Apple Planning £99 iPhone Wireless HDMI Base Unit?

The move will provide the smartphone with enough oomph to crunch resource intensive HD footage and even 3D-Intensive content including full-on games.

The current two-year old Apple TV equipped with a 40GB hard disk drive, a 1GHz Pentium M ULV and 256MB memory costs £169 and it is likely that Apple brings the price of the device closer to £100.

It comes with a remote control, HDMI, Component Video, Optical Audio and Analogue RCA stereo audio ports on top of that it comes with a USB port and 802.11n WiFi.

There are also rumours that the iPhone 2009 could come with an improved version of the Palm Pre Touchstone charger which can power a smartphone wirelessly which would make it more than likely that the base unit will also double as a recharging bay.

The next version of the iPhone is expected to be launched in June 2009 and is not expected to feature any killer-feature. Instead, Apple look set to concentrate on ramping up the ecosystem surrounding the iPhone by adding new applications and new peripherals.