Apple previews icon of iPhone video chat app? Probably not.
As you can see from the series of twelve icons above, only four of them are definitively app icons (Maps, Calendar, Photos, and Messages), four are icons for new iPhone OS 4.0 services or features (multitasking, iAd, Game Center, and Enterprise), while the last known three are standerd developer icons (the lock, the x-ray applications icon, and the iPhone pref file).
Of course, it's likely that the remaining camera icon is just referencing the access developers have to the iPhone's video recording software and hardware. We've gotten quite a few emails about this, though, so we are posting this in the interest of pure speculation only.
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On their Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 page, Apple has posted a series of icons, one of which looks like it could be the new icon...
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Good on TUAW for putting it to rest — obviously Apple wouldn't accidentally spill the beans like that. Just imagine how many levels of approval things like this have to go through!
April 30 2010 at 11:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYOU GUYS ARE PATHETIC
http://www.apple.com/iphone/#gallery-video-recording
Are we calling it the "4g iPhone?" Chances are it will not be 4g for another year or two.
April 29 2010 at 3:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyLooks like the camcorder app icon to me:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/camcorder-for-iphone-3g-and-2g/id333188712?mt=8
That's 5 app icons, not 4. Game Center has it's own app in iPhone OS 4.0 (it doesn't do much right now)
April 29 2010 at 2:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyNot for nothing but "...last known three are stander developer..." I think you meant "...last known three are standard developer..."
LOL...
Even the fix is wrong. It's standArd. Hmmm...professional writer and editor? Someone needs to actually USE the spell check option.
It (and most of those other icons) comes from this iPhone OS 4 developer page. And you're correct, it's highlighting the APIs that offer devs access to video playback and capture.
http://developer.apple.com/technologies/iphone/whats-new.html
It's been on Apples website since the launch of the 3GS.
Click the camera icon to see a larger version.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
Nah that's an guy holding one of those old time hearing cones up to his ear.
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