Today at 1pm ET is Apple's WWDC 2009... the big conference where a turtle-neck-and-jeans-wearing Steve Jobs stands in front of a huge screen and unveils the next big Apple thing. Or things.

Today's conference is getting more buzz than usual for two reasons: 1 - There is talk that the ailing Jobs, who hasn't been seen in a while, will make the announcements himself... and 2 - The iPhone might be be getting some upgrades.

Now there's no consensus on what the new iPhone will have - or even if there is a new iPhone - but the Interwebs are all atwitter, and when there's Apple rumor smoke, there's usually fire.

Here are the most likely rumors to actually be unveiled as fact:

According to a lot of "leaked" images (including the one here from French site NoWhereElse.fr) the new iPhone will have a matte black shell, including an Apple logo that appears to be able to glow, like the one on their notebooks.

The new iPhone will have a better, front facing, camera, possibly with its own dedicated shutter.

There's also talk of a built-in video camera, which will enable video conferencing, or just more screwing around on Facebook.

What I am also hearing is that there will now be 4 phones in the line: with a 4GB and a 32GB joining the 8GB and 16GB.

One rumor has it that the 4G will start at $99 to try to recapture some market share that AT&T and Apple are losing to competitors undercutting the much more expensive iPhone, with their own handhelds with similar features. (Apparently AT&T has been on Aplle for a while to do this.)

After the conference is over, we'll see which of these rumors is true, and if we have a new iPhone to drool over.

Stay tuned.