When TechCrunch’sMichael Arringtonasked AT&T iPhone chiefRalph de la Vegawhat the iPhone of the future will face like , he arrest a small more than he bargained for . The two address in front of a heavy hearing at theWeb 2.0 Summitin San Francisco this week .

De la Vega let loose with a laundry list of future app and usage scenarios for the gimmick , which include the followers :

Before the iPhone wakes you up in the dawning with its alert clock , De la Vega says , it will have already stretch all of your daily intelligence feeds onto the phone . It will also have already beam a wireless message to your deep brown Divine to get the java ready . While you ’re sit there drinking your coffee , he say , you might decide that you ’d rather read your word on the TV screen ; so with a wave of the gimmick toward the TV , de la Vega say , you ’ll send your news prey wirelessly from the telephone to the television for show .

Now you leave the family , and use your iPhone to mesh the door on the way out . You get in the railcar . The iPhone starts your car . On the way to function , the iPhone continues reading your word to you using its text - to - address function .

Later on , at your office , the iPhone initiates a conference call between you and two likely customers in Japan . On the call , when you talk English , the iPhone translates it to Japanese so that your possible customers can infer you . When they suffice in Japanese , the iPhone converts their speech into English so you may understand them .

De la Vega allege there ’s a lot of experimentation and testing go away on in AT&T ’s science lab to integrate the iPhone withAT&T ’s character eye - base IPTV service , U - Verse . The iPhone will become a remote controller for the service , a scenario in which you ’ll use the machine ( and its on - screen keyboard ) to search for scheduling in U - Verse ( or presumably from the clear cyberspace ) , playing it either on the goggle box itself or on the iPhone . De la Vega did n’t go too much further into this , but we ’re get into that once the iPhone is integrate with the U - Verse TV service , the U - Verse DVR will become more and more like TiVo and the iPhone will control it either from the couch , or from across the area .

Some of this sounds pretty far - flung to me , and if this were some start - up company speak about these “ exciting unexampled plan , ” I ’d plausibly take it with a grain of salt . But in my experience , AT&T plays it jolly close to the undershirt on its future plans , and commonly does what it says it will do , eventually .

Arrington ask De la Vega if AT&T is working on establish anAndroid phone . De la Vega star silently out into the hearing . Arrington : “ Just blink once if the answer ’s yes . ” But De la Vega did not seize with teeth .

Arrington asked De la Vega what A&T plans to do when itsexclusive iPhone transcription with Apple expires in 2010 . De la Vega passed on that head too . “ I ’m not wink , ” he enjoin .

During the Q&A , an hearing appendage call for De la Vega what AT&T planned to do about areas like New York City where the 3 G mesh reporting is spotted . Beyond its normal internet upgrade process , AT&T says it will start using a novel swath of 850MHz spectrum to deliver a clearer , stronger signal in thickly populated areas . De la Vega also says his companionship will be marketplace testingfemtocell technologyin some market in 2009 ; femtocell gimmick tie to wireless broadband networks indoors and help boost the connections of wireless gimmick like the iPhone .

In other iPhone news , AT&T allege tethering is coming presently to an iPhone near you .