I just got off the phone with a friend of mine who is somewhat connected in to what is in the Apple channels, and he gave me some interesting news of what to expect from WWDC keynote tomorrow...
- there will be speed increases in the mobile platforms (not exactly sure what he meant by this, but just passing it on.)
iPhone update will be incremental, not Apple-tastic. Features in new iPhone "as I understand it" are as follows:
- faster 3G, but with a caveat... the radios are faster, but the processors cannot quite keep up with the new bump in speed. I asked if the processors are the same as the current 3G, the answer I got was no, the processors are new and faster, but cannot quite maximize the bump from 3.6 to the 7.2 mbps rate at this time. Seems kind of weird to me. Sounds good for gamers and not so good for mobile ichat hopes.
- no front facing video camera... no video chat... the camera has been updated, will have higher resolution and it will be able to record video. He didn't mention if the lens is variable focus.
- size dimensions and overall form will remain essentially the same.
- there will be some surprises in 3.0 software.
That is about all I got from this call, other than what he had mentioned to me before which I found interesting...
"Since you already have the iPhone 3G, you might be happy in waiting another year for the NEXT next-gen iPhone... that'll be the really cool one that you want!"
As a side note for credibility, in January of this year, he told me that there would be a new Mac Mini released in March (correct), a new iPhone in June (we'll see), a Mac Tablet early next year, but more interesting was that he said Apple will introduce "a completely new, really amazing product that you haven't heard about" in the Fall of this year.. in time for the Holidays. I can't wait to hear what that one is.
I just thought I would pass these rumors along to anyone interested. We will know if these are right in a few hours.
- there will be speed increases in the mobile platforms (not exactly sure what he meant by this, but just passing it on.)
iPhone update will be incremental, not Apple-tastic. Features in new iPhone "as I understand it" are as follows:
- faster 3G, but with a caveat... the radios are faster, but the processors cannot quite keep up with the new bump in speed. I asked if the processors are the same as the current 3G, the answer I got was no, the processors are new and faster, but cannot quite maximize the bump from 3.6 to the 7.2 mbps rate at this time. Seems kind of weird to me. Sounds good for gamers and not so good for mobile ichat hopes.
- no front facing video camera... no video chat... the camera has been updated, will have higher resolution and it will be able to record video. He didn't mention if the lens is variable focus.
- size dimensions and overall form will remain essentially the same.
- there will be some surprises in 3.0 software.
That is about all I got from this call, other than what he had mentioned to me before which I found interesting...
"Since you already have the iPhone 3G, you might be happy in waiting another year for the NEXT next-gen iPhone... that'll be the really cool one that you want!"
As a side note for credibility, in January of this year, he told me that there would be a new Mac Mini released in March (correct), a new iPhone in June (we'll see), a Mac Tablet early next year, but more interesting was that he said Apple will introduce "a completely new, really amazing product that you haven't heard about" in the Fall of this year.. in time for the Holidays. I can't wait to hear what that one is.
I just thought I would pass these rumors along to anyone interested. We will know if these are right in a few hours.
