Apple iPhone 3.0 rumor roundup

Heard any good iPhone 3.0 rumors lately? No? That's because they're all here in this tidy little roundup. The latest (pictured above) is a purported top-facing bezel frame for the "Apple iPhone 3Gen 2009." Besides being black unlike the chrome edge of the iPhone 3G, iLounge and others have noticed a repositioned ear speaker, tucked high against the top-edge that could be making way for a front-facing camera or additional sensor(s). iLounge also created a render (pictured after the break) of a 5th gen iPod nano based on information provided by a source who "has a perfect track record for accuracy." In addition to a slightly larger screen with 1.5:1 aspect, there's now a camera on the back; a redesign that dovetails nicely with rumors about Apple to getting serious with integrated video and digital cameras. iLounge also claims that there will be three new models (3G, enhanced 3G, and mainland China version lacking WiFi we suspect) of iPhones with matte plastic bodies less prone to scratching. Importantly, countries will get the phone appropriate to their telco's capabilities -- iLounge says users won't have to choose between a fast and slow iPhone, they'll get what their carriers can support. Each will ship in a choice of two capacity options with 32GB being the top-end rumored. Oh, and iPhone 3.0 will also get into the Nike+ game without requiring an adapter (like the iPod touch). These rumors ride a wave of reports that inventories of the iPhone 3G are running low and component makers are now shipping parts for the next generation iPhone. So Steve Jobs or not, we're still expecting the hardware to be announced at WWDC with possible July 17 launch.

Read -- iPhone 3.0 bezel (via iFun.de)
Read -- iPod nano with camera renders, three versions of iPhone 3.0
Read -- PCB makers begin shipments for new iPhone
Read -- Nike+
Read -- 16GB iPhone 3G listed as End of Life
Read -- 32GB iPhone 3G

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2009 6:12AM]

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[superhobo Posted May 28th 2009 6:31AM]

You blew it. Seriously you could've had an article for each of these rumors.

And so many more fanboy battles.

[Joao Cagao Posted May 28th 2009 7:40AM]

and so many more topics for you to post on.

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2009 7:53AM]

So many more for you to troll upon

[Imran Posted May 28th 2009 6:50AM]

Give us a goddamn slide out keyboard! ( For the iphone not the nano)

[M Posted May 28th 2009 7:08AM]

You're forgetting one thing, while you and I and the rest of the gadgetblogs reading internetsurveillers are drooling over tegra and the potential of a 9400m in your pocket, consumers don't know squat about what's happening in the mobile phone world. Many even believe Apple invented the touchscreen phone, heck even the smartphone. Unsavy tech buyers are like crows, they want to buy something shiny and apparently with a fruit logo on it. Next year when Apple drops a tegra iPhone, for them it will be Apple that invented it. The power of marketing my friend...

[M Posted May 28th 2009 11:16AM]

this comment system is so damn bad, Engadget when are you going to fix it!

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2009 7:43AM]

Why will there be a mainland China version without Wi-Fi? Doesn't make sense...

[llama21 Posted May 28th 2009 7:52AM]

Doesn't make sense? As in the government doesn't allow it...What more sense do you want?

[wtfapple Posted May 28th 2009 8:52AM]

The new iPhone is a complete fail for me because I enjoy taking pictures with my 5mp phone and 3.2 just isn't cutting it for me. I wait for a decent Android qwerty with good cam.

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2009 9:50AM]

you're a complete fail if you think that a 3.2mp cameraphone that you've never even used is DEFINITELY worse than that 2 year old 5mp cameraphone you have.

We'll just have to wait and see. There's a lot more to a camera than mp. If they give it a GOOD flash, give it a physical button to take the picture, give it video with editing capabilities, that's good enough for me.

I'm not saying that the current iphone camera doesn't suck ass. I'm just saying that we'll have to wait and see whether the new one does too.

[Celicynd Posted May 28th 2009 11:04AM]

So.. if Nike+ comes with the new iPhone, how are people going to keep saying that you shouldn't be exercising with your iPhone and that its your fault the moisture detection strips went off?

[MerchantMilan Posted May 28th 2009 11:17AM]

I was thinking the same thing. That's apparently what happened to mine...or maybe I spilled beer on it...

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2009 1:43PM]

Makes sense to 'tier' the iphone offerings. I can see the marketing gurus at work:

"Me too tier 1": Apple commercials are too cool. I wanta iphone to be like the cool college kids. Though I can only afford a $39 phone plan with my night shift job. It's a $99 iphone w/2yr plan. This is also the 'gamers' phone--A better graphics chip will give Nintendo a run for it's money.

"Me too tier 2": Every VP at work has a MacBookPro and iPhone with those cool apps. I want one too and all those cool apps. It's a $189 iphone w/1yr plan. This is the Palm Pre' and Android fighter... and will likely lose as the carriers will be Apple's achilles heel.

"Me too tier 3": Every [yuppie] peer has one, U2's Bono gives the Apple iPhone "the thumbs up". I love Apple stuff (have Apple TV, MacBook Air, iMac, iPod Nano already). It's a $249 iphone w/2yr plan and all the eye candy and cache you can get from Apple. YOU are the commercial. 32GB version, some design distinction (remember the glowing Apple logo rumor!), maybe a Palm-touchstone-like base station, and maybe, just maybe OLED.

[waterwagen Posted May 28th 2009 2:46PM]

If they come out with an iPod Touch with an OLED screen and a camera, I'm buying it as long as it's less than $1000.

[(Unverified) Posted May 28th 2009 4:14PM]

Does a new IPhone mean a new IPod Touch?

[leemahi Posted Jul 6th 2009 10:34AM]

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