It’s a great life being an analyst: you get to make predictions about upcoming technology products citing your sources in Asian manufacturing plants, and nobody remembers later if you turn out to be wrong. Now that’s a good job. Of course, analysts are often bang on the mark too, which is why us bloggers are so keen to report their every prediction.
So, Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey has been talking about Apple’s plans for 2008, and he reckons the company will actually release two new iPhone models next year. One will be the long-rumoured 3G model, which is likely to have “a similar form factor as the current version although it could have a different look”. However, he predicts it won’t go on sale until the second half of the year, which contradicts previous speculation.
What’s the other new iPhone then? Don’t get too excited: Bailey claims that it’ll be a refresh of the current mode, with more flash memory inside, and that it’ll come out earlier in 2008. 16GB would be just fine – nudging over the tipping point to be able to hold many average users’ entire music collections.
(via Pocket Lint)
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