John Gruber of Daring Fireball speaks out about what the next generation iPhone revision will include. His list of details closely match with circulating rumors.

Gruber believes the next iPhone processor will indeed be a next generation processor that will be disproportionately faster than clock speed alone would have you believe. Indeed, we’ve heard that the next iPhone will use the Cortex processor.

Let’s say the rumors are right — and I believe they are — that the next-generation iPhone’s CPU will be running at 600 MHz. In the same way that, say, a 90 MHz Pentium was more than 1.5 times as fast as a 60 MHz 486, the 600 MHz CPU in the next iPhone will be more than 1.5 times as fast as the current 400 MHz iPhone CPU.

Along with 128MB of additional RAM (256MB total), this should improve app launching times, faster web browsing, and overall better performances which is always a good thing. Storage will also increase to a max of 32GB.

He also suggests that the new case changes will be subtle and retain the current iPhone’s form factor. Circulating rumors of a magnetometer and video editing are also believed to be true:

What the new iPhone’s video capabilities might lack in terms of image and sound quality will be made up for by two things: convenience and software. Convenience in that the best camera is the one you have with you, and if you’ve always got your iPhone, you’ve always got a camera; software in that iPhone OS 3.0 is set to include basic video editing (think: selecting just the good parts) and uploading features that regular cameras, which aren’t computers and which aren’t networked, just can’t match.

Much of what Gruber reported has been circulating around the internet, but he’s known to have accurate sources in past so we’ll see how things turn out. Apple is expected to announce the new iPhone at WWDC, which takes place June 8-12th in San Francisco.

Stay tuned!

- source: daringfireball.net