Computerworld is reporting that Apple is looking to bring iPhone OS to new devices beyond iPhone, iPod Touch and recently launched iPad based on a Apple Job listing posted last week.

Apple is looking for “Engineering Manager (Platform Bring-Up)” and as per the job listing, requires the employee to lead a team of engineers working with hardware and “custom silicon” teams to bring-up new platforms and prototypes.

The Core Platform team within Apple’s Core OS organization is looking for a talented and inspired manager to lead a team focused on bring-up of iPhone OS on new platforms. The team is responsible for low level platform architecture, firmware, core drivers and bring-up of new hardware platforms. The team consists of talented engineers with experience in hardware, firmware, IOKit drivers, security and platform architecture.

Computerworld speculates that Apple could bring the iPhone OS to devices like Apple TV, enterprise-class Time Capsule micro-server offerings and others.

Two years down the road, other low ends of the Apple Mac line might get eaten up by the Apple processor/iPhone OS. Mac Mini and Mac Book, I am looking directly at you. Once there is an iPhone OS running the TV and the MacBook Air segments, it isn’t a great leap to expect to see it in low end Macs.

It does make sense for Apple to take advantage of iPhone OS and bring it to devices like AppleTV. I like the idea of being able to play iPhone games or use some of the 150,000 or more iPhone apps onto a beautiful 60-inch HDTV.

- source: blogs.computerworld.com

iResQ, an iPhone/iPod repairing company, has published what appears to be parts for next generation’s iPhone. The iPhone 4G may be taller than what we’re all used to, judging from the pictures the different is slight and fortunately, not major.

The front panel on the iPhone 4G has a different design than what we know, aside from the taller form factor, there appears to be small reflective ‘window’ above the speaker which may be used for the proximity sensor. The digitizer and LCD also have a different design than the iPhone 3G and 3GS model; they are factory glued like the one found on the iPhone EDGE/2G. The front panel is 1/4″ (6.35mm) longer than the iPhone 3GS.

Remember, this is just a rumor. Apple has not yet released the device so the end product may be completely different than what you are looking at right now.

- source: iresq.com

Digg.com’s Kevin Rose has a great track record on being right about rumors, including Apple iPhone rumors . During a live taping of Diggnation, Kevin Rose revealed details about the expected “Copy and Paste” functionality in the upcoming iPhone 3.0.

From MacRumors:

According to Rose, to invoke Copy and Paste, you simply double tap on the word, and a magnifier bubble will appear with two quotes that you can drag around your selection. Once you make your selection, you can copy, paste or cut. Rose has been accurate in the past with details about upcoming Apple product revisions. As well, we have also heard that Copy and Paste will be arriving in 3.0 alongside a much improved homepage/springboard with the ability to organize in categories.

While BoyGeniusReports claims that the upcoming highly anticipated iPhone firmware 3.0 will have features everyone has been craving for since the launch of the iPhone, yeah, you know what I’m talking about right? Right, MMS, Tethering via USB and Bluetooth, and copy/paste — No mention of A2DP or Flash

MMS will allow users to send photos not only via email but via SMS which would be awesome, while tethering will allow you to share your iPhone’s internet connection (3G or EDGE) with your Mac or PC.

Thirdly, Macworld’s John Gruber gives us an interesting report which is labeled his iPhone 3.0 “wish list”

First, a new home screen app (a.k.a. SpringBoard), designed from the ground up for a system where users have a few dozen or more extra apps installed. Managing dozens of apps on the iPhone today is simply a pain in the ass. Second, maybe an answer to the question of where the background notification API is you know, the one we were told at WWDC to expect a few months ago, but which we haven’t heard a word about since. And maybe pretty please, Mr. Forstall, with sugar on top copy and paste.

We have good reason to believe that we may see some of those features in the new iPhone firmware. A revised Springboard (Home screen) could allow us heavy iPhone users to have more applications and have them better organized, and that would be awesome! The push notification solution would be helpful if you use instant messaging a lot.

Apple will reveal what’s really in the iPhone 3.0 software update tomorrow at 10AM Pacific. Stay tuned!

Ever wondered what happened to the Push Notification service Apple had promised at the end of September 2008? Apple had announced this service at their Worldwide Developer’s Conference back in June. Apple removed the feature from beta versions in August and has made no other mention of the service. Steve Jobs is reported to have told one customer that the feature was “running a bit late” and that they wanted to get it 100% right the first time.

Currently, Apple does not allow 3rd party applications to run on the background. Apps must completely shut down before starting a new application. Push notifications was Apple’s solution to allow applications to receive notices while they are not the active application. Certain services, such as Instant Messaging, would benefit greatly from this feature.

So, the deadline for this push notification service was September 2008 and we’re at February 2009 currently, clearly something is holding up the service from seeing the light of day. While no official announcement has been made, speculation is being made that Apple is going to allow Apps on the upcoming rumored iPhone 3.0 firmware. On current hardware processes may be limited to one or two processes (that is, one or two apps running in the background) The next generation iPhone, however, would likely see less restricted background process support due to its improved hardware.