iPhone 3G Rumors

March 26th, 2008

Seems there are some iPhone 3G rumors floating around:

Wired’s Gadget Lab reports iPhone sold out in New York stores, leading some to speculate that the new iPhone is “imminent.”
Kevin Rose Rumor #1: Video chat. The iPhone will have two cameras, on front and the back. Will have a mobile version of iChat.
Kevin Rose Rumor #2: Will ship in June with GPS.

It’s worth remembering Rose’s original iPhone predictions were pretty off the mark. He claimed the phone would have a slide away keyboard and two removable batteries, one for the phone and the other for the iPod.

No offense to Rose, but when it comes to Apple rumors you pretty much have to play it safe and keep that fan boy imagination in check. Imagine what’s possible and then scale it back about 50%. Apple likes to get things really, really right, and features are introduced piecemeal to get folks to upgrade multiple times over the course of several years.

All I’ll commit to is it’s coming out sometime this year. And Apple expects to sell a crap load of them. If the rumors are true, of course.

Disclosure: I own a tiny amount of Apple stock.

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AZ of Mattress Topper 5 months ago 1 point
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I am thinking of buying iphone myself, as some of my friend have it and I am loving it.

If the rumors are true, i am gone buy IPhone 3G

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papa 5 months ago 1 point
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True or not, I'm enjoying the speculation. I've never been excited about a phone before until now. I was late to the cellphone game and have typically owned the cheapest, least cool phone once I did join the cellular masses. Now that I've pretty much abandoned my land-line and am "fully cellular", the potential move to a "smart device" is looking really appealing. I've been holding off for the 3G upgrade though. Once Apple gets this out there, I'll dive in headfirst (and Steve will have found yet another way for me to open my wallet for them).

Personally, I'll be happy with an announcement in the summer.

FWIW, my wife who has been a longtime PDA user (all Palm devices) is also looking very closely at the iPhone. The big ticket item for her will be a localized version of Epocrates (the drug database used by doctors). Epocrates already - wisely - makes the db available via the internet, but many hospitals have spotty wifi/cellular connectivity. Fortunately, Steve Jobs recognizes that he can deal another blow to faltering Palm and announced that Apple is working directly with Epocrates to bring this app to the iPhone. Once that happens, I can only imagine that a lot of medical professionals (who are heavy PDA/smart device users) will be migrating to Apple.

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If the 3G iPhone has 32 GB of storage, I plan to buy one too. That way, I can leave my iPod behind.

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Apple iPhone 3G to be released 4 months ago 1 point
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Apple iPhone 3G to be released| JUNE 2008

a preview

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTg_tN4pscQ

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so you're completely board of software in general? Tech? What aspect are you bored of? What do you like..what don't you like? - Zee at WeDoCreative
Robert Scoble loosing it more and more everyday. - Svartling
I never had it. - Robert Scoble
I think it's a pretty fair assessment. We've had a surge of innovation in the last year, which has been followed by a shed load of copy cats and mashups (your service + his service = my service) with a few gems here and there. Hopefully in time something cool will rise out of the "me too" brigade. - Slippy Lane
The only problem I see with web 2.0 is that it seem there's not many orginal ideas. I mean twitter comes on the scene and next we see 50 look alikes that don't seem unique enough. I believe there still is a vast area of ideas yet to be discovered but there are also a lot of compaines that will end up in the dead pool. - Colide81
The good news is that a lot of these companies on the list aren't very Web 2.0 ish... we're starting to see a new class of tech being trotted out, and a lot of it is post-Web2.0. I like where it's going. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I think it's good the industry slows down a little bit and looks back to see how to get more people into this world. The early adopters are too far ahead of mainstream people. But, that aside, I'm getting tired of copies of everything. I'm hoping to see some really cool new things this week. - Robert Scoble
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maybe I am alone in this but after digging into a couple of startups I am way more apt to side with Mark. The are refreshing, sure their sites could all be flashier but their -ideas- are sound. For my money, good design is cheap, good ideas are priceless. - Steve Spalding
What's wrong with you people? Web 2.0 is brilliant! Rumour has it they're bringing out a Web 2.0 film next year, followed by the Web 2.0 video game 6 months later. - James Robertson
Half of these companies, I thought, were not so much Web 2.0 or cutting edge, but transitional, bringing technologies to the enterprise. That's why they're willing to spend money on an event like this. And, Robert, I thought your post drifted from critiquing their sites to critiquing their products and business models. Not every one of those sites was awful, in my opinion. Btw, my hosting is down, but here's my synopsis of those sites http://www.google.com/notebook... - klecu
That was my issue with it, there are tons of awful models we rave about because their sexy, it has made it so when we see a useful ( albiet homely ) enterprise app we can't understand the value. - Steve Spalding
I doubt the web 2.0 film will make it to the cinemas, it will probably go straight to bittorrent. - John Cooper
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I don't know why people - in this case you Svartling - can't just disagree instead of launching personal attacks. - Zee at WeDoCreative
I am sorry if this looks like an personal attack. I'm sorry Scoble. - Svartling
@Zee (top): iPhone Apps, OS X shareware, looking forward to CS4, like the intersection of entertainment and tech (Amazon streaming video). Bored with social networking web2.0 stuff and web apps that are far inferior to desktop software. If any of these Demo companies are cool, please, someone else write about them so I can read about it later. - Jason Kaneshiro
I think maybe the state of the US economy and our current political turmoil might be having an effect on innovation in "Web 2.0". We're all kind of focused more on the essentials than the "fluff" of which most websites are, as much as like to think they are life-changing amazing things. When things bounce back we'll see more innovation again. - Lindsay Donaghe
Lindsay!!! Happy Birthday!!! :D - Zee at WeDoCreative
hahah Zee, I think you commented on the wrong post! :) - Lindsay Donaghe
Jason, that's a shame because I think we're really at the early stages of the web app phenomenon. It's pretty early days...Your probably doing the right thing by stepping away for a while then. - Zee at WeDoCreative
Lindsay, no...I just didn't want to comment where everyone else was :) I wanted to make sure you were reading.... :) - Zee at WeDoCreative
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