iPhone 3G to launch on July 11th
22/06/08 16:40
Major price cut announced...
Apple have announced the release of the second generation iPhone, the iPhone 3G. It's due to arrive in Ireland, and 21 other countries, on July 11th. The announcement was made at the WWDC conference in San Francisco, where Apple also demonstrated its new iPhone OS X. This will be a free upgrade for current iPhone owners, and a paid download for iPod touch users.
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Here are some of the differences between the original iPhone models and the new iPhone 3G model:
Many of the more exciting changes come in the software, rather than the hardware. Our own view is that Apple has not stung the original iPhone buyers by launching a dramatically changed model. Instead these are all refinements, and the new iPhone OS X can be run on both versions. There are no changes to the camera resolution, screen size or resolution, and the buttons and external appearance (other than the colour) remains almost untouched.
In software, the iPhone will now fully support Exchange servers, and Apple repackaged its .Mac service and calls this new offering "MobileMe". MobileMe is "Exchange for the rest of us", and marries the older .Mac services with new push email, push contacts and push calendars. Simply put, your information will sync itself, so that you are up-to-date when on the move. You don't have to wait until you get back to the office to sync contacts- they sync wirelessly after any changes, and emails arrive on the iPhone within a few seconds of them reaching your server.
One of the more dramatic changes comes in the price. The iPhone will costs $199 (8GB) and $299 (16GB), which converts to approximately 130 euro (100 GBP) and 190 euro (152 GBP). This is a very large drop from the 299 euro and 399 euro prices when the iPhone was launched in Ireland in March.
More details available from Apple Store for Ireland or the Apple Store for the UK and you can check out our iPhone page here.
Simon Spence/2008
Apple have announced the release of the second generation iPhone, the iPhone 3G. It's due to arrive in Ireland, and 21 other countries, on July 11th. The announcement was made at the WWDC conference in San Francisco, where Apple also demonstrated its new iPhone OS X. This will be a free upgrade for current iPhone owners, and a paid download for iPod touch users.
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Here are some of the differences between the original iPhone models and the new iPhone 3G model:
- it's in the name! The new iPhone 3G comes with a 3G wireless chip, and so takes advantage of the faster 3G network. This should make web browsing far easier
• the iPhone 3G is slightly thinner and longer (now 115.5x62.1x12.3mm versus 115x61x11.6mm)
• slightly lighter: 33g versus 35g
• there will be a choice of colour- white or black
• it comes with a new, smaller USB power adapter
• stand-by time is now 300 hours
• comes with assisted GPS for Google Maps
• new standard headphone socket
Many of the more exciting changes come in the software, rather than the hardware. Our own view is that Apple has not stung the original iPhone buyers by launching a dramatically changed model. Instead these are all refinements, and the new iPhone OS X can be run on both versions. There are no changes to the camera resolution, screen size or resolution, and the buttons and external appearance (other than the colour) remains almost untouched.
In software, the iPhone will now fully support Exchange servers, and Apple repackaged its .Mac service and calls this new offering "MobileMe". MobileMe is "Exchange for the rest of us", and marries the older .Mac services with new push email, push contacts and push calendars. Simply put, your information will sync itself, so that you are up-to-date when on the move. You don't have to wait until you get back to the office to sync contacts- they sync wirelessly after any changes, and emails arrive on the iPhone within a few seconds of them reaching your server.
One of the more dramatic changes comes in the price. The iPhone will costs $199 (8GB) and $299 (16GB), which converts to approximately 130 euro (100 GBP) and 190 euro (152 GBP). This is a very large drop from the 299 euro and 399 euro prices when the iPhone was launched in Ireland in March.
More details available from Apple Store for Ireland or the Apple Store for the UK and you can check out our iPhone page here.
Simon Spence/2008
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