In a recent patent relating to mobile instant messaging, I came upon an interesting picture. In a couple of the pictures, it shows figure 164, which says Optical Sensor beside it. Why is this so interesting? Because it is on the front side of the device.

I dugg a bit deaper and found a couple refernces to 164, including a part detailing a CCD (charge-coupled device), or basicially a camera on the front of the device. If this proves to be true, can we expect to see a camera on the front of the iPhone? It also goes on and talks about video conferencing. I think this further points to 3G in the iPhone, as I am sure that EDGE would not be able to support mass video conferencing.

There also quite a few refrences to a GPS module, and quite a few other interesting parts to the patent. You can read it over at USPTO site.

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