Friday, March 20, 2009

Three tantalising bits of news that are of note today:

1. AT&T's 4G rollout plan
2. Video on the iPhone
3. Two new iPhone models

New, faster networks are definitely something to look forward to, but news online of upcoming tech usually leads to questions about how long it will take to reach us. The implementation roadmap is certainly interesting since it looks and sounds like 7.2 M/Bits p/s services, and even 20 M/Bit services are imminent. (Whether they're called 4G or not is a different question.)







Two new iPhone models have been mentioned in the new 3.0 software upgrade and it will be very interesting to see what Apple does with the new higher speeds with their video phone. The likelihood of that feature in the iPhone was mentioned again in the new software developer release - the option to "publish video" on the mobileme pages on the phone. Apple said that they won't enable the video recording capabilities of the phone until the implementation is good enough, and that suggests that will be good for all of us who've ever used a crappy phone camera. I can't wait for Apple to again raise the bar. As noted by Appleinsider, they're already miles ahead of the rest of the chasing pack in terms of phone software.

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