Last-minute 3G iPhone news, rumors, and pictures
With less than 24 hours until Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote speech, everyone is making predictions, spreading rumors, showing “pictures,” and sharing “top-secret” information about the next generation iPhone. One feature that is for sure arriving in the next-generation iPhone is 3G, but almost all else is unknown. One piece of information we found out early this weekend is the inclusion of GPS. Engadget heard from a ‘reliable’ source that firmware found in the 3G iPhone was released to carriers, and some specs (including the inclusion of GPS) were included.
Besides 3G and GPS, your guess is as good as mine.
So, what is the latest we’ve seen and heard on the iPhone front.
First off were some pictures (PICTURED ABOVE) of the supposed new iPhone, showing a PRODUCT(RED) version as well as a black/gray version. The photos showed off iChat and Exchange support and even displayed what a supposed video chat would look like. There are two giveaways here, one is giving iChat to Windows (shown in the iChat description), and the second are the people video-chatting (they just don’t look like the normal advertising models Apple uses.)
Also, a few people have posted pictures of an ‘unboxing’ of the new iPhone. The funny thing is that the pictures don’t even match up in some of them (in the same set of unboxing pictures, one would show the back as black and in another photo the back would be the standard silver.)
If you surf around the web enough, you can find tons of of “LEAKED – 3G iPHONE PICTURES”, but you should HIGHLY DOUBT authenticity.
One day until the supposed launch date of the 3G iPhone people, rumors will soon be a thing of the past.
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With all eyes in the mobile world on Apple this week I thought I thought the time was right to talk about what we believe is the best way to conduct a mobile web search on a device like the iPhone…a device with a rich, full screen, touchscreen only. Namely: Voice search. You say it, our speech recognition (running on a server) produces text, the text automatically dumps into the search engine that’s the subscriber’s choice (Google, AOL, MSN, etc.), the search engine returns results. Or via voice, search for any content from your local iTunes playlists.
Using the Apple developer kit, we’ve been hard at work developing impressive technology that make the iPhones capabilities even more powerful. Voice search. Song search and selection. At the touch of a button and simply by saying the word. Over the next few days – as the excitement mounts for the WWDC – we’ll be sharing more and more details here on our blog. For now though, I think all of us should sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
Of course, we believe the most powerful use of speech would be running on the iPhone itself (vs a remote server) and made available to the developer community via iPhone’s SDK APIs.