Walt spills the beans on new iPhone release?
Walt Mossberg was filmed talking about a lot of interesting subjects a couple of days ago. He went on a bit of a rant about the lame broadband connections most people have in the US. In fact, he singled out Verizon. I thought that was pretty interesting considering he has a Verizon FIOS fiber connection (or so it seems). I don't really disagree with him. I think everyone in the US should have a 100meg fiber connection, too.
While he was talking about the barriers to successful adoption of download and streaming video, he mentioned the speeds of cell phone connections. He dropped a bit of a bomb during that discussion. He said the Apple iPhone would be 3G in 60 days. I'm not sure if he had permission to say that, but it's too late. It's all over the internet. See the article and full video at http://www.beet.tv/2008/04/ftc-should-stop.html.
If that is really true, I hope Apple is smart enough to put 32 or 64GB of memory in the next gen device. If they do that, it's going to make it real hard for HTC and some of the other device makers to wrestle away mind share from the iPhone. It would certainly make it a lot more attractive to me. Assuming of course the price is right...
