iPhone 2 at MWSF 2008?

Not going to happen. It's too soon. Maybe WWDC 2008, but not MWSF.

Not going to happen. It's too soon. Maybe WWDC 2008, but not MWSF.

Yeah, I agree. I think it would be so toon. I rather not get too excited about it and then be disappointed later on. :o

I could easily see them announcing it there, then having to have the same amount of lead time that Friday's iPhone had, i mean that would be a year sense introduction

interesting....i personally believe it would be about the time a refreshment came but seeing as these guys have never rumoured about apple i don't think its true......but i do reckon macworld would be a good time to update the iPhone, its getting a bit old already...oh and do they have to get FCC approval everytime and is FCC approval just on phones or do they get it on every product they do????

Dear god, are we going to see "iPhone G5 next Tuesday!" on a recurring basis now?

yeah, i say it's way too soon. i would hope this iPhone lasts at least a year before its out of date

It needs to be 3G-enabled for Asia, hopefully HSDPA capable to take advantage of the 3.6Mbps+ speed of the NextG network and it's competitors here in Oz.

Maybe it won't officially be "iPhone 2" but there will be a different version released next year.

yeah, i say it's way too soon. i would hope this iPhone lasts at least a year before its out of date

"Too soon" is all relative. You have to expect that Apple's competitors are quickly readying their responses to the iPhone. And I am sure that some of them are going to be very, very good. So, Apple will have to fight back to stay competitive. They still have to succumb to market pressures, especially when they are trying to build a significant business within Apple Inc.

In all honesty, I think that the lack of GPS integration into the Google maps application is a serious shortfall of the iPhone.

Hickman

At D5, Jobs made a comment about ships leaking from the top, so they're well aware about how early releases affect current performance. Jobs knows it and the rest of Apple knows it. They also know the importance of the iPhone to Apple's business.

I think it's safe to say:
- Apple won't risk alienating its early adopters by antiquating its first model after only 6 months!
- Apple will *not* just sit on their butts once the phone is released. I'm sure there are features and enhancements planned.

I suspect that we'd *maybe* see a hardware revision in a year at next year's WWDC.. Maybe.

I think it's a lot more likely that they'll stick to software updates, and update the hardware *every two years*, right in sync with people's phone plans! Imagine the possibilities of coordinated hardware releases and contracts! You could have a lot of people treating their iPhone as a hardware subscription.. especially as the price of flash memory continues to come down.

Imagine credits for trade-in of your 4GB or 8GB model toward a 16 with unlocked GPS, et al?

Apple could be on to something. But not until they've taken care of the first generation, and all the fiddling that comes with a first gen apple product.

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In order to be competitive Apple will need to refresh their line-up every six months. Both SE and Nokia do this across their entire range of phones.