It’s nearly 5 months until Apple’s usual time for iPhone announcements, however it is likely an announcement will be later this month on 27 Jan 10. This is also the time when many tipsters are talking about Apple revealing their iSlate device. If Apple goes ahead with an earlier than usual iPhone refresh announcement, it is likely that this has been done to stop all of the rumours, and to prevent its competitors (Google, Motorola, HTC) from taking too much of a dent out of its sales). However if Apple don’t release the iPhone 4G straight away, surely this will have an impact on iPhone 3G/S sales, so perhaps no announcements at all?
I have compiled my list of wishes for the refresh (I dub it iPhone 4G, even though most mobile networks are only 3.5G ready)
- Up to 128GB storage
- 1GB RAM
- 1GHz CPU
- Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX545 mobile GPU
- 802.11n WiFi
- (4G LTE)
- 5MP Camera, with LED flash and camera capable of recording 720p videos
- Forward facing camera for 3G video calls or IP video calls, maybe HD too?
- LED/OLED LCD Screen with higher resolution, perhaps 800 x 640 like the Nexus One
- Improved battery life
Software Updates (4.0)
- Multi tasking (let us decide whether we wan’t to enable this and pay in terms of worse battery life)
- Allow video apps (Slingplayer) access to the 3G network.
- iPhone Messaging Service (iMS) (free iPhone-to-iPhone) app similar to Blackberry Messaging Service. If you have a contacts mobile number, then you can iMS them.
