iPhone's twelfth icon to be "Movies"?

Various blogs have been noticing that there's a bit of an icon gap on the mockup of the iPhone.

"It would be so unlike design-obsessed Apple to leave all that space there," says ZDNet.

Gizmodo reckons that the icon space might be used for YouTube, but Russell Shaw thinks it will be more generic than that.

Movies.

The fact that The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Apple is in talks with at least one major movie studio (Viacom) about offering movies for rental and online viewing via iTunes could mean that capability might be added to the iPhone to receive these movies via transfer from a user’s iTunes, and then store these movies on the device for the duration of the rental period.

Obviously there would be storage size issues but with the play life of the movie being only a few days, there might be a way to either shrink the file size after expiration, or let users delete expired movies from the iPhone anyway.

Not impossible. Perhaps we'll find out more at Steve Jobs' WWDC07 keynote.

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