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Fuzzy Logic Vodafone employee ‘leaks’ 3G iPhone thoughts
Fuzzy Logic Vodafone employee ‘leaks’ 3G iPhone thoughts | Vodafone employee ‘leaks’ 3G iPhone thoughts |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 09 June 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 UPDATE: The iPhone 3G has launched! Full details here. Original story follows: Of course there’s no way of verifying this information until tomorrow, when Steve Jobs finally launches the 3G iPhone, but it makes for interesting pre-launch information anyway, and it will be fun to see just how accurate it was, or wasn’t. Here’s what iPhoneAtlas’ source divulged: - The back is gloss black. - The 4 models we have have a black skin wrapped around the back and glued into place. This is how they came from Apple. - All are running v2.0 of the firmware. - The bootloader hardware exploit is now fixed. - The phone is running V 04.41.01 modem software. - The phone is locked down like no phone has ever been. At this stage, you can’t jailbreak it and you can’t hardware unlock it. - There is an added icon for contacts. This allows you to go straight to your contacts without having to hit the Phone icon first. - The GPS works very well. It will attempt to obtain your position via WiFi first, cell tower second, then satellite third. The accuracy appears to be within 3 meters. - We were getting a data transfer of 140kbps on average. It droped down to 70 kbps when we went inside. - Apart from that, the “feel” is much the same. The phone is smaller (I would say 20 percent) and it is noticable when you pick the unit up. iPhoneAtlas also say that another source told them that the iPhone firmware “lists an unbelievable number of carriers”. Please read on to page 2. |
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