RUMOR: Apple’s next-gen iPhone to be 22-percent thinner with 3G and GPS

Wired’s Leander Kahney claims to have a “hot tip from a programmer at a major software publisher who claims to have seen the specs” for Apple’s next-gen iPhone, including:

• 3G
• GPS
• 2 x memory (16GB and 32GB)
• 22 percent thinner
• Better battery life

Full article here.

50 Comments

  1. Also, the package will include an envelope addressed to Balmy @ Redmond with a Prosac inside, suppository shaped and a letter to monkey boy:
    “Dear Monkey Boy:
    The prosac is for you to get calm when you see the sales of Zune compared with those figures of the iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone. It is suppository shaped so you…
    Can stick it up your …
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  2. While I appreciate thin as much as anyone, I would appreciate a LONG battery life MUCH more!

    So Apple, yeah optimize and shrink the iPhone’s guts as much as possible, stir in all the battery sucking goodies you can (Bluetooth, GPS, 3G, etc.) but put a kick-ass, loooooooooong life battery in the damn thing!

    THAT will REALLY blow people away! Guaranteed!

  3. Dude, I don’t even think it needs to be thinner! And it doesn’t need GPS. It already has something comparable.

    Just give me a 3 megapixel or better camera, better Bluetooth interactivity with my Mac, and 3G capability.

  4. It’s already the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t have a keyboard, which means you can’t do email, which makes it not a very good business machine.

    Now, uh, it may sell very well, you know, mmmm, uh, we have our strategy, and I look at where we are, and I like it. I like it a lot.

  5. MacDailyNews – are you keeping track of all the predictions you’re propagating and will you give us a run down on who was wrong and who were BS come next week, for future rumor control reference?

  6. Just wondering. Maybe the reason they’re changing the name of .Mac is because……..

    They’re getting a TON of hits to http://www.mac.com and none of those people want a freaking .mac subscription. They’re PC users checking for Macs.

    In addition to the other reasons for changing the name (which was a corny rip off of… *shudder* MS)

  7. “Hasn’t Leander Kahney ever signed a non-disclosure agreement? Apple wouldn’t let her 100 miles from their next generation iPhone.”

    Leander Kahney is male and a father of four.

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