Kevin Rose says 3G iPhone will do 3G video chat with iChat
By Will Park on Monday, March 24th, 2008 at 12:39 PM PST In AT&T, Apple, Rumors, iPhone, iPhone OS
Kevin Rose, Digg founder and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) hardware prognosticator, just threw more fuel on 3G iPhone rumor-flames everywhere. It seems that having founded the uber-popular social-networking news site give Kevin Rose an inside line on some iPhone rumors.
Rose previously speculated on the iPhone’s initial release, citing sources that indicated the iPhone would launch with two battery compartments, slide-out keyboard, and both GSM and CDMA versions. All his predictions failed to materialize - but then again, that’s how the rumor-game goes.
Rose’s most recent sources point to the 3G iPhone rocking true-blue, two-way video chat over AT&T’s now-expanding 3G network. He says that the 3G iPhone will use a dual-camera setup (one camera on the rear for picture-taking duty and a front-facing cam under the multi-touch display glass) to get jiggy with video calls. Futhermore, the Digg founder claims that Apple is restricting third-party iPhone applications from running in the background in order to squash any potential competition to its iChat application - through which the iPhone is said to deliver its video chat goodness.
We’ll just have to wait and see. It’s looking like the 3G iPhone could be launching in a few months, so the wait may not be that long…
Before the IPhone 1.0 launch, Kevin said that it would have 2 batteries and would be a sliding phone with touch screen.
Duh! I don’t believe him! He only wants to create some buzz (he might hate this word)!
Regards,
Flavio
Kevin is and always has been a not so technically skilled TV personality.
More of a technical poser than anything else.
I give him props for the concept (if it was his) of Digg, because if it does sell to Google or MS, he’s going to make a killing.
Other than that, he has no credibility in anything else.
Interesting that AT&T has gone out of it’s way to remove the 2nd camera from the TyTn and TyTn II because they don’t support two way video calls, but would go out of their way to support a two-way video calls on an iPhone.
It’s most likely BS because AT&T isn’t very close to even supporting a 2 way video call.
Either that or I’m pissed off as hell that they castrated the TyTn but would support video call on the iCrap.
Oh wow, it MIGHT have video calling.. yawn… so.. what.. 2004/5?