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Fuzzy Logic Will the iPhone 3GS come to 3 Mobile?
Fuzzy Logic Will the iPhone 3GS come to 3 Mobile? | Will the iPhone 3GS come to 3 Mobile? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 09 June 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 2 iPhone OS 3.0 and the 3G S hardware now offers: 30fps 640x480 video recording (with 3 megapixel auto-focus camera and touch focus on screen), SMS forwarding, MMS messaging, cut/copy and paste, upload to YouTube, video and audio streaming, the best mobile browsing experience, multitouch…Featured Whitepaper
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A lot of these things match any deficiencies against, for example, Symbian - while offering many more apps, a much smoother OS and more. Indeed, the Nokia N97 really needs to shine to compete against the new benchmark the iPhone 3.0 OS and 3G S phone have set. While the existing iPhone 3G will be freely upgradeable to the new iPhone OS 3.0, those with iPhone 3G models won’t get video recording, voice recording, the compass, better battery life, the option of 32GB storage, and a processor that supposed to make performance “twice as fast” as the iPhone 3G. That’s because Apple is creating some semi-artificial boundaries to clearly delineate between iPhone models. Voice command and video recording shouldn’t require the power of an iPhone 3G S, and should be perfectly workable on the existing iPhone 3G, but aren’t being made available as part of the free iPhone OS 3.0 update – you need to buy a new 3G S to get the new goodies. That’s Apple’s standard modus operandi, and if it ain’t broke, and it ain’t sendin’ the company broke, but instead delivering fantastic profits while sustaining the most advanced handheld computing platform available at the moment – why fix it? There’s also the inevitable iPod Touch 3.0 hardware to come, itself able to make calls through Skype and other VoIP software when connected to Wi-Fi, and probably set to come with a 64GB option. In the future we’ll also see an Apple iPhone netbook, or MacBook. Apple cleverly “upgraded” the 13.3-inch silver Unibody MacBook to a MacBook Pro, clearing the way for a new “MacBook” that could be a Mac convertible tablet netbook, or a slate/screen only device. Even if a wireless keyboard could be clipped (magnetically or otherwise) to the screen, yet still used