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10 Jun 2008
Apple has finally lifted the lid on the highly anticipated 3G incarnation of its iPhone.
Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs made the announcement on Monday morning at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Known simply as 'iPhone 3G' the handset will feature a faster 3G wireless connection along with a new look and lower price tag.
Apple claims that the new 3G connection will be roughly 2.8 times as fast as the Edge wireless connection on the original iPhone.
The company also suggested that the new iPhone would run faster than other 3G handsets, claiming that it outperforms the Nokia N95 and Treo 750 by some 36 per cent.
The iPhone 3G will also feature support for GPS hardware, a curved all-plastic backing and a flush headphone jack rather than the recessed jack that limited accessory options with the original iPhone.
It will also add a new colour option, allowing users to purchase a white model rather than the classic black.
When Jobs first spoke of a 3G iPhone last summer, he cited battery life as a major hurdle. The company appears to have overcome that problem, packing a claimed 10 hours of 2G talk time and six hours of web browsing into the handset.
Apple plans to drop the price on the 16GB iPhone 3G to $299, while the 8GB iPhone will cost $199, roughly one third of the price for the handset on its release last June.
The iPhone will be released initially in 12 countries, including Hong Kong, India and Mexico for the first time. In later months, Apple plans to expand iPhone's reach to some 70 countries.
For the initial 12 countries, which includes the UK, Apple will make the iPhone 3G available on 11 July, slightly more than a year after the first iPhone debuted in the US.
"As we arrive at the iPhone's first birthday we are going to take it to the next level," Jobs proclaimed.
"We have taken everything we have learned and more, and we have created the iPhone 3G."
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Couldn't be better
Apple's technology is always upfront when speaking of mobile phones. Iphone is the new word for state of art cell phone.
Posted by: Lafa Drope 01 Jun 2010
Different carriers
I'm waiting for Apple to make the iPhone available through other wireless carriers, then i will get one.
Posted by: Denise Agan 10 Jun 2008
Good, bad & ugly
Good: Great !!!! GPS & 3G Bad: 2 pegapixel, still no flash Ugly: I don't see a front camera, how about video calling, since we have 3 G now !!!!
Posted by: rocosuave 10 Jun 2008
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Posted by: gabbby 10 Jun 2008
It couldn't be soon enough, Excellent News about the 3G iphone!
My 18-month contract with orange came to an end and although I had experienced great customer service as a premier customer I was bombarded with upgrade options or better deals in the hope that I would remain their customer. But no handset they were able to offer seemed an upgrade to the Sony Cyber Shot 3.2 mega pixel phone, i believed the only possible upgrade to a great phone is the gorgeous, all singing, all dancing iphone. (The TV adverts worked on me!) But just two days in and I was fed up - No MMS, can't forward text messages, blue tooth would not connect to anything other than a 60.00 pound iphone-earpiece which coinciedently you can't listen to music through, it won't plug into my ipod speakers, can't blue tooth contacts or images, camera blurs easily, no flash - can only take a picture of bright subject, web connection is slow, volume is low, speakers distort, the list goes on! I complained but nothing was done, I complained again but I was told I only had the first 14 days to complain - urrgghhh !!!! - I actually went out and bought an orange pay as you go sim for my old phone, now I have two phones to carry around. Don't get me wrong it's not all bad, the iphone does look amazing, the music system is great, the widgets are cool, (weather - stocks - map, etc.) and the user controls are incredible, far better than any other touch screen phone on the market that I have experienced. I was so frustrated to hear a new 3G iphone was soon to hit the market, I truly believed I was going to be dumped with just another ipod and have to pay out again for the latest model. But to here that it's FREE to tariff customers (45.00+) well that's music to my ears! I shall keep my fingers crossed that there's no hidden agenda, that apple is truly sorry for the pain and suffering it's put us iphone users/fans through and that the new 3G iphone is everything the original iphone is not and everything the ipod is. All the best Cole x
Posted by: Cole Stevens 10 Jun 2008