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TAG | The 3G iPhone cometh... soon? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Sunday, 06 April 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 4 Engadget has a video link to Mossberg casually explaining at a Beet.TV executive summit that the 3G iPhone will be here soon, leading plenty to wonder if the iPhone 2.0 firmware will come with an official iPhone 2.0 – i.e., the 3G iPhone. Such speculation is of course very bad for sales of the existing first generation, 2G iPhone. If you’ve waited until now to purchase an iPhone, and still haven’t bought one, why would you bother now? Surely you’d just tough it out with your existing phone, whatever it is, that little bit longer, to see if Steve Jobs really will bring the 3G iPhone down the mountain. I’ve had iPhone since August 2007, so if a new 3G model comes out in June as predicted, I won’t be annoyed but instead, very happy. But I’m not sure that people who bought a 2G iPhone last month would be quite as overjoyed. A Mobilitysite article points to others on the web that discuss several of the 3G iPhone rumours, one of which has the back of a supposed 3G iPhone all in black plastic. This is supposedly so that the iPhone’s many wireless connectivity options are unencumbered by the mostly metal casing of the existing iPhone. These are said to include 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity (including backwards compatibility with 802.11b and g), as well as an 850Mhz and 2100Mhz 3G (and presumably 3.5G) chipset, along with the existing 2G/2.5G chipsets. Hopefully Apple will bite the bullet and ensure that the 3G iPhone is compatible with the 7.2Mbps-class HSDPA 3.5G standard for downloads and the 1.9Mbps-class HSUPA standard for uploads, making the 3G iPhone an HSPA device – high-speed packet access, for both uploads and downloads. What else should the 3G iPhone come with as standard, if Steve Jobs is going to do the right thing by his customers? Please read onto page 2. |
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