Usb 3.0?

As far as I am aware the issue is more down to the speed of the memory on the iPhone/iPod touch itself rather than the speed of the interface.

And to the issue of if apple actually put USB3 into the iPhone/iPod touch I am certain they did not partly due to it not being finalised but it would be pointless for a number of reasons predominately their current line of computer do not have USB3 support.

I am also sure that if they did it would have been discovered by now.

 

USB 3.0 is still an unfinished spec with no hardware chips at all yet (just the connector specs). It is backwards compatible with USB 1.1/2.0. It will use an optical (I believe) connector to pass data. It will probably be at least a year before the first hardware (HD's most likly) shows up with USB 3.0. So I would not expect it in even the next iPhone and maybe not for several more years.

 

The future is probably wireless USB

There will probably be a USB 3.0. Remember USB 2.0 did not become mainstream until 2003 and not in laptops until 2004. USB 1.0 first appears in 1996 so it took about 7 years just to go from USB 1-USB2 in the mainstream.

But I think the future will be wireless USB. People do not like cable clutter and wireless USB will be a perfect fit for the majority of devices.

 

We haven't seen the last of wired connections just yet.
Given enough time for wireless technologies to develop adequate bandwidth, and the cost drop to something mainstream users would pay, perhaps. I would guess that's a few years at least.

 

My Vaio notebook, purchased Dec 2001, had high speed USB 2's.
I think Vaio's are pretty mainstream

sue