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$US99 iPhone slated for midyear

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No major changes, it seems. He suggests it will be a little thinner, the camera resolution may be improved in addition to supporting video, and the screen resolution may be doubled to 720 x 480 pixels.

That's not much to get excited about, although it would remove one common criticism of the iPhone - that it doesn't allow video recording.

And a screen resolution change could present issues with the 20,000 or so applications for the iPhone. How many of them have been written to be resolution-independent?

Hardly any, I suspect. In any case, resolution doesn't seem to be a concern for any of the iPhone owners I know.

In a market that seems to be driven by people's inclination to replace their phone every year or so, there doesn't seem to be much prospect that such minor changes to the iPhone will drive handset upgrades.

Some much-requested features such as MMS could be added through software updates to existing iPhones.

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