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Rumors are swirling around a possible July 17 release date for the next generation iPhone. The 17th dovetails nicely with the timing of Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, which is centered this year primarily around developing applications for the iPhone OS. It also puts the next-gen iPhone more than a month behind the release of the hotly anticipated Palm Pre, which goes on sale June 6.
TUAW posts another set of rumors as well: the new iPhone will feature an OLED screen , and the Apple logo on the back of the device will be illuminated when the screen is on as well as double as a camera flash. That the iPhone could benefit from a camera flash is widely acknowledged, but as TUAW notes an OLED really doesn’t benefit much from having a backlit panel. Other potential upgrades coming in the next iPhone include a better camera, more storage, video recording, a magnetometer (better known as a compass), and a built-in compass.
All of these rumors look more or less legit, at least insofar as these are features Apple could include. There are some caveats, though. While an FM transmitter would enable iPhone users without a docking transmitter, it would render a number of third-party peripherals obsolete, and Apple might not want to go out of its way to anger its famous iPhone ecosystem. We’ll just have to wait and see how this all pans out.
