Kevin Rose has more iPhone "info"

Cleve Nettles
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March 23, 2008
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Kevin Rose of Diggnation/digg.com and Pownce fame is predicting that the iPhone is getting a front camera for video conferencing.  He also "predicts" that it will go 3G in the coming months - never mind that both Steve Jobs and AT&T's CEO have also confirmed a 2008 3G iPhone.

Keep in mind, Kevin Rose is 0 fer in iPhone predictions, previously predicting:

  • January 2007 launch on "all" providers, both CDMA and GSM (June 29th launch)
  • Extremely small form factor (not that small)
  • Two battery design (with single charger) -- one for playing music, the other for phone functions (not even close)
  • Flash memory: 4GB for $249, 8GB for $449 (nope)
  • "Slide-out keyboard" (wha?)
  • Possibly touchscreen (can't always be wrong?)

Needless to say, we wouldn't bet the farm on this...sorry.

 

Comments (15)

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 5:22am

I predict the 3g iphone will have phone capabilties. Does that mean you can reference me with regard to iphone rumors as well?

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 5:38am

Wowww.....what other obvious features do you predict?

bob (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 5:41am

i heard it would have a sealed in battery but cant tell you who i got the info from, lets just say its an inside tip.

RonL (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 5:59am

Not a digg fanatic or anything, but Kevin was one of the people who predicted that iPhone will have OS X. Remember?

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 8:37am

If farms are outlawed then only outlaws will be farms!

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 10:39am

Sigh, I'm dumbfounded at Alex's ignorance. Yes Alex, your old phone does not contain a 3G chipset, so you have to get a new phone if you want 3G.

As for being punished for early adopting, outside of the fact that you got to use an iPhone for a YEAR + are getting a FREE upgrade to the 2.0 software. Yeah, I guess Steve Jobs is just out to get you.

t0mat0 (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 10:56am

With the dude on the left of the video for company, it's no great leap to see why his guesses are atrocious. You've got more informed guesses, timeframes and such on mac rumors forums.

Robert (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 12:44pm

An Intel processor is needed for videoconferencing.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 1:44pm

Actually it's more likely application are not allowed to run in the background because the processor in the iPhone is not that strong and it might affect phone calls and overall performance.

Sean (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 3:50pm

I can think of another reason for no background-apps; 4 hours battery life.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 5:12pm

Have people not realised that Music on the iPhone/iPod Touch can run in the background while looking at contacts/notes etc. So why does Apple stop others from doing this. I think that Apple should make it clear that they don't want apps to do this rather than can't.

Devin (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 6:54pm

i predict he is dead wrong on everything but the obvious 3g and probable hardware refresh (slightly new look, w/out his front cam prediction). the bit about the chat app competition is really funny considering apple demoed the AIM app at the SDK press conference.

No. (not verified) | March 23, 2008 - 11:45pm

No idea...Poor Kid..

Art Vandelay (not verified) | March 24, 2008 - 7:36pm

iPhone Pro... wtf?

theMIDkid (not verified) | May 08, 2008 - 1:32pm

Seems outrageous-- but look at these pics recently posted of the iphone 2 supposedly

http://www.maclife.com/article/3g_iphone_pics_this_time_its_white

and his comments were before these pics surfaced. and NO you don't need an intel processor for video chat haha. how does video chat work then on Mac computers!