Apple iPhone Engineer Job Listing Requires GPS Experience. Hmm… [Cellphones]

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Guys! I don't know if you heard, but apparently there's a new version of this cellphone by Apple called the iPhone coming out next month! The rumor is that it'll come with GPS, allowing for new geotagging-related features, among other things. Adding quite a bit of heft to that rumor is a recent job listing by Apple for an iPhone Product Design Engineer. One of the "preferred experience[s]"? "Integration of wireless antenna (GSM, GPS, Wi-Fi) into mechanical enclosures." GPS! Boy howdy! But wait, isn't it a little late to start that job hunt on this go-around? Oh, so many questions! Is anyone else more excited to stop looking for breadcrumbs come June 9th than excited about the actual phone, or is that just me? [Apple via The Inquirer]

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Except all the evidence suggests that unless Apple has worked out how to produce cold fusion in a phone battery (or maybe nailed superconductivity) any kind of GPS system doing anything on the iphone is going ot put the battery life at about 20 minutes. Even 3G was kept out of the first version because it was felt that the battery performance was so bad that the project would be wrecked.