Second-gen iPhone Confirmed? 186
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.'"
memory size (Score:1, Informative)
*waves iPhone around* (Score:3, Informative)
I think it means second production run, but probably for Europe. It will have to pass CE certification for Europe and I would guess that the European partners have probably pointed out that 3G would be a good idea as we have more of that than wifi at the moment.
Re:How about voice dialing and better battery (Score:2, Informative)
Re:memory size (Score:1, Informative)
And you meant 32 gibibytes. You're an Apple user, aren't you? Go back to Remedial Prefixes 101 before you embarrass yourself further.
Re:How about voice dialing and better battery (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Can we please get out the next OS first! (Score:2, Informative)
For Europe ... already announced to ship Jan 2008 (Score:3, Informative)
Re:These kind of news remind me of... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Can we please get out the next OS first! (Score:5, Informative)
NOT a second-gen iPhone for US (Score:3, Informative)
Maybe it is a Canadian phone, maybe it is a European phone, maybe it is just an iPod. What is isn't is a next-gen US iPhone.
Re:Can we please get out the next OS first! (Score:5, Informative)
How many tiny physical buttons do you think it needs? I've used everything from a Treo to a BBerry, and can't say physical buttons push my buttons. Dialing numbers or mixed number/text is annoying with a full mini keyboard, and is painful with T9. I for one welcome our new touch screen overlords.
Recall seeing any keyboards on Star Trek? We have to make the move at some point in order to get into the future, and its not like Microsoft is going to usher in something new.
Another point of interest is that nobody is crying about the LG Prada phone, which uses a similar arrangement of a touch screen, albeit using the horrific Flash Lite.
Origins: Why the iPhone is ARM, and isn't Symbian [roughlydrafted.com]
Apple iPhone vs LG Prada KE850 [roughlydrafted.com]
Re:Can we please get out the next OS first! (Score:3, Informative)
Of course, so far, I'm not sure the iPhone is even going to be that great. We'll have to wait and see how it handles real world usage.