What the iPhone WILL be…

If Steve Jobs is inviting his friends to the keynote, as the rumors say, what better reason to do it than to announce a product that will crush the cell phone industry, just like the iPod destroyed the competition when it came to digital music players…

So, let’s put on our crazy hats here for a minute and talk about what we think the rumored Apple phone should be…

• First, the price, it’s $499, deal with it (early adopters always pay a premium)
• GSM cell capabilities, voice + data (with push email, web and music/movie downloads)
• GSM should be quad-band, and let’s do it like Europe and allow prepaid SIM cards
• 4GB Flash Memory for music, of course, with iPod-like controls
• WiFi capabilities for VOIP as well as chat (IM, video IM, etc), with a mobile iChat
• 3MP Digital Camera…2MP would be okay, but let’s be greedy, with a mobile iPhoto
• GPS is real handy, location aware, autotag photos taken with camera, etc.
• Bluetooth, of course you gotta have that for headsets, syncing
• A standard damned USB-mini connection to charge/sync as well
• An IR port – this would make a mean remote control, especially the big version…
• Ability to play iPod games and use Dashboard widgets!!
• Browser has Java, Quicktime and Flash capabilities

Now, some analysis…

Breaking News: New Apple Wifi – Airport Express X2 & X4

Many have reported this, see the linked article at the Macworld site here. Our question is what are people going to do with 600mb/s (that’s megabits folks, not MegaBytes) networks in their homes? Even if you have fiber to your house, that tends to be 45mb/s, which is easily done today with existing 801.11g products. Even HDTV tends to be somewhere between 20-40mb/s. What would one use all the bandwidth for? Maybe businesses, but home users? The only thing we can come up with is so you can stream HD content (Blu-ray, perhaps, from a new Mac Pro / iMac) to your new iTV… Any ideas, let us know, applerecon-at-gmail-dot-com, or sound off below in the comments!