If the next iphone dosnt have a real GPS chip in it, then it is goofy-assed stupid. Or, as Yoda would say, ASG

ITs q 1.5G iphone, and no where near a two. For ipods, a slight difference may make another gen, but with the iphone, its price and its uses, you really need to upgrade it significantly.

STACKYBOTRUS

@MFlick: I hope you are not serious. /condescending tone

WorkingOnYourInvoice

@mobilehavoc: YES! sometimes keeping things secret is pointless.
@omg-ponies: True, but considering how many of us hold off purchasing something waiting for certain features - rumors are all we got. Nobody wants to drop $400 on something that gets upgrades too soon.

digitaluddite

give me more memory! screw 3 gigs, give me 30!

MFlick

A 3G iPhone is good news, the bad part is that it indicates that Europe wont get Any iPhone untill May. Why do you hate us so Apple? :(

Oasx

Never mind 3G iPhone features, what will the associated plan cost? Right now, it's cheaper then most other plans because it's considered a phone, not a PDA (which confuses me because I plan on using it as a PDA). Anyhow, will the plan go up in price? Not that this will be answered anytime soon, but one of the biggest selling points of the iPhone is it's cheaper data plan and "PDA-like" functionality. If the 3G iPhone gained nothing additional but 3G and GPS and retained the cheaper data plan cost, it would really be the greatest phone ever as far as I'm concerned. 3G connection speed, GPS, Google Apps, 3rd party support, affordable monthly costs ...imagin.

newgalactic

@JJ910:

i'm not sure what carrier architecture means, but if it means you were a 3GPP consortium architect, then i'd like to take the opportunity to say that your architecting ability sucks.

if you made phones and not 3GPP architecture decisions (thereby acting on 3gpp decisions, but not actually creating them), then carry on.

drewheyman

802.1x support (wifi authentication). adobe flash. think at&t will do 3G for the same price as EDGE?

snapplez

I bet the 3G speed will be limited by the browser rendering speed

MrBlahBlah

OMG OMG, 3G iPhone gonna be the sexiest phone ever, again!

kittenman

MMS. Really. Frikkin MMS. Because my effin MOM has MMS and my fancy schmancy iPhone doesn't. Ugh.

Shikestarr

@VOLTRON80 FYI That "phone company" is the OWNER of O2 in UK and one of the BIGGEST communication companies in the world by number of customers.

nkm

what it will have is some kickass security shit on it to stop it from getting hacked quite so quickly next time around.

glibberthwix

flash

swervie

iPhone 2 this soon? I don't think so.

Well, as one of the guys who don't want an iPhone, never had the urge to buy one, and isn't thinking of buying one even if it drops half the price...

What I want on iPhone 2 is:
- 3G
- GPS
- Smaller
- more hack friendly... meaning homebrew/3rd party apps
- more space for porn. I mean, more space. not for porn.
- keypad.. even if it sold as an external acessory. Just in case I can't deal with the touchscreen one.
- 3 to 5 Mpx cam with VGA 30fps video and flash.

Yeah, guess that's it. Asking for too much? yes. But when iPhone 2 finally releases, I don't think this will be an issue.

I'll be getting my iPhone then... unless Sony Ericsson releases something better. I just love the W series.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@mSiqueira:
you forgot one thing:
Standard-headphone-jack!

mangochutney

hmmm, iPhony rev.B...

let's see...

. Stereo Bluetooth
. Easy Replaceable batteries
. JAILBREAK
. AnySIM / Any3G
. Insurance...

mSiqueira

Why Apple is 3 years behind other mobile manufacturers?, I mean, Apple only have 1 smartphone out there, they should implement the best, they proved price wasn't matter (remember the lines to get a 600 bucks iPhone)

3G is a 4 or 5 years old technology. They should have implemented it from the beginning y punto pelota. 50$ more each device?, no problemo, people always stay in line to pay.

It's a marketing trick to make another stellar anouncement of an updated model they could have produced from the beginning... Ok, I know! I'm repeating myself, I'll take my pills....

valis

@jonbrodheim:

"...steve jobs said in his keynote that apple's plans were to gain 1% of the phone market share which meant selling 10,000,000 units."

True, but he didn't say by when or with what version of iPhone.

"...they will not release a new handset before releasing in china and other countries...also, the us has had it since june, england just got it this month. Why would they release a new iPhone so quickly if the first one is doing so well???"

This is what I'm wondering as well, unless China doesn't care about Edge vs. 3G, in which case I could see a simultaneous release.

iSmote

@jawzxy: "@omg-ponies: ♥"
Seconded. Hilarious.

mangochutney

I work for a phone distribution company in lower Manhattan and while this would be a nice upgrade I still don't think I would go that route.

