Ok, Apple’s World Wide Developer Showdown starts tomorrow, and with the internet ablaze with poorly made fake photos of the new iPhone, I guess I’ll throw my hat into the ring and make a few predictions about the iPhone 2:
- It will feature 3G. That’s pretty much a given.
- It will probably have an all-black/red/choice of colours back to it, rather than the current one-quarter black, three-quarters chrome look. I’m not 100% sure on the colours other than black, but it looks possible.
- There will be an app store. Obviously.
- There will be no major new hardware feature additions other than the 3G networking. I’ve seen (fake) mockups which show the iPhone V2 with a front camera for webcam chats; I personally don’t think this will happen now: the iPhone OS 2.0 will run on both current and new iPhones, remember, and adding new hardware features like this would leave users of existing iPhones behind. I don’t think Apple want to do this just yet.
- New enterprise features have been announced — interoperability with Windows email servers, for instance (hey, it’s not a perfect world!). I’d say there’s a 75% chance of a few new enterprise features being announced next week too.
- Special Bonus Prediction: Steve Jobs will say ‘boom’ at least once while demoing some new feature.
So there you have it, or rather, them. I won’t be buying one because I’ve got one already (wonderful piece of kit), but feel free to come back in a day or so and praise/criticise my (lack of) foresight as you see fit anyway ;)
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