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Steve Jobs promised us a week ago that we will be getting a new update for the iPhone 3G by today. He mentioned that the update will fix a lot of glitches. Here is what Steve had to say about it:

It fixes lots of bugs. You’ll get fewer call drops, you will get significantly improved battery life for most customers. We have fixed a lot of bugs where [when] you have a lot of apps on the phone, you’re not gonna get some of the crashes that we’ve seen

Well, if it’s all true then I can’t wait to get my hands on it. I personally think Apple should have been more open with its loyal customers about the issues instead of giving the runaround, but the fact that they are working hard to fix these issues gets them some brownie points in my opinion. But it’d be extremely upsetting if this dropped call thing continued after today.

Via ComputerWorld

iPhone atlas is reporting that Apple has just released a new version of its SDK for iPhone and iPod touch. The new SDK seems to be targeted towards application developers who will be writing programs for the iPhone OS 2.1.1. There are no mentions of major improvements with this release.

Via iPhone Atlas

With the iPhone coming out in a couple of weeks, one needs to wonder the direction that will be going with the iPod touch. Till now, iPod touch has been the poor man’s iPhone. If you can’t afford the service plan but want to have a cool wifi digital media player, iPod touch is there. But with iPod touch and iPhone being almost identical (except the phone and a few other features), wouldn’t it better to combine the two devices into one?

I believe that the age of us having to have an MP3 Player, a Phone, a Camera, and … in differnet devices is really coming to an end. People want to have an all-in-one solution on the go. iPod touch is not the iPhone, but there is always a possibility of product cannibalization when you are dealing with brother and sister device such as the iPod Touch and the iPhone. Why not offer iPhones to people with the option of not activating the device. In essence, instead of having an iPod touch for people to buy, why not just offer them iPhones. If they don’t activate them, then it will be just a music player with Wifi and Camera. I am sure Apple does not want to do that right now with all the precautions that its taking to make people buy the 2 year service contracts from AT&T. But the future of iPod Touch and iPhone looks awfully similar. In fact, for one of these devices, there may not be a future after all.

Actually, it seem the answer is both dates. Essentially, iPhone 2.0 will be presented by Stevy Jobs on June 9th. However, AT&T and Apple store will start selling it a week or so later. Strange, but that’s what iPhone’s blog is claiming. Of course, some of us will be pulling our hairs out until the phone beccomes available in stores.

Finally, we have a definite date to work with for the iPhone release. There have been so many rumors about when iPhone is going to be released, but now the consensus seems to be on June 9th, WWDC. The good news is that iPhone will be treated similarly to other smartphones as far as price and discounts are concerned. Apple is also promising that more iPhones will be in stock which is great news as who would want to sleep in the streets like people did last time to get their hands on the iPhone.