“The next major revision of the iPhone, expected during this year’s World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 9, could be a major disappointment for those who were expecting more than 3G connectivity on this new model,” Alexandros Roussos reports for MacScoop.
“Sources who can be trusted told MacScoop that the next iPhone will of course have 3G connectivity, but not much more, as it will lack built-in GPS chip and include the same old 2Mpixel digital camera,” Roussos reports.
“Unless there is a second super-secret higher-end model, the two probably most requested features made by current and potential iPhone customers won’t come as soon as expected,” Roussos reports.
Full article here.
I actually find this more believable than the all the pie in the sky updates PLUS 22% thinner with longer battery life.
heretic!
Man, that bites about the camera since the current one pretty much sucks! My old Nokia had a decent camera with flash even and that was from 2005. The iPhone camera bites if you’re taking pictures in a club or whatever, which is where one would often use a camera. We’re not all shooting daytime nature pics. Guess we’ll see next week.
Sheesh. What a kill-joy! That’s bound to have a negative impact on the stock price leading up to Steve’s next big iPhone announcement.
No GPS then my current iPhone will be just fine for another year or longer. After all, new software and 3rd party software will make mine seem new anyways!
How about the ABILITY to send and receive MMS???
And NO… EMAILING pictures is NOT the same or a good substitute.
I know that Apple is secretive, but if the only update yet to be mentioned is 3G, then there will be huge disappointment. The 3G addition should be handled with just a press release. Nothing to get to excited about. If you want $ in the shorthand before a large drop then sell some stock before Monday. (If this is all they have as unannounced upgrades.)
sounds reasonable to me.
first apple doesn’t care that much about features (2 MP is good enough they think), second, they don’t sacrifice battery-life for an gps-chip if triangulation is good enough for most instances. (they would argue). would be disappointing though. prepare fpr after macworld/wwdc depression.
Another stupid rumour, and a dull one at that.
Yeah, its the same phone, exactly, but its a bit faster. I dont think so.
If that was the case, why not simply bring it out now?
Apple is preparing an event, for frick’s sake – its going to have a bigger camera, GPS options, new software, better battery life, different case, video ability, video phone is possible, more than one version ( a high end and a lower end) – why wouldnt it?
People are going NUTS for this phone – and Apple is just going to bring out the same one?
NO, sorry, lousy rumour.
But it will have a G5 processor.
Why do people read rumors and react like they’re true?
Aldarion
you can send photos as MMS through email.
Every carrier has a “email” address setup for MMS. I just add that address to my contacts for people i want to send photos that way. So can send a pic to my friend on tmobile who has a razr this way and he will receive it as MMS.
Please tell me I can at least use the landscape keyboard in other applications outside Safari.
If you read the article, you find that the jackass BACKTRACKS further on in the article and says that maybe there will be all these new things, but his ‘trusted sources’ (his Mom) didnt want to say anything more.
What a pile of garbage.
I find this hard to believe, just as the I do the 20% rumor. I think Jobs wants to significantly boost sales, that GPS, second video chat camera, and higher resolution would not break the engineering bank. If the hardware upgrade only consists of 3G & more storage, I’ll do the unthinkable and stick with the fabulous iPhone that I got.
The most sensible rumor to date.
I sometimes wonder if the rumors that are too good to be true are put their by competitors and anti-apple people so that when the new product is released, there is much disappointment.
Actually I have nothing to say – I just wanted to be ‘Dave from Milan’.
Feels good. Now I know how ‘Ralph from Berlin’ feels.
Very cool.
Wake me up when they get Windows Mobile running on that thing.
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I think that this is very doubtful.
iPhone has been out for a year, and within that time, all’s Apple was able to do was to come out with 3G as opposed to Edge? Doubt it very much.
Apple knows that they have to keep on pushing and pushing. I call BS.
I think we’ll see:
3G
no GPS (perhaps external add on, or a car kit)
Slightly thinner
Better Battery Life
3.0 MP Camera, One on Front and Back
the what about all of the gps and geotagging references?
they wouldnt be there for the 3rd gen iphone yet
apples going to pull something big out of its sleeve
Who cares. Wait until Monday and then you can be happy or sad based upon Steve’s address to the faithful.
Who knows, it is all rumor anyhow
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I personally think:
3G / 3.5G
Dual camera (video chat front camera 2mp/photo 5mp rear)
Same basic design – Apple is know for upgrading features and maintaining the design – look at all their other computers.