Apple Sets Date for WWDC 2010

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It’s almost 2010, folks, so we have to start thinking about the new year and what it will bring us. We know for sure that Apple is going to launch a new iPhone. Well actually we don’t know that for sure but we assume that Cupertino will want to upgrade the iPhone 3GS in 2010.

It’s too early to talk about the next-gen iPhone although various rumors surrounding it have already emerged. The next-gen iPhone is rumored to arrive with more memory on board and analysts expect it to also come with CDMA support for Verizon. Like always, Apple hasn’t confirmed any of this and it will surely not spill the beans on the new iPhone until the next WWDC.

But what Apple did was to schedule its next WWDC. The Moscone Center Calendar has a “Corporate Event” scheduled from June 28, 2010 through July 2, 2010 in the Moscone West Hall. Well it might all be a coincidence but Apple has used the same title to book previous events at the Moscone Center so we can assume that we’re talking about the WWDC 2010 here.

It looks like the 2010 iPhone will arrive a little later than its older brothers. Is Apple waiting for the exclusivity agreement with AT&T to expire? The original iPhone arrived on June 29, 2007 and that’s also when a 3-year partnership between Apple and AT&T started. The fact that the agreement will expire next June might explain the late Moscone Center reservation.

It’s either that or Apple has some difficulties with the next-gen iPhone which could prevent it to launch the new phone at the beginning of June 2010.

The rumored future partner of Apple, Verizon, hasn’t commented on a possible CDMA iPhone. But Verizon officials did claim that the network could handle the iPhone and the extra traffic that comes with the device.

And let’s not forget that T-Mobile is also rumored to launch the iPhone at some point in the future so we might be in for quite a surprise come next June.