24 hours to iPhone 3G
June 8, 2008 – 12:03 pm | by AziziCan you feel it? There’s definitely a disturbance in the Internet, as thousands of people anxiously await the announcement of the next generation of the Apple iPhone. Even now, just a day before Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), we still get new pieces of information. The iPhone Blog has done a fantastic job compiling all the rumours and speculation so far.
Come Monday, I presume we will be both delighted and disappointed — after all, you can’t please everybody all of the time. What we should see is the new iPhone, with:
- 3G and 2.5G network support
- GPS / A-GPS (maybe)
- iPhone 2.0 firmware, with Microsoft Exchange support
- (legal) native third party applications
- available (legally) just about everywhere.
Whether the iPhone will have two cameras (for iChat / video calls), or a change in form factor (smaller/slimmer or larger/fatter), or support Flash, etc, we still don’t know.
I wonder if we will see two iPhones : one larger/fatter one with all the 3G goodness, and a smaller/slimmer one which will be essentially the current iPhone with 2.0 firmware.
2 Responses to “24 hours to iPhone 3G”
By Nuance Communications on Jun 9, 2008 | Reply
With all eyes in the mobile world on Apple this week I thought I thought the time was right to talk about what we believe is the best way to conduct a mobile web search on a device like the iPhone…a device with a rich, full screen, touchscreen only. Namely: Voice search. You say it, our speech recognition (running on a server) produces text, the text automatically dumps into the search engine that’s the subscriber’s choice (Google, AOL, MSN, etc.), the search engine returns results. Or via voice, search for any content from your local iTunes playlists.
Using the Apple developer kit, we’ve been hard at work developing impressive technology that make the iPhones capabilities even more powerful. Voice search. Song search and selection. At the touch of a button and simply by saying the word. Over the next few days – as the excitement mounts for the WWDC – we’ll be sharing more and more details here on our blog. For now though, I think all of us should sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
Of course, we believe the most powerful use of speech would be running on the iPhone itself (vs a remote server) and made available to the developer community via iPhone’s SDK APIs.