WWDC, Apple's developer-oriented event, takes place on Monday, and this is where the last two generations of the iPhone have been announced.

Fingers crossed that they will stick to tradition and reveal the new version, which is rumoured to have a better camera, a magnetometer (fancy compass, basically), more storage, more RAM, possibly a front-facing camera for video calls and who knows what else. The new hardware is almost secondary to the new software, which will be available to all current iPhone owners (and iTouch owners too, for a price...). I covered that in more detail here.

I've been holding off getting an iPhone til the next version, so I'm hoping for a release date ASAP - the clever money is on a mid-July launch.

Also expected to be outed is the likely release date of the new version of the Macintosh operating system, Snow Leopard, which is full of refinements rather than new features. No doubt it'll be pretty well demonstrated during the keynote speech.