iPhone 3.0 – In A Month

Having reading on every single rumors and prediction articles on the internet makes me eagerly waiting for Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), on June 8th 2009.

There are many predictions and hopes that were focused on the upcoming iPhone. Firstly, the upgraded camera. It was written along with the rumors that new iPhone will have 5 MP camera, and a budgeted 3.2 MP camera. Surely, this is a long awaited hardware upgrade from Apple Fans because they want a better and superior photo quality, like others namely LG (8 MP), Samsung (8 MP) and more. Even with their current 2 MP camera, iPhone really optimized their hardware with the application and you would be surprised to see that iPhone photos quality is way better good, competing in it range (2 MP).

With the upgrade of the camera, come along the application which is designed to fully optimized the use of their new hardware. Like always, the long awaited feature natively from Apple; the video recording capability. Even though you would say that we can achieve this feature with mods and hacks, however, with different hardware, image processing unit, the processor itself, and with iPhone OS 3.0 we will be able to have great and awesome video recording.

Along with the video recording feature is a new iPhone OS native application, important to any Mac OS, and called the iMovie for iPhone. This will enable the video sharing and even upload to the internet. Awesome. Low quality recording? I don’t think so. Apple has their own standard – The Best in is Range and at Maximum Performance. You will be able to edit you movie on the iPhone itself and it was told to be almost extended as iMovie on Mac OS X. (I use it a lot and I won and iPod Shuffle with that).

To accompany the video feature, next generation iPhone OS 3.0 has been confirmed to enable MMS support. This is a very crucial feature for user like me and Malaysian because our internet backbones are not stable and widely available to the consumer, thus disabling the email feature. Moreover, not everyone in Malaysia use email on their phone, in worst case, they don’t even have an email account yet (OMG! haha). Japan use this feature widely and people around the world can email directly to their phone, just by sending an email to the registered telco company. Ops, back to the topic, MMS is a great feature in Malaysia and mostly in all other country because it enable to to share your short video (normal video, not the x-rated video) and photo sharing.

Copy-Cut-Paste. This is the next crucial function, yet to be fully enable in current iPhone OS. Yes, you can have the feature today by using additional apps or hacks, but it would be better if the function itself is natively build within the system, and not some mods and hack. This feature was told to be cross-apps so that you can cut or copy from one app, to any app that you want to. You can copy or cut photo from email, part of paragraph or whole of it and such.

Then, the tethering mode, or shall I rephrase that to “using the phone as a modem”. With this feature, you will be able to officially connect the iPhone to you computing devices, and enable the iPhone as a modem. Yes. A modem to connect you to the internet and yeah, it was rumored to be a 7.2 HSDPA / HSPA 3G modem. Hahaha. That is awesomely fast! However, in Malaysia you will be stuck to 3.6 as the highest speed available (if you’re lucky too, haha).

Bluetooth will be more useful. No more restricted to only to several usage. Push notifications. Magnetometer, for  digital compass. This compass will enable you to know which direction are you facing to, and will be native support with new hardware. This is freaking awesome for Geologist! We use compass and GPS a lot! yea!

Thats all for this review. Have a good weekend people. Especially geeks. Have a break, take a rest.

p.s: iPhone is awesome. Yet Android is so tempting. Samsung Android? or next model by T-Mobile G1?