Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Gizmodo also speculates upon ‘new sales policies’ for the 3G iPhone, suggesting different prices, subsidised prices, trade-up plans and a range of voice and data plans, all of which make sense considering it’s how most other phones are sold today.
The rumours of new iPhone features haven’t stopped either. The latest beta of the iPhone 2.0 firmware supposedly shows ‘geotagging’ features built in to both the Google Maps and the camera application.
For digital photography, this would allow the iPhone to record where your photos were taken, either through the expected built-in GPS module, or through phone tower triangulation, with the location of photos taken then able to be displayed on the Google Maps application.
It would let you – or others if photos are shared on the web – search for images based on the location they were taken in, although this feature – if implemented – is hardly unique, already possible on competing phones such as the Nokia N95 with suitable software and some Windows Mobile smartphone models.
Well, one thing’s for sure. The hype around the 3G iPhone has been built up so high that if Steve Jobs doesn’t deliver all users expects and leaves out major features, Apple’s share price could easily plunge on the very day it should rise, thanks to the 3G iPhone finally being delivered.
But predicting stock market movements is about as accurate as predicting what Steve Jobs will really do – you’d might be better off asking a clairvoyant although we don’t really recommend that either.
So, sit tight, enjoy the rampant ripples of raucous iPhone rumours, and if you haven’t already, start saving up, because the 3G iPhone should pack one heck of a powerful feature packed punch – if all these radical rumours are right!
David Bass
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