Apple iPhone 3.0 : 10 Things You Need To Know

O2's impending iPhone discount can only mean one thing; the next version of Apple's iconic smartphone will be available in the second half of June 2009. 

On the 15th of April last year, they shaved £100 off the then £269 price of the 8GB iPhone. The deal expired in June and the iPhone 3G was then launched on the 11th of July. This year, the cut, roughly worth around the same amount, will happen at the beginning of April.

It is therefore high time to look into 10 features and specifications that the next generation iPhone is expected to have.

(1) Nomenclature

How will this iPhone be called? Well, no surprise here, expect it to be called the iPhone. No 2009, no 4G or iPhone 3.0. Apple's naming scheme has not and will not change.

(2) OLED Screen

An iPhone with an OLED screen is not to be discounted according to some sources and LG will possibly be the one building it. The new OLED display will apparently have an additional layer which will eliminate greasy finger markings. 

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(3) 32GB Internal memory

This is a certainty, a 32GB iPhone will be coming. It will be available for a premium and it is unlikely that the 8GB version will be on sale. The storage bump means that the iPhone will have significantly more memory than the competition. Only the Nokia N97 and N96 currently have inbuilt storage capacity greater than 32GB.