AT&T chief executive, Ralph De la Vega, unveiled a long list of intended future capabilities at the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday during his interview with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington (this was the same conversation that told of an application that AT&T is working on that will soon give way to an official iPhone 3G tethering solution.) 

De la Vega said, “Before a future version of Apple's iPhone wakes you up in the morning, it will have downloaded the morning's news feeds and sent a message to your coffee maker to begin brewing a fresh pot…If you'd rather read the morning news on your TV while you sip your fresh brewed cup of Joe, you'll be able to simply wave the handset towards the TV to throw the day's feeds up on the big screen.” 

But it does not even stop there, de la Vega told Arlington that with future versions of the iPhone you could lock the doors to your house, start your car and not worry about messing with your car radio because your music on your iPhone would automatically sync with your car’s stereo system. 

De la Vega also described how the iPhone would function in the work place, listing features such as easily orchestrating conference calls and how the iPhone will handle automatic translations in real time. 

If this all sounds a bit far fetched to you, you are not alone.  PC World's Mark Sullivan writes, "Some of this sounds pretty far-flung to me, and if this were some start-up company talking about these 'exciting new plans,' I'd probably take it with a grain of salt."  However he then acknowledges, "But in my experience, AT&T plays it pretty close to the vest on its future plans, and usually does what it says it will do, eventually." 

De la Vega also revealed that there are plans to begin using a new swath of 850 MHz spectrum to improve its 3G signal quality in densely populated areas like New York City. 

AT&T chief executive, Ralph De la Vega, unveiled a long list of intended future capabilities at the Web 2.0 Summit Thursday during his interview with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington (this was the same conversation that told of an application that AT&T is working on that will soon give way to an official iPhone 3G tethering solution.) 

De la Vega said, “Before a future version of Apple's iPhone wakes you up in the morning, it will have downloaded the morning's news feeds and sent a message to your coffee maker to begin brewing a fresh pot…If you'd rather read the morning news on your TV while you sip your fresh brewed cup of Joe, you'll be able to simply wave the handset towards the TV to throw the day's feeds up on the big screen.” 

But it does not even stop there, de la Vega told Arlington that with future versions of the iPhone you could lock the doors to your house, start your car and not worry about messing with your car radio because your music on your iPhone would automatically sync with your car’s stereo system. 

De la Vega also described how the iPhone would function in the work place, listing features such as easily orchestrating conference calls and how the iPhone will handle automatic translations in real time. 

If this all sounds a bit far fetched to you, you are not alone.  PC World's Mark Sullivan writes, "Some of this sounds pretty far-flung to me, and if this were some start-up company talking about these 'exciting new plans,' I'd probably take it with a grain of salt."  However he then acknowledges, "But in my experience, AT&T plays it pretty close to the vest on its future plans, and usually does what it says it will do, eventually." 

De la Vega also revealed that there are plans to begin using a new swath of 850 MHz spectrum to improve its 3G signal quality in densely populated areas like New York City. 

Let's see copy and paste first... Then perhaps MMS without all the headaches, then they can work on having it do all these crazy things like wipe your butt after you take a dump and whatever else ridiculous claims they made. 

this has become a joke.. i honestly think that they are not releasing copy and paste, flash player, mms, etc ONLY because in a year or so they will be releasing another iPhone with all these items and people will sell their 3G for the new iPhone. 

Apple make me laugh sometimes
They miss all the features we need but put in ridiculous features that hardly anyone will use! 
Lmao @ 1st post

Originally Posted by tha5150

this has become a joke.. i honestly think that they are not releasing copy and paste, flash player, mms, etc ONLY because in a year or so they will be releasing another iPhone with all these items and people will sell their 3G for the new iPhone. 

All these features should be in a major update, maybe 3.0, and a major update occurs at Keynotes or when a new will be released. 
They might put them in if the sales of the iPhone drops. 

I feel if they really want to attract new iphone owners they need to have the same functionality in the ippne apps as the non-iphones have. 
My wife son don't want the iphone because of the camera quality and messaging inability. 
If they fix wht people here have recommended, they would have 2 new customers.  Imagine how many others there are that are not moving tothe ipone for the same reasons. 

i already posted this once a long time ago, but now i'm going to do it again because it really amazes me... attached below, apple lisa, aprrox.  1983, check out that amazing edit menu.  but then again, wikipedia says these started at $9,999.. so maybe the iphone isn't worthy of copy/paste with its measly couple hundred dollar price tag

De la Vega said, “Before a future version of Apple's iPhone wakes you up in the morning, it will have downloaded the morning's news feeds and sent a message to your coffee maker to begin brewing a fresh pot…If you'd rather read the morning news on your TV while you sip your fresh brewed cup of Joe, you'll be able to simply wave the handset towards the TV to throw the day's feeds up on the big screen.” 

But it does not even stop there, de la Vega told Arlington that with future versions of the iPhone you could lock the doors to your house, start your car and not worry about messing with your car radio because your music on your iPhone would automatically sync with your car’s stereo system. 

De la Vega also described how the iPhone would function in the work place, listing features such as easily orchestrating conference calls and how the iPhone will handle automatic translations in real time. 

lets see...basically anything he said above would ultimately be limited by the terms of the app store and having full bluetooth....

Are these people serious?  The 3G Iphone still has bugs, no MMS, no Copy Paste, and ofcourse true push....and they are talking about this crazy cr*p.  Better camera with video, louder speaker, beter or removable battery plus whats mentioned above and they have a nearly perfect phone.  Once they have that down they they can start bs'ing us again.  Non the less my phone pisses me off time to time but i stil like it. 

The amount of rage in this thread is hilarious.  Waa waa copy/paste waa waa MMS

That said, what I found curious was the bit about real time transactions because that is available in certain Japanese phones.  You can tie your bank account to the phone then use RFID I think to pay fir stuff by just waving your phone in front of the cashier. 

Let's go ahead and fix what we have before we revolutionize it.  I'd love MMS, copy and paste, and a non-crippled Bluetooth stack, but I'd settle for a few less crashes and compatability with my Alpine first gen car sereo adapter. 

Don't even get me started on the disaster that is MobileMe.  If I got a nickel for every email that my iPhone recieved hours after my email account recieved it I could afford Microsoft stock.