There has been a lot of guessing and conjecture around what Apple will announce next week. I have the following from a reliable source and guarantee it is at least as good as the other predictions you are reading:
Battery life
Once Apple make it possible for the iphone to function completely without connecting to a laptop then you get the issue of less frequent charges and reduced battery life.
The new iPhone will be able to charge itself in several different ways:
- Solar: Inbuilt solar micro-panels
- Kinetic: body motion
- Heat: Body heat
- Wind: Simply talking, your breath will charge the phone
- Static: can convert the static produced in your pocket or bag
Retinal control
There has been many rumors about a frontal facing camera with the thought it is for video conferencing. In fact multi-touch is so last year and will be replaced by retinal scanning. "iGestures" will be used to navigate the UI in new and innovative ways. When you look away from the screen it will also turn off to conserve battery life.
Enhanced earbuds
The phone will ship with a new pair of headphones that can respond to brainwaves in a simplistic manner. You will be able to raise or lower volume based on basic thought commands. If you stop listening they will detect this and pause the player. During the playback of a track it will sense your emotional response and rate the track accordingly for later sync with your main iTunes library.
Accessory Awareness
The phone will be able to detect when it is being used with an unapproved or even worse, tasteless accessory. For example, if you try and put it in one of those hideous rubber or plastic cases, similar to putting a car bra on a porsche, the phone will rebel and refuse to work until it is removed. Alternatively it may just cripple certain functionality or change the phone theme to something more fitting your lack of style such as a kitten screensaver.
Incremental Feature Addition (IFA)
The phone will come with a set of pre-installed apps, the existing phones will get these too. For every new Apple product you register, such as a new iPod, a new MacBook, etc, additional features will be unlocked on the phone. Think of it as a reward for being loyal to Apple. There is no risk that you will run out of products to buy in order to get more features as Apple will refresh and make redundant all of your existing registered products within 6 months of purchase.
What is missing?
It is believed that the following features will not be present in the new phone due to the complexity of implementing them compared to the features above:
- No search capability in mail or address book
- No video support
- No MMS
- No replaceable battery
- No Flash or Java support
- No support for concurrent 3rd party applications
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