into the grid.
My question is – with GPS and the possibility that Bush might be using an iPhone – will we be able to find where he and Cheney are hiding once they’re out of the Whitehouse?
Even cheap phones require GPS receivers for E911 service. These days, you can’t even get a phone activated at most carriers if it doesn’t have GPS. My phone may not have enough room for good GPS software, but at least it has a GPS receiver in it. To have room for the software and not even have a receiver must really make iPhone owners feel cheated!
I thought GPS support for E911 had been mandatory on all cell phones for some time now.
As for “face” and the rest of the tin-hat crowd, consider that the government can’t account for itself let alone track all of us (and if they DO want to follow you, GPS is the least of your worries).
The advantages of E911 should trump any paranoia.
Damn…all the married women at apple just received their pink slips…. Moshe is thorough…
We have a cat.
The cat had kittens.
One of the kittens went to live in Cupertino with an Apple exec.
The kitten phoned our cat two nights ago and said “The new iPhone WONT have GPS”.
I point out political points of view and what each party and/or candidate is wanting to lean towards, and it results in insults and demeaning bashing. I’m point back to my point on the Democratic candidates left wanting more government intrusion on our lives. There were plenty of DNC candidates available that were not to the far left, but the party always rules them out. The GOP appears to have gotten it right this time in picking a guy who actually pulls in the Ted Kennedy’s of the world, and can evoke change and partnership in finding middle ground and changing things. McCain is no Bush, and neither is no Reagan, but perhaps that is what the country needs.