Photo Courtesy of Unwired View

Last month Apple announced the release of their iPhone OS 3.0. But… will there be a new iPhone? At this moment they are constantly telling everyone that they cannot say at this time. This summer will be the second anniversary. That means there are A LOT of people who have contracts about to expire. So if AT&T doesn’t release a new iPhone they will lose a lot of security. If they do release a new one they will have a way to lock in current customers into another two year contract. Hopefully there will be a 32 gig one… Especially since I am a gig eater!

What will be on 3.0?!

MMS and Stereo bluetooth will be available but not as an upgrade on the 1.0.

Copy/Cut and Paste. How will it work? You can double tap a word and drag little selectors across the text and a copy and paste option will appear. You can also shake the phone to undo something.

There are rumors of video.

Landscape keyboard across all the apps and SMS messaging.

There will be more flexibility for developers to create hardware that works with the iPhone such as a scale that can tell you your blood pressure and other health facts or scanners to use for inventory. Also this will allow you to use your phone’s internet on your laptop when not in a wifi hotspot.

You can now embed google maps into your apps. No turn by turn except for people who have their own map apps. Tom tom will be happy… The performance of the google map will also be much faster.

No voice dialing? Most crap phones have voice dialing and the iPhone still wont have it. Why? probably because most people don’t use their iPhone as a phone even though that’s what it is.

Spotlight feature which will allow you to globally search through your applications.

Push notification so you don’t have to use a background program to get notifications.

Skype will be just like it is on the mac for chatting and making cheap international calls.

The upgrade will be free for exsisting iPhone users and will ship out this summer.

I would love to buy the iPhone now for cheap (well considering the old price) but I think I will be waiting out to get the new one. Anyone want to wait in line with me on release day? LOL

I got most of this info from Macbreak weekly.

♥ Shawnee