I am happy with the Nokia N95-3 and the HTC phones that I have.

maevro

ps. Oh yeah, the iPhone - ummmm, 3G, GPS, longer lasting battery 'cuz the chips use less wow wow wee wow, and , ummmm, yeah, like the guy above said, more pron.

banmojo

Let's think about it, apple is not going to release the next iphone so early. steve jobs said in his keynote that apple's plans were to gain 1% of the phone market share which meant selling 10,000,000 units. they will not release a new handset before releasing in china and other countries... also, the us has had it since june, england just got it this month. Why would they release a new iPhone so quickly if the first one is doing so well???

jonbrodheim

@omg-ponies: Dude, you made me pee a little bit in my shorts from laughing. And I'm seriously glad you're in a better mood :^))

banmojo

It'll take more than 3g for me to upgrade.

OGHowie

I hope it comes with an iPhone 1.0 emulator. I love that iPhone.

fmccb

Yoda is on 1 Bazillion G's by the way!

JJ910

i'll take the 3G, GPS, open platform for third-party apps that is NOT Safari-based, yes i will!

TonyRockyHorror

Yoda = TFSU

JJ910

@lastpulse: It's Yoda's way of saying STFU. Use Gizmodo's search, and you'll find the original article (cuz I'm too lazy to do it for you).

jawzxy

Can someone please tell me what TFSU means?

lastpulse

@omg-ponies: ♥

jawzxy

Freakin' Apple fanboys! TFSU!!! Bwaaaaa-hahahahaaaaa!

Oh... wait. Nevermind.

Hi! My name is X, and I'm a borderline Apple fanboy. I used to think that only fanatics would ever become fanboys and that it would ever happen to me. I thought I was better than that. Then one night at a party, someone offered me an iPod. I thought to myself, "Why not? If I like it, I can experiment from time to time. I can always quit if I want to."

I was wrong. Dead wrong...

After an iPod, Mac Mini, iPhone, and many other Apple related products, my wife started to notice the change. At first I denied ever have being associated with an Apple product. But she kept pushing, and pushing me. And then it happened. Before I realized what I had done, I shouted "I LIKE APPLE!!! THE STUFF THEY MAKE IS AWESOME! I KNOW I'M WEAK!! I CAN'T HELP IT!!! PLEASE, please forgive me..."

I am now in counceling. These days, I can only take it one step at a time. To help me cope, my wife bought me a Zune for my birthday. I pretended to like it, but secretly, it makes me feel dirty and like I vomited in my mouth just a little when I use it.

I am trying. I realy am. One day I hope to be clean of this horrible Apple fanboy disease that is plaguing me. Please pray for me...

MisterX

@mobilehavoc: I believe this is what their statement was a few months ago.

noonas

Will the warhead use GPS to detonate at the correct location? Apple needs to come clean about that before i buy one.

image18301

Its a great conversation piece and since I dont have one yet, I can ask pretty women if I can look at theirs. This is also a good way to get womens phone numbers, rofl. jk. (lmao) and take a picture of myself and put my number in it so they know its that sexy guy calling :)

foxinyablox

[google] site:gizmodo.com -iphone <anything else>

PJ_the_jackass

@omg-ponies: LMAO!!!!! hahahahaha!

Joseph

Who cares! Yawnnnnnnnnn! We talk about 3G as if it was something new (new for us of course). 3G has been around since 1999 (I know as I worked for 3 of the major carriers in US & Europe). I used to design the carrier architectures for these guys until I realized I was woring for the devil and gave them the boot.

iPhone = Fan Boys! There are a dozen products out there that can rival teh iPhone on 3G networks. The question is - will they cometo the US and educate us ignorant lot that there is a world outside US and there are products other than Apple that are way cooler and better.

We're looking at 4G in some Asian countries now.

JJ910

wish list: 3G, full GPS capabilities integrated with google maps, 16gb (or more!), better battery life!

chopstickhero

I love my iPhone, it RAWKS.

CT7

@omg-ponies: FTW!!!!!!!111!!1!!!!!1!1!!1ONE

I happen to know from an insider source that the next iPhone will use quantum computing and will store data holographically. It will come in 4 and 8 petabytes and will cost $199 and $299, respectively. It will be the thickness of a credit card and the display will be built using ground up leprechauns and carbon nanotubes. It will use quantum subspace communication with no theoretical maximum throughput, and will need to be slowed down as to be comprehensible to the human brain. The release date will fall on a Tuesday. Steve will launch it in a black turtleneck, jeans, and sneakers. He will not shave.

That is all.

WorkingOnYourInvoice

hopefully it will have some effin' power management, because I haven't seen a 3G phone that wants to last more than like 8-10 hours under normal usage. Forget about if you're traveling on business or something, and you're on a heavy usage pattern...that's the problem with convergence devices... you actually want to use them a lot.

Also, the next-gen iPhone should have a little better control over messaging, flash on the camera, and of course, more storage.

ecypher

I hope Apple and AT&T would release a 3G version soon. I think they will.

yoshi

3G on the iPhone is going to happen. Most people seem to accept that at least. As to when? May 2008 sounds right to me.

EmptyRepublic

@europria: Har har. I had a typo.

