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Tomorrow is the kick-off of the Apple World Wide Developer Conference. Speculation has been rampant that Apple will announce the 3G iPhone tomorrow, and that it will be immediately available. I think it likely that an announcement will be made, but there hasn't been any FCC filing, so there can't be a new phone immediately available. But… there were stories back when the iPhone was first introduced to Apple Stores, that those who had taken apart their iPhone saw a 3G chip inside. There have been more recent stories that the iPhone 2 - the software & SDK - has the facility to turn 3G on and off to conserve battery. Maybe we already have 3G iPhones in our hands. And next week, we'll be able to turn them on.

What will the "one more thing" be? The iPhone or something more developer oriented? There are now rumors of the Mac Fusion, a small developer machine with the ability to run MacOSX, Windows & Linux through Boot Camp. OK, but you can do that today on any Mac. What would be exciting is if Boot Camp now has virtualization baked in so that you don't need to reboot to go from one operating system to the next. I do that now, with Parallels, but maybe this will be native to the machine, or include a Parallels, VMWare or Sun open source Virtual Box, but optimized for use with XCode making cross-platform development easy. That would be cool.

Maybe the "one more thing" will be more entertainment oriented, AppleTV & the iTunes store with newer, better features, maybe a DVR. Maybe not.

I really want the iNewton, iTablet, big iPhone or whatever. Actually, give me eReader, hand writing recognition (Ink?) and Documents to Go or that Palm emulator, and the iPhone would do it all for me.

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