July 11th is the date for the new iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0 upgrade.
Monday morning twitter was full of messages about iPhone 3G. The technology is here to get live streams to watch the announcement, yet google news, twitter and any real time microblogging was fast enough to bring the news to the people. No even Robert Scoble that decided to hang out to an Apple Store, guessing to buy one of those shiny little supper phones called the iPhone 3G. He is been in the frontier of the news, with chasing AT&T CTO around San Francisco to link every single news.
Best streams out there for the WWDC were:
However the best was Mac Rumors Live
So what’s the price and the new features?
- The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries. The maximum price around the world is $199 USD, $299 USD for the 16 GB
- GPS support now integrated into the iPhone.
- 3G has a longer battery life. Still cannot be removed.
- Even thinner, black plastic back, solid metal buttons, same display, camera, flush headphone jack, and dramatically improved audio.
- Enterprise support.
- Third party application support.
Also iPhone 2.0 to upgrade your old iPhone will be a download for FREE for iPhone owners and $9,99 for iTouch owners.
- iPhone 2.0 will be available in early for July, no date set as yet.
- Contact search with live searching. Full iWork document support. Complete support for Office documents (Word, Excel, and now PowerPoint)
- Bulk delete & move for messages
- Ability to save images you get. New calculator with scientific mode when you rotate the iPhone and parental controls.
I won’t be getting an iPhone 3G, my wife maybe when her contract with Verizon Wireless ends in August. I need to wait 1.5 years to get the new iPhone, maybe at that time the 4G is out ;-)
Cheers
Al
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