NYTimes Speculates On the Next iPhone

Achromatic1978 writes "The NYT has a story on the next revision of the iPhone, and discusses what will become of the iPhone, now that the hype is starting to slow (Jobs goal for 2008 was ten million iPhones sold — as of the first quarter, only 1.7 million have left the shelves). The WWDC is the rumored release date for a next version, and Jobs has promised that this year will see a 3G iPhone released."

Comments

Re:How to get to 10M in 2008:

[morgan_greywolf]

Yeah, but 1.7*5 is still only 8.5.

I'm one of those

[BLKMGK]

I looked at the first phone and thought it was kewl and am already on at&t. Thought the googleMaps thing was awesome.... till I found out it had no GPS. WTF?! Yeah, it uses something like Navizon but why would I want to rely on cell tower triangulation and some sort of Wi-Fi database? Friends do tell me it works well but I want a damned GPS. 3G sounds nice too but I guess I'll know I need more bandwidth after using it? Told all my friends I wouldn't touch it till it had GPS - uh oh looks like I'm getting an iPhone soon!

Friends tell me it's actually useful for things other than phone calls. Wow. Since my existing phone does jack EXCEPT make calls poorly that might be nice. Can't use it at work but jailbreaking it for 3rd party apps in my spare time would be interesting, screw the crippled SDK stuff. I sometimes use the woman's phone to look up stuff on the WEB but it's WinCE based and frankly sucks. Since I'm already on the service how bad could it be? Probably cost me about the same, has data, even if it's only a little better it'll be worth it.