3G iPhone, Front-Sided Camera for Video Chat?

Most of us probably know about digg.com, and its founder Kevin Rose. Well Kevin, no stranger to iPhone rumors, has once again blessed the viewing audience of his show Diggnation with another juicy iPhone rumor.

This time he talks about iPhone 2 and the reason why the new SDK will not allow applications to use memory after being closed. He claims that a number of different sources (different from the previously incorrect ones) have told him the reason why Apple is forcing applications to work with one hand tied behind their back is that they do not want a competing Instant Messaging client. Competing you say? Competing against what? Well that is the second part of his rumor..He is also claiming that the iPhone 2 will be 3G capable (obviously) with an iChat program that also has video conferencing. These new iPhones will have a camera on the back of the phone, just like they do now, however they will also feature a second camera coming through the glass directly infront of the first camera. Allowing people to video chat iPhone to iPhone over a 3G network while looking at the screen. Very cool stuff.

And here is the video of him discussing this rumor in which he goes into more detail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ6JEs5swKg

*He also say the name for the product will be something like iPhone Pro, not iPhone 2

bah, K.Rose is fulla feces. Remember his first iPhone rumor? "it's gonna be fully unlocked, GMS and CDMA, blah blah blah. If apple doesn't want you to know about iPhone 2, you won't. End of Story. Now go eat some hagus and stare at your Diggnation poster while listing to audio loops of kevin rose on your ipod while watching reruns of the screensavers.

for someone who hates kevin rose, you sure do know a lot about him....

I think he also claimed on the day of the iPhone announcement that it would have a slide keyboard. :rolleyes:

I don't take much stock in what Kevin has to say.

for someone who hates kevin rose, you sure do know a lot about him....

Would you rather he hate someone he knows nothing about? That would be kind of dumb, don't you think?

I've often wondered if they would do a camera in the front for video conferencing, so that would be kind of cool. I just hope the second gen iPhone is out in a few months like we're expecting, because I've been holding out for it and I really want to ditch my current phone.

So a month before the iPhone announcement this guy claims it's coming out in January, will work on "all three standards," will have two different batteries, a significant price difference between the 4 and 8 gig models, and a slide-out keyboard.

Sounds like a credible source.

So a month before the iPhone announcement this guy claims it's coming out in January, will work on "all three standards," will have two different batteries, a significant price difference between the 4 and 8 gig models, and a slide-out keyboard.

Sounds like a credible source.

well he did say that it was a different source from last time, but yeah I see what you mean.

Given his track record on iPhone rumors i'd take this with a grain of salt. He's basically saying the iPhone will come with a built in iSight

I was actually hoping to see this in the current iPhone and I expected the (or a) camera to be in the front to begin with.

Ah, but then we didn't even get at least a text only version of iChat :/

Given his track record on iPhone rumors i'd take this with a grain of salt. He's basically saying the iPhone will come with a built in iSight

I was honestly thinking of this the other day, and wondering if they would maybe incorporate an iPhone version of iSight to have video telephone convos with other iPhone users. It'd be pretty sweet, just wonder how feasible