We’ve all been reading and watching intently the latest iPhone rumours, all with different perspectives on the issue.

Marc, one of our user interface designers is most interested in the size of the device (you know men, always got size on their mind…):

“I find the current iPhone model just a little too cumbersome, so I love the idea of a slender iPhone that I can stick in my jeans pocket and just forget about, as covered by Jeremy Horwitz on iLounge. Sure, the upcoming smaller 2.8″-screen model is just a rumour at this point, but it would be a sensible move from Apple - the iPhone can’t be all things to all users. A product family makes complete sense to me.

If you’re an existing iPhone user you may have spotted a new version of our interface we just released into wild. It was our mission to create a rich, usable experience that is complementary to the iPhone’s native UI. We couldn’t help ourselves from sprinkling in some fancy Apple-style widgets in there. Just go to taptu.com on your iPhone to check it out.”

Meanwhile, I’m most excited about the faster 3G connection (assuming O2 doesn’t mess customers around). I unfortunately live in the middle of nowhere, where EDGE generally isn’t available, which means that I often find myself following a link on Twitter, which leads to a YouTube video, just to get a pop-up telling me that I must be on EDGE or wi-fi to be able to watch it.

On wi-fi, the iPhone’s a total gem, a great browsing device. Not so great on the input, even with my small hands, so the thought of an even smaller iPhone doesn’t appeal to me. On EDGE, it’s quite acceptable, but unleashing full HSDPA speeds in that device would make it even better. I don’t think I’ll be swapping my 6-months old iPhone for the 3G one purely on the speed factor, but if new features which I can’t get through software updates appear, you may find out I’m first in line for the new one.

Are you at all interested in the next iPhone release? Sick of the rumours already? Got your own theory on what’s coming up next?

We’ve just completed a first version of a Taptu Mobile Search API. It gives mobile site owners three main benefits:

• First, it will provide an easy way for mobile sites to get their content indexed by Taptu.
• Second, mobile sites will be able to present their content within Taptu search results as easy-to-browse, screen-sized summaries in the same way that Taptu does for all other content.
• Third, your mobile site will be able to access the Taptu engine to perform searches carried out by your users, creating a private search channel that shows only your content.

It uses the same high-performance, fault-tolerant clustered architecture as the main Taptu service, so it’s going to be super fast and super reliable. We’ve implemented this API using a standard SOAP-style interface, and we’re just beginning to trial it with mobile site owners. When we’ve got enough feedback from early users we will turn it into a full public API available directly from on www.taptu.com.

If you’re a mobile site owner and you’re keen to work with us on this, please contact me via Facebook or LinkedIn, or contact Vero via Facebook or Jaiku, or email us at api@taptu.com.