IPhone Pro? From Gizmodo.com
http://gizmodo.com/5119445/the-dream-iphone-pro
Here's the new iPhone Pro, something that we don't expect at MacWorld 2009 at all. However, we do expect something like this to come at a later date. Why? Because it just makes sense.
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This concept started as a Photoshop idea by Giz reader Mat Brady. He wants to get rid of his Nokia N95 but can't get himself to buy an iPhone for the same reason other people don't like the current iPhone. Lack of a physical keyboard, lack of a good camera, and not enough storage.
I've an iPhone 3G. I love it. In fact, now that I'm in Spain and I can't use the 3G—because AT&T will nail me for the data roaming at a buck per megabyte—I miss a lot of things, from Maps to Facebook. But even while I can't live without it, I can see those shortcomings. In fact, I've bitched about the camera and the storage quite a few times. Mat made his concept and called it iPhone Elite: an iPhone with 60GB of storage, true 16:9 aspect ratio, slide-out keyboard, one megapixel front camera for iChat, and a high quality camera, with good lenses, optical zoom, and video capability.
That's good, but we thought it could be a bit better. We fixed the keyboard to make it more rational and compact, losing some unneeded keys. With the space, we added what it's really needed to make the iPhone a true Nintendo DS competitor: A direction pad and two buttons. For the D-Pad, we didn't want to reinvent the wheel and just copied Nintendo's tried-and-proved design.
Is this doable now? Technologically, it is. We've seen designs by HTC that get close to this, although they don't have the software and the final polish that this class of Apple product may have. Would it be more expensive too produce than the current iPhone 3G? Of course. Would we want to pay extra for it? Definitely yes.
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Permalink Reply by Laurence on -
This would be Logical, particularly since I don't think I could go back to a device without a physical Qwerty keyboard.
Not only that but folk have had a few games on things like the kaiser for a while now
EG... the first 2 quakes
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Permalink Reply by Laurence on
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just noticed this from Anything but Ipod. All future devices should encoporate, at the very least, Micro SDXC support. Imagine that!! 2 Terrabytes of your favorite music games and videos (or maybe even GPS Maps) on something the size of this...
Or How about Hard wire the storage Technology into the device, then allow for expandability as well :D. but the only way I'd go for an apple device would be if I was allowed to Access it via any computer, and not have i sync up to something like Itunes. That put me off apple audio products forever.
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Permalink Reply by Derek on -
iPhone 2.0? Partial story:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/35132
Curious bloggers poking around the latest iPhone firmware update stumbled upon something pretty interesting Wednesday: An innocuous line of code that might—just might—indicate that a major new iPhone model is in the works. Let the speculation begin!
The bloggers at MacRumors popped the hood on iPhone firmware update 2.2.1 (which arrived on iTunes earlier this week) and found a line of code designating what appears to be a new iPhone model: "iPhone2,1", to be exact.
As the MacRumors post explains, Apple's firmware code uses different identifiers for specific iPhone and iPod Touch models; for example, the original iPhone was "iPhone 1,1", while the iPhone 3G is "iPhone1,2".
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