What Hardware Changes Will iPhone OS 3.0 Bring?

Gadget Lab on Wired.com round-up

May. 27, 2009 07:30 AM

On June 22 I will be Chairing the SYS-CON iPhone Developer Summit in NYC. Along with me will be some great industry presenters and colleagues from Sybase/iAnywhere showing off the Enterprise capabilities they have for iPhone.

In preparation for this event I have been searching around for what the industry thinks Apple will announce, when the new OS and hopefully hardware becomes available, and I found a great article by Brian Chen of the Gadget Lab in Wired.com.

Brian summarizes the rumors and puts a percentage probability next to each, that the feature will be announced with the next device. The article is called Rumor Round-Up: Everything We’ve Heard About the Next iPhone and can be found here .

I personally am hoping that the Processor, RAM & Storage get increased, along with an upgrade to the camera. These would be my must have, whilst my nice to have list would be the magnetometer (digital compass), a user-facing camera (for possible future video-conferencing facilities such as iChat/Skype) and a sleeker aluminum design - akin to the new uni-body MacBooks.

Something based on the beautiful titanium Apple iPhone concept designed by Jim Young here would suite me just right.

▪ A Look Into the iPhone Crystal Ball?

▪ What Do iPhone Developers Think of SDK 3.0 and the OS?

▪ iPhone 3.0: Usability Tweaks and New APIs

About Ian Thain
As one of the Sybase Technical Evangelists, Ian regularly addresses technical audiences all over the world and his sessions are always very well attended. He also writes education classes, whitepapers, demos and articles for various Sybase products and publishes regularly in Journals such as SYS-CON's PBDJ and International Developer Magazine. He is also the Sybase Unwired Platform & PocketBuilder Evangelist and works closely with the team in Dublin, CA and Concord, MA on new features and demonstrations for the products. He is also Tech Chair of iPhone Development Summit 2009 - New York (June) and San Francisco (November). In his customer-facing Evangelist role, Ian is very involved with the design, production and testing of Enterprise class Unwired Solutions, that have been implemented using Sybase's Unwired tools for Sybase customers around the globe. In addition, Ian is a dedicated technical expert continually working with Sybase's key partners and clients to enhance the capabilities of the Unwired solutions that Sybase can offer to its customers. Ian can also be found on Twitter @ithain