With many sites now reporting July 17th as launch day for the 2nd generation 3G iPhone we thought it might be handy to post a round-up of the rumoured feature-set so far. We can then post back on Jul 17th and see how many of them were correct!
Certainly the leaked images that have been posted look genuine and came from the same site that showed images of the first generation 3G case which proved to be accurate. So what do we have so far:
- Rubberised coating for rear case
- Illuminated Apple Logo on rear
- 32GB option
- front and rear cameras
- 3.2 Megapixel camera
- Video recording
- MMS
- OLED Screen (I pray this is true, OLED is amazing)
- 1.5x battery life
- FM Transmitter
- Compass
So quite a few features that if true will be very welcome. Certainly the increased battery life is desperately needed and an OLED screen would be ground breaking. I confess I’ve never really bothered with MMS on those phones that support it, I much prefer email or to tweet an image but I recognise it has been a major omission for those who are heavy users of it.
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