The Guardian’s Charles Arthur offers up a handy “guide to knowing what Apple’s going to release next” and explains what to “expect in iPhone 2.0.”
• A three-megapixel camera
• Video
• WiMax (only about a 5% chance of this)
• 3G
• Better Bluetooth profiles
• Voice and speed dialing
As for “what won’t be there,’ Arthur writes:
• SMS forwarding. Americans don’t understand SMS, and aren’t about to start now.
• GPS. Expensive, sucks power, imprecise, and isn’t standard on the vast majority of phones, so Apple isn’t losing by not using it.
• a cheap one.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “The Macolyte” for the heads up.]
Why do we have to talk about WW2 politics on a mac site? – its getting in the way of all the valid comments!
I for one am glad that 3G is almost guarenteed to be included – I only get a 3G reception in my house!
Also, I would really love to have increased SMS ability – I use txting way more than voice, and currently have unlimited texts and only use about 10 minutes on my calling plan – so id like SMS to be a little more advanced, although it would make do as it is at the moment I *must*.
But – I would neeed to have MMS. I do not see why this was not included, as it is in the majority of phones released after like 2001!. Sending via email just isnt as good if your friend cant get their email on their phone. GPS would be nice, but id much prefer better bluetooth functions
Just my two pence
Please tell me what SMS is, and of what use it would be to an average Cell Phone User?
MDN Magic Word- “easy”
SMS = Short Message Service
See Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_message_service
iPhone has great SMS right now. What’s the big deal?
“Walk along the street listening to iPhone radio – IN THE UK?
Are you NUTS?
Mugged and beaten, iPhone gone”.
??? Must be horrible to live in fear.
just for the euro-american conflict ..
Someone stated that if it weren’t for the americans we would all be speaking russian or german by now…
I would suggest reading some history instead of thinking that saving private ryan (although a fun movie) is history.
Even if the Germans had taken over Europe, everybody would still be speaking their native language + german, instead of their native language + english, like now…. (maybe even native + german + english).
Secondly GPS is a system (American none the less, although Galileo is in the works) that many Europeans use and like to use.
No it doesn’t need “clear” line of sight to the sky, it even works from inside my glove compartment some times. It is really helpful and I know many people that won’t get iphones because it doesn’t have GPS.
Oh, btw, it’s more likely that the USA entered the war because of the middle east oil deposits, than it is because of it’s good will to “save” europe.
Finally, the people of the USA are normal folks right the rest of us. Their only problem is their “way of living” and their government’s misuse of it.
PS. I will certainly buy an iphone 2 if it has GPS and the Destinator platform to use it.
You mean… the war is over!? Finished? Why didn’t anyone tell me for chrissakes!?
America is almost bankrupt. Bush is fighting a war that can not be won and the liberated have long turned against their liberators. About 50% of Americans actually voted for Bush twice (2x)! So, there must be some truth in the “stupid / ignorant”. Thanks for the help in WWII USA and Canada and UK. But that was then and this is now.
Danke schön!
The camera is said to be only 3 megapixels? If that’s a user-facing videophone camera, good, but I’d want 5 megapixels (can’t really expect much better?) for a forward-facing one.
I’d definitely want GPS, so long as I could turn it off – as rumoured elsewhere – if it is power hungry. I saw a test of cellphone position triangulation on the UK Channel 5 TV’s ‘The Gadget Show’ and the best it could do in London was to get the position within one mile. Perhaps it was all those buildings. (I gather that GPS doesn’t always work well in built-up areas as well.) Also, even though cellphone coverage in the UK is very high, I’d still like GPS for those times when I’m up on the hills out of cellphone range. Might the phone store the maps for a chosen area so they don’t have to be downloaded there and then (out of range, remember?)
The big thing for me is contract cost. I’d happily pay a lot to purchase the hardware – but what I don’t want to have to do is to pay the same again, or more, in the first year just to operate it – and I want an umlimited data plan, also. £15 a month would be acceptable – instead of the minimum £35 a year iPhoners pay in the UK now.
