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.

What I am hoping for is iChat support or better still proper support for some of the better IM clients such as Adium but it remains to be seen if the push-notification system will allow an IM app to function.

Still my daughter is primed to gain a hand-me-down iPhone 3G come launch and so she’s a happy bunny and I’ve major surgery late Summer so a new iPhone will come in very handy when I’m stuck in the hospital and during the lengthy recovery process.

To be continued Jul 17th…….