January 2010 – January 2012

No Physical updates to the iPhone
Maybe major updates to the iPhone OS

Big Hopes:
. Ipod Touch with an iPhone video camera + wifi + 3G

The iPhone is too much of a success to tamper with its already winning formula … other smartphones like the Droid can have faster processors yet none have the iPhone OS + Apps advantage & Packaging … Android is growing very fast, it still doesn’t hold the Apple Appeal … unless they have a user interface & interaction breakthrough … which for google is very possible

I declare the Apple Application store model to be the next big thing after the “internet” was revealed … oh wait … it already is ..

Sure they are handy in some situations but really they all take crap photos, they just don’t have the depth of field, focal length and aperture of a good quality dedicated digital camera.

Mobile phones SHOULD NOT have a flash built into them. The ones that do don’t work anyway, they are a waste of time and battery life. If you know even the tiniest amount about photography you will know this to be true. So give up asking for one, Apple knows it’s a waster of time and will never bother.

Likewise with CDMA. Get with the times. What serious telco is developing CDMA? A few still use it as they ramp up for 4G, but CDMA is D-E-A-D, that’s dead people – give it up!

Lastly a physical keyboard? It goes against all the basic principals of a truly portable device that Apple are trying to develop – it will never happen. Instead Apple will continue to develop other solutions with touch technology and eventually voice recognition technology and god-knows what other technology they’ve dreamed up (I have heard about holographic keyboards, etc).

Some people are obviously thinking too small and are too focused on their here and now and not looking at the bigger picture.

This benefits you, the user, by making your device easy to support by your IT guys, and a feeling by the IT department, that they actually have knowledge of who is using a device, and how they can protect you and your companies valuable data.

It’ll probably not please everyone, but your laptop is policy managed, and if you use the device as an alternative to carrying the laptop, even occasionally. It should be manageable also.

Happy new year all !

Justyn

More PC friendly or at least a program that functions like the iCal but for PC users to sync their calendars to their iPhone. Many businesses still runs on Windows and Apple products are compatible but many things are not the same as if you owned a Mac to sync your iPhone to. I think that’s one of the reasons why businesses usually use Blackberrys more.

For the one who said CDMA – I highly doubt it. Only few countries really use CDMA and if they are, places like Asia are on their third generation of CDMA, whereas Canada is slowly moving to GSM network.

I’m pretty sure iPhone will be available with other networks. When they first came to Canada it was only available to Rogers (as they were the only GSM network at the time) and as Telus and Bell (CDMA), it was not available. Now, Telus and Bell are rolling out to GSM network capability – limited though, iPhone is now available to all three networks.

A free app for iPhone users that mimics BBM.