The talk of the town at the moment is Apple Tablet, but we shouldn’t forget about its smaller cousin, the iPhone. Its current iteration, iPhone 3GS, was a relatively small evolutionary step compared to the 3G model, and one has to wonder what Apple has in store with the next version.

According to Goldman Sachs’ Robert Chen, it won’t lack new features. “Apple’s going to put a lot of innovation, not just on the hardware, but also on the software of the new iPhone,” he said.

Specifically, this might mean a better camera (which is a very safe bet as far as predictions go), but also a sensitive back case, similar to the touch panel used for the Magic Mouse. A couple of days ago, Motorola introduced the Backflip, an AndroidAndroidAndroid smartphone that can be controlled via a touchpad on the back of the screen; dare we dream of something similar on the iPhoneiPhoneiPhone?

Apple, of course, doesn’t comment on “rumors and speculation.” But according to Chen, the new iPhone will go into production in April and should be available to consumers in June or July — just enough time for the rumor train to go into full speed.

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What’s important now is that Apple maintains their strategy and ensures that it stays ahead of the Google Nexus One. Although, latest reports state, “In the Google phone’s first week, it was outsold by the iPhone by a factor of 80 to 1″, so I don’t think Apple needs to worry too much!

After Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the 2008 MacWorld conference, Nokia soon announced the “Tube”, which is another name for what I’d call the iClone, as it’s literally a copy of the iPhone, well at least I think it is, what do you say?

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The All-New mophie ‘Juice Pack 3G’ is designed to more than double the time you can Rock, Talk, Surf and Send with your iPhone 3G

The Juice Pack is a rechargeable lithium polymer battery in the form of a non-slip, soft grip case. It doubles the uptime on your iPhone 3G in these ways (additional hours):

- Standby Time – Up to 350 hours

- Talk Time – Up to 6 hours on 3G | Up to 12 hours on 2G

- Internet Use – Up to 6 hours on 3G | Up to 7 hours on Wi-Fi

- Audio Playback – Up to 28 hours

- Video Playback – Up to 8 hours

Now that’s an impressive accessory!

In some circles the iPhone has been regarded as an expensive toy for teenagers. There are a number of things which seem “playful” on the phone and the iTunes Apps store has enjoying a rush of game downloads since its opening recently.

One does wonder then, is the iPhone capible of being a “business phone” as well ?

Mochasoft have released an iPhone Application which puts a positive score in the “yes” column. Mochasoft’s VNC client is able to connect to a VNC server (tested on RealVNC, TightVNC & UltraVNC) and allows a user to view a computers desktop remotely.

This enables people who are “on the go” to log on, from anywhere in the world, to a pre-configured computer that has an active internet connection and to interact with the desktop in a similar way as if they were sitting directly in front of that computer.

You might ask, who would use such a thing? – “I would” would be my 1st answer and here is why:

As an I.T. Support technician I am often required to be many places at the same time. The posibility would exist where I could log into my office computer, view invoices, client records, and email (even though it would possibly be easier to access it from the iPhones Email) etc – I would also be able to do the same for any remote clients who’s net work I support.

The software comes in two versions, a lite “free” version which has no support for the windows ctrl-alt-delete function, and has no right mouse click, and a paid version (approximately $6), which at the time of this article being published is currently subject to release after Apple’ software team’s review.

Read more about this at Mochasoft’s VNC page