3G iPhone is being prepared by Apple

3G iPhone is being prepared by Apple. As a follow-up to the last post, 3G iPhone + Video Chat with iChat, that's Kevin Rose's prediction. We heard another rumor about 3G iphones. Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney believes that Apple has just placed a 10 million unit-strong order for another round of iPhones. The significance being that the new batch of iPhones are most likely the 3G version of the iPhone.

It wouldn't make sense for Apple to order another 10 million of the current iPhone, so if the new iPhone production order is true, it would most assuredly be an order for mostly (if not exclusively) 3G iPhones.

Dulaney indicates that the 3G iPhone will also employ a new display technology. The multi-touch capacitance touchscreen technology that has been used to tremendous success in the iPhone may just be mated to an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display on the 3G iPhone.

The use of an OLED display should allow the 3G iPhone to shed some girth - a thinner OLED display panel ultimately means a thinner 3G iPhone. The OLED display also lacks a backlight, making it significantly more power-efficient than the current LCD display and allowing for increased battery performance - especially important, considering the greater battery drain imposed by 3G/HSDPA chipsets.