. where would americans be w/o england? Speaking Navajo
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that would be Spanish, metamad.
¿Comprende?
GPS?
The phone GPS only gives you a relative location. If you need directions then use Google maps to get turn by turn directions or if you have a GPS then I use my iPhone to get the addresses that I need at the time and then plug that into my Garmin Nuvi. Works great
It will have all of those plus lots more
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Apple now knows ho to compete with Nokia and others.
re TowerTone
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Actually the indians of present US threw out the spanish, only keeping their horses.. so more like navajo, kiowa´ish, sioux or something
Hummer is a poet.
@Hummer
Here’s another Asian perspective.
When we see something of value, we should ponder it; when we disdain something, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
To get back to the topic of SMS.
SMS is very useful in many situations. If I’m in a meeting I will have my phone on silence and not take calls, but will read a SMS. If your buddy is travelling and you don’t know where he is and you don’t want to wake he because you don’t know in which time zone he is, send a SMS. It’s useful when you don’t want to be intrusive.
Kids use it a lot, my daughter is on here third mobile and wants an iPhone for her 14 years birthday. She will most likely get one…
In Europe when you cross borders you most likely get into a new operator and thus roaming and is charged an arm and a leg, use SMS.
BTW, did you know that SMS was just a neat feature made possible by playful engineers who designed the GSM system without their superiors knowing it and not something telecos implemented?
With SMS you can do other tricks too… Write -K- and then your message and send it toimisto your children who do not have their iPhone open. When they turn their iPhone on you will receive a message and you can call them and tell them what they did wrong.
I love my new iPhone that I will use few weeks before I get the new one and my mother gets this onw
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metamad
I have never heard that. No wonder the Mexicans lost the war…there weren’t any around….?
“• SMS forwarding. Americans don’t understand SMS, and aren’t about to start now.”
Yeah. We silly stupid americans. We just have this little thing called email that can do everything SMS and MMS can do but without the rip off premium charges.
I was told by Verizon that all phones sold in the U.S. within the past couple years has GPS built in and that it was a law.. So that the phones could be tracked. Not that the GPS has to be used for mapping, but that it had to be included so they could find you, in case you fall off a rock climbing, get abducted or are in the car in OJs next freeway chase..
Joking aside, isn’t this true and wouldn’t it just need software to make more use of what’s already there?
No GPS is a deal-breaker for me. The last time I used Apple triangulation to navigate via Maps, I ended up at Walgreens instead of Walmart!!! It sucks! No SMS forwarding? Come on! Everyone has that except the iPhone!
I don’t care about SMS anyway.. I want iChat instead..
I love all of these American bashing morons. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, Steve Jobs is an American, and Apple is an American company. If you hate the USA so much, what are you doing using their products?? Not to even mention that most of you tools would be speaking German right now if it weren’t for the USA.
” . . . most of you tools would be speaking German right now if it weren’t for the USA.”
Surfing on their iMachs?
@outlaw
If it wasn’t for us Brits the iPhone would look more like a Zune (we all know how awful American designers are).
— Gee, how long after the iPhone was released in the States did it even GET to the UK? WTF?
Without America we’d be speaking German? Last I knew the USA joined the second world war when it was pretty much over.
— Sorry you didn’t make it through your first 6 years of school
Maybe we wouldn’t be so anti American if you could stop invading counties for their oil and then pretending it’s to stop terrorism. How on earth is Iraq linked to the Trade Centre tradegy?!
–Hmm, talk to Tony Blair about who were the first people into Iraq. Clue: It wasn’t just the US.
Go blow up Hiroshima…. weapons of mass destruction indeed.
–Again?? Why do you want that?
And before you say “yeah but but but it stopped WW2!!!!” Germany had already surrendered when you were busy nuking those Japanese families.
–WW stands for World War. Japan was part of it. Again sorry about that education of yours.
SMS texting in America? Please. Why this guy would say something so ignorant is about as ignorant as posting an entire story about how ignorant people post prognostications and then prognosticate themselves.