3G iPhone To Launch Mid-2008 Says UBS

Another day, another round of Apple speculation. Investment bank UBS said in a research note to clients today that Apple will launch a next-generation 3G iPhone sometime during mid-year 2008. The new 3G iPhone HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access) platform will include a “new systems solution” from German chipmaker Infineon, including a digital baseband controller, power management unit (PMU), and radio frequency (RF) module.

Hopefully we’ll get some more information about this next week at the iPhone SDK event on March 6th, but it’s likely we might not hear anything until Apple’s annual WWDC (Worldwide Developer’s Conference) in early June. One thing’s for sure, the hype around an upcoming 3G iPhone is likely to fire up excitement around the iPhone as much as the initial launch did last summer.