“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.
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”.