@mobilehavoc: I forgot to mention that the spellcheckers pop in for a visit. Someone gets called grammar-nazi. Then there are a few posts that look like they were texted in by a 15 year-old who misses his Ritalin. That's around the time people start calling each other "fanboi", the oh-so clever derivation of "fanboy".

omg-ponies

Meh

Tehrab

@omg-ponies: Who knew, new people listened to rumors.

europria

That makes sense, because if anyone knows about Apple's long term plans, it's some guy at a phone company in Spain.

Voltron80

I doubt FM will ever come to any mac device. and I really doubt the 25 megaton warhead since it would be too heavy. I just dont see it.

PDSM

@Dave Ryan: besides HD size, it will not have HD.. It does not have HD now, it has solid state flash storage

europria

@mobilehavoc: Hi. I'm OMG-PONIES. You must be knew here. The procedure is that someone somewhere comes up with a suitably plausible rumor which gets posted.

Then, we all yell at each other about how Apple (1) RAWKS!!!; (2) SUX!!!! (3) is a corporation that is only interested in making money - like all other corporations and (4) is better than anything of its competitors but only because of marketing.

Then, someone posts an internet meme like "the 2G iPhone is a lie" or "Will it blend?". Finally, people start throwing around Gizmodo memes like "TFSU". Everyone gets called a fanboy of some kind. Some people post "Meh."

Then the Apple fanboys clean up later with necroposts about how the iPhone RAWKS!!! The post makes the most-commented list and most viewed list and some other blog puts a trackback on the end.

At no point does Apple ever get involved.

omg-ponies

New one should have GPS. I'm almost certain it will do FM radio based on that new 3G chip that was announced recently. Look at the feature of that chip and you can see into the iPhone 2 future.

moo083

A flux-capacitor and a 25 megaton warhead.

av8thor

What else do you think iPhone 2 will have, other than the obvious boost in HD size?

Porn, and lots of it!

Dave Ryan

@Kaiser-Machead: It's great.

I wish these stupid iPhone rumors would be dispelled once and for all. All Apple needs to do is just state that "yes, we're working on a 3G iPhone that'll be available in Q2'08, now TFSU!!!!"

mobilehavoc

wow for the first time ever spain could be the first in something :(

I don't know what the iphone2 will have, but I'm sure it WON'T have ME as the owner of one

huggy

@Kaiser-Machead: It's great.

Adam Frucci

I haven't researched this subject, but how's the 3G coverage in NYC? Great? Good? Poor? Non-existent?

Kaiser-Machead

Oh yay....After almost 6 months of begging my parents for one of these for my birthday, and them finally saying I can get one, they're going to make another one. And I just sold my cell phone so I could get one. I'd previously been waiting 3 years to upgrade my 3rd gen iPod because I wanted the bigger touchscreen that was inevitable. And now I have to wait even longer. Yay.

teexcue

I wonder how many people will start bitching that their iPhone is only a year old and deserves to be updated to 3G or get some sort of refund.

bdkennedy1

Hell yeah! I'm gonna be in spain this semester! w00t. Gonna try and pick one up if they are released. Hope the exchange rate won't hurt too much.

Czechxican

Meh.

TimurY

@bdkennedy1:

No need for bitching - there will be an attractive upgrade plan to 3G for existing iPhoners

MINI-Driver

@iSmote: steve jobs did say that they wanted to gain the market share in the first year of it's release, that means from june 07 - june 08, but i do see what you mean about the different devices...

JonBrodheim

@huggy: well, they were sort of the first in America. After the Vikings (not Minnesota), polynesians, the UFOs in Nazca (not Nascar!) and everybody else who made it on foot across the Bering straight. But they definitely were the first to try to kill everybody else, at least in documented memory.

yogibimbi

Where's the line. I won't buy unless it has at least 30 GB.

Daniel Hoang

GPS and 32 - 64GB for the win!
i dont care so much about the UMTS thing, but this thing def needs more memory and GPS would be nice too
8G is just lousy, even the 16G on my ipod touch still cant replace my ipod video 60GB.

flash is so cheap meanwhile, wehy dont they upgrade the damn memory finally???

Gelangweilt

Apple would release 3G sooner if you fanboy homosexuals stop crying about paying more to have it first.

Stupid/Poor people ruin everything!

thedan24

OK. That will probably be the thing the Dutch carriers are waiting for as well, 2.5G has been abandoned here last year.

sirtalis

Perfect! My Sprint contract expires in April.

Galley

Acording to my ATT rep, (that I have known for a long time) they are planning the release of a 2nd Gen iPhone for the 1st quarter 08.
The new version will have 3G speeds, and be directed towards the business sector. It will have some kind of unspecified connectivity with Exchange/Outlook.

guilty1

Fine, Apple can release a 3G phone any time they want to. And if you're one of the lucky VERY FEW that lives in the one city of your state that has one or two 3G towers in it, you will have lightning-fast data speeds.
For the rest of us we'll have to wait until AT&T builds out their 3G network....which will take YEARS, if it ever happens at all. Hell, they haven't even finished their DIGITAL network, and they're already trumpeting 4G as coming soon.

ggore