iParadise Lost

With Apple opening channels to no contract iPhones in the US and the same with Play.com selling them here in the UK we must be on for the 3rd generation iPhone and iPhone Pro on June 8th when the Apple developers conference opens and we presume the iPhone OS 3.0 comes out. What with the Palm Pre joining the party around this time expect an iPhone with the following for sure:

Faster processor
Larger storage
Better camera
Video calls
Better screen resolution
Better battery

Also we may see whether Mr Jobs is back in the hot seat by the then, should be quite a show don't you think, and we have even touched on Snow Leopard......

There we were at CES all excited, but now with the buds of spring already out how come there is no summer launch date for the Pam Pre. Palm has to get this out to have a chance in hell of survival and unless they are going to upgrade some features pretty soon the Pre might be challenged as soon as it released. I did e-mail Palm PR reps about why the Pre was not a tri band phone, didn't they think most smart phone users travelled ? Their answer back was silence.

With apple on 3.0 by this summer perhaps Palm with launch their new WebOS straight to version 2 ?

Well there you go iPhone users two years down the line you get cut copy and paste, but hats off to Apple the phone is really at a tipping point of functionality when it come to different usage and they have probably made this stuff work better by waiting.

I do fear though the lack of things like flash support really means this summer we will have a new iphone probably same form factor but a lot swapped out under the hood just to drive all this stuff it can do faster. How long will it be until phones have a Ghz rating - actually come to think of it why don't they have one now ?

So we are going to get a peek at what's in the works with the 3.0 release for the iphone next week. This will probably be rolled on the this summer just in time to quash the release of Palm's Pre no doubt. This may mean an ability to switch apps without closing, cut and paste and push notification will be a sure thing ?

No doubt Apple will have one of two new tricks up their sleeve and that must leave the likes of the traditional mobile makers like Nokia, Samsung and Sony a little nervous about their summer vacations being cancelled this year.

The 3.0 software is still a work in progress so don't expect an upgrade next week.

As for me I could do with a better battery metre and a more robust mail programme. Alas speed improvements will need a new chip set installed as at the moment I fear the current model just has not got anymore under the hood to run any faster.

What's the bet on iphone 3g V 2 by the end of the year ?

So the third gen iPod shuffle is here it's so sleek it only has one button on it, in fact you could almost miss the Apple logo all together on the clip but I think it has two major downsides. The one that most people are already picking up on is that now the controls are on the earphones, you will be stuck with the Apple ones for quite a while to control the thing. But for me the real downside is this thing is so damn small. I have now twice washed my current ipod shuffle (it still works !) and am constantly trying to find it in pockets or buried in other tech wires and stuff. Maybe it's just me or perhaps one should always clip it to the outside of jackets. But hold on, I think I have the solution now that is has voiceover technology built in perhaps Apple could upgrade the firmware so in automatically answers here I am when you scream - Has anyone seen my bloody iPod ?