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Second-gen iPhone Confirmed?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting-ahead-of-themselves-a-bit dept.

gadgetopia writes "ITWire is reporting that the Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta has seemingly confirmed a second generation of the Apple iPhone. Another report referenced by the article suggests the new model could come with a different case design. 'Quanta and Apple already enjoy a strong relationship, with Quanta building both MacBooks and iPods for Apple to sell worldwide, although Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is reported to be building the first batch of iPhones due to arrive in the US market by the end of June. Reports suggest Quanta has received an order for 5 million iPhones which are to be shipped in September ... Presumably this could entail a 3G or even 3.5G HSDPA iPhone for European markets due to get the iPhone by the end of the year, or even the addition of more memory - imagine a 16Gb or even 32Gb iPhone, unlikely though those will be this year mainly due to the high cost of 16 or 32Gb of flash memory.'"

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  1. Imagine by noz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    imagine a 16Gb or even 32Gb iPhone, unlikely though those will be this year mainly due to the high cost of 16 or 32Gb of flash memory.
    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of iPhones, unlikely though these are already difficult enough to get your hand on one, let alone 20 including mobile phone contracts.
  2. Nokia - kiss your Smartphone biz away by hirschma · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I also have a Nokia E61, too. Great hardware; the software and interfaces, well, not so much. The damned thing was put together by a graphics designer, not an interface designer, and is the opposite of intuitive.

    To start out with, it is shameful that Nokia couldn't ship a product with POP/IMAP client that actually works. I mean, it isn't like there aren't many reference products out there, many with their code available for perusal. They had to have known that the mail app was broken, unless they did no beta/user testing (and I'm guessing that they didn't).

    Some UI/interface things that are whacked about it - cut and paste works in some apps, not in others (all Nokia supplied). It can take three clicks/submenus to make a call in some contexts. You can have multiple phone listings per contact, but only access one of them via voice dial (the voice rec is pretty good - would it have been so hard to allow for "John Doe Home, John Doe Mobile, John Doe Work" instead of just "John Doe"?).

    The keyboard-unlock keys are almost impossible to do one-handed. All networked apps are limited to port numbers of three digits or less because they only give you space to type three digits. Addresses are in the tiniest font possible, and it is not adjustable.

    The File Manager is located in "Office". Everything else related to files and/or apps are located in "Tools". Some apps are in the root of the UI (clock), some are not. There almost no navigation for the photo viewing stuff - all your files in one big pile. I could go on; this thing never saw user testing. Why? It has to Nokia's corporate culture - no small(er) company would release something so poorly thought out. Hell, not even MS or GM would release something so poorly thought out.

    I expect that Apple is going to give Nokia a very bad couple of years, and very well could do to them what MS did to Palm in the PDA space.

    jh