Hey, remember before the iPad announcement, when an exec from McGraw-Hill let slip that the tablet device was about to launch? And there were all those rumors that Jobs and Apple got really mad and excised McGraw-Hill from the launch event?
Well, regardless if they were true, you gotta' wonder what will happen to Robert Watson of Canadian wireless company SaskTel, who suggested the following:
"The good news is that (Apple) is coming out with a new version of the iPhone in the June time-frame and they're going to put us on that," Watson was quoted as saying. "So we're quite excited about that."
So, fine, we all know that a new iPhone is coming this summer. But to have an executive from a telecommunications company confirm that so openly is unusual, and seems to contravene Apple's well-known Stasi-like policy of secrecy and covert operations.
More to the point though, it just solidifies a series of rumors about the next revision of the iPhone, among the most exciting of which are a high-def screen, a similar A4 processor to the one found in the iPad and a front-facing camera for video-calls.
Still, if I were Robert Watson, I would be peering out of my windows at night...
[Source: Apple Insider]
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Navneet Alang is a Toronto-based technology and culture writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Republic and The Globe and Mail. Between 2010 and 2011 he wrote technology commentary for TECHi on Apple, cloud video and the future of the desktop computer.
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