Wednesday, June 20, 2007

iPhone countdown: More announcements?

As can be seen on the iPhone landing page, there seems to be space open for several additional product features/attributes. Given yesterday's announcement regarding battery and screen improvements, there is a good chance more news will be coming from Cupertino by next Friday. Below are my thoughts on what those might be:
  1. There hasn't been much mention of the camera since the January Stevenote. I think it's likely that Apple has incorporated a higher megapixel camera and/other camera features in the past few months.
  2. The Bluetooth Headset also has had minimal exposure.
  3. A universal remote feature that would allow the iPhone to interact with Front Row-equipped computers and other products such as Apple TV. I'd love to use it as a presentation remote in the classroom and to control my iMac at home. I don't think it will be long before Apple gets into the home automation space anyway.
Also, I would love for the phone to have OCR software that allows the user to take a picture of a business card and have the data automatically added to Address Book. The software exists for other PDAs already.

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