Rumors about the next iPhone are swirling and new details that are reportedly about the screen on the device have slipped out. The new screen is said to use in-plane switching panels with fringe-field switching providing wider viewing angles with a 960 x 640 resolution.

Apple is now saying that Gizmodo has damaged its profitability with the leak of the iPhone 4G prototype. An attorney for Apple said that Gizmodo’s actions are “immensely damaging” to Apple profits.

Live object identification:  Somewhat similar to Nokia’s Point & Find service (its beta version, focusing on barcodes and cinema posters, is now available in the UK and US), just point your iPhone to a real object, your handset will recognize it.

Face detection and recognition: Apple patented the techniques on how to incorporate face recognition technologies into an iPhone, iMac and other devices. It can be used to manage the device’s priveleges and so on.

Text message filtering: This filtering can be applied to outgoing and incoming e-mails and other  messages, enabling users to manage keywords or setting up alter the objectionable texts.

Smarter messaging interface: It’s new messaging interface that help you sending messages to multiple recipients, alerting you if not all the messages get delivered. In these patent items, Apple also helps you dealing better with unread messages.

Changes voice output: It’s a patent app that describes the possibility of altering audio output from your iPhone. For instance: “a student listening to a lecture as a podcast file might want to change the audio of certain sections of the lecture to sound like someone else’s voice, so as to emphasize important parts of the lecture.”

[via UnwiredView]

Yes, that’s revealed based on recent Apple patent fillings. Some new patent applications include event-based modes, scheduled and intelligent communications.

Event-based modes: As shown by above picture, your iPhone 4.0 device could be able to automatically adapt to different locations and life events and reconfigure it’s settings – e.g. switch the sound off and turn on a voicemail when calendar shows that you are in the meeting.

Scheduled communications: somewhat similar to the one above, but describes a way for you to automatically schedule/preset communications activities based on calendar events, your location, caller id and other conditions.

Intelligent communications:  You can select appropriate communication modes for incoming communications requests based on a user’s preferences and availability. The device can determine the communication modes of a user based on the current activity and allow the user to provide customized information to his/her contacts.

[via Unwired View]