“If history is any barometer, you can bet that Apple will once again raise the bar whenever it happens to release the 4th gen iPhone,” Edible Apple reports. “Naturally, the Apple Tablet is poised to take the world by storm in just a few weeks, and as a result, news regarding the next-gen iPhone has been uncharacteristically slow to trickle in. Still, there are some clues about what features Apple has been working to implement.”
Edible Apple reports, “One thing we can expect to see is a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash. Also, reports from this past November suggest that Apple is toying with the idea of putting an RFID reader (Radio-Frequency Identification) into the next iteration of the iPhone.”
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And PLEASE put in a front facing camera for video conferencing. It may be that AT& T’s network can’t handle that, but the rest of the world is using this daily with no problems…
It would work on WiFi too…
I want one now.
Why bother with 4G Apple? None of the carriers will have a network in place to deal with 4G, and if they do it will be in 3 cities at best by the end of 2010 or 11.
Camera with flash…err whatever.. Flash or not night shots look bad on any camera phone.
FM receiver? People still listen to radio? lol
Sure, why not a little earlier. The 3GS was an incremental step, a tick in Intel speak. The 4G will be a tock, a full architectural step.
4G means 4th generation iPhone, not 4G networking. We won’t see an LTE iPhone for at least another 1-2 years.
@JD
(sigh)
– 4G is referring to “4th generation” iPhone
– Camera “with flash” might still produce a shitty shot but better than “no shot” agreed?
– RFID reader is NOT referring to FM radio but to frequencies used by television remotes
Hope this is true, have a 1st gen and 3g waiting for upgrade!
Read what the author says about OLED displays(which the Korean source says will be in the so-called 4G iPhone). That one thing makes me believe this report has even less credibility than your basic rumor.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/iphone-versus-nexus-one/
This is the French in France we’re talking about here. In hindsight, they even got the Maginot line ass-backwards.
This is obviously the iSlate/iTablet they are talking about.
@Big Als
I really helps the level of discourse to demean people because of nationality, race or religion. Classy.
A close friend who is an executive at Verizon, just last night he told me don’t be surprised if I see a new iPhone at Verizon in this Spring. I argued him down that THAT was very unlikely because Apple ALWAYS introduces the iPhone in around June. Now I’m sitting here with foot-in-mouth after reading all the articles about an April/May release.
Sweden is the first country to have a commercial 4G network. It was launched last year. Judging from experience of the passed, it would make mo sence what so ever to have a 4G capable iPhone released before 2012. Which sucks for me as I am Swedish and would have use of it sooner…
@Big Al
OK, so you laugh at the French because they put up the defenses on the German border, never imagining that the Germans could move fast enough to invade Belgium first and come in the back door. They laugh at us because we invaded the country where Al Qaeda weren’t, while letting Bin Laden disappear into hiding for the best part of a decade…
JD: “FM receiver? People still listen to radio? lol”
Some people still have the communication skills to hear and understand actual news of the world. Sometimes, that’s even found on AM radio! AM? Remember that? I much prefer to have AM capability than FM. AM’s signal reach far exceeds FM and when you’re driving cross country, AM’s often the best option. If you just want your music, clearly you already know where to get it.
As Adul mentioned above we got the world’s first commercial 4G (LTE) network here in Stockholm last month. I can access it from where I work, but the coverage doesn’t extend to include where I live. The coverage map can be seen here: http://www.telia4g.se/om-4g
The biggest problem with it is that the only devices currently available that can access that network are USB modems that ONLY handle the 4G band, so if you move outside of the very small coverage area you have no access whatsoever. No 3G, no EDGE, no GSM, nothing. Not very useful at this point.
@GoMac
Dude, do some reading before you open your mouth…. you’ll SOUND less stupid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFID
@Adul
Sweden doesn’t really have a commercial 4G network yet… The LTE standard isn’t even complete yet! Verizon is racing against the clock to be the first in the world to do wide scale LTE deployments…
Remember the BS WCDMA/UMTS networks launched in 1999/2000? The original UMTS Rel 99 ‘standard’ had some critical flaws in it that would not allow the RF interface to operate correctly… The slow UMTS Rel 99 networks did not go wide-scale commercial until YEARS later.
If Sweden has a 4G LTE network, where are the handsets or laptop USB modems? Other than some non-standard prototypes…
The only 4G network that is commercial to my knowledge is the Sprint 4G network here in the US that uses WiMAX technology as opposed to LTE. Sprint has no handsets, only UB modems for it…