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Rumors Flying About New iPhone Capabilities

Jumping on the completely unconfirmed rumor bandwagon, it seems that there have been photos leaked for the new iPhone, which include things like an auto-focus camera, video capture, and a compass. The photos were originally displayed (and then quickly removed) on a Chinese forum, and quickly spread to many other sites, including a complete human translation on the MacRumors forum. Looks like Apple security may have to break a few more pocket protectors to keep employees in line.

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  1. Re:Whatever comes out... by Kensai7 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It has never been easier to make a telephone generate its own fart sounds...

    Well, here you go! These are the "killer appz" that make the Apple fanboyz go mad. This is 90-95% of all available progies for iPhone.

    ...or do a variety of other things, some of which are actually useful.

    Fair enough. I admit there is this 5% of some really cool applications for iPhone. But my initial post (which I find ridiculous that had been moded as "flamebait", this was NOT my intention) wanted to stress a point.

    Both Symbian and Android can do what iPhone does and even more. And developers can leverage the WHOLE underlying technology. So the iPhone Store story is only a stupid buzz. The developers need to wake up and port their useful apps to Symbian and Android as soon as possible. Because it CAN be done and actually their apps will probably even look and run even better!

    As long as we have a 50-60% market share for open source mobile OSes we are ok. I'm afraid of what will happen if Apple somehow prevails and becomes the Microsoft of the mobile OS market.

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    "Sum Ergo Cogito"
  2. Re:You mean the G1? by sremick · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The OS you are looking for is called Windows Mobile. Its been around a pretty long time and does not restrict anything you put on it.

    As long as you don't mind running Windows on your cell phone. A lot of us have issues with it, and not just bias.

    Sprint has the cheapest, fastest internet and pretty good coverage as well.

    Cheapest. Fastest. Best. Choose 2. Oh wait, you have.

    Sprint also has like no decent (usable) coverage to speak of in my state. Unless you happen to live in a city. And this is a state where our biggest "city" is only about 200,000 people.

  3. Re:You mean the G1? by pwfffff · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Grats, you're officially the first person I've ever heard take issue with Android's UI.

    Now would you like to tell us WHY you think a three year old designed it?

  4. Re:iNexpensive? by EastCoastSurfer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And since it's not a standard USB plug, I couldn't just plug it in to the plethora of USB ports around.

    Do many phones have USB on the phone side? From my experience, the iPhone cable plugs into any USB port and will charge from it. You're right on the phone side it is a special connector (ipod connector), but every phone I've owned has been like that.

    BTW, the iphone cable is just a standard ipod cable. Even people who don't own ipods seem to have some of those around at this point lol.

  5. Hey, new iPhone... by jomcty · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey, new iPhone, meet my BlackBerry Curve 8900.

  6. Re:iNexpensive? by donny77 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Depends on what you mean by better off. If you rarely use the web browser because it sucks and I use my iPhones web browser everyday, then you paid less, but did you get better value? What was your price per megabyte versus my price per megabyte on my iPhone? I'm not saying your wrong, just price isn't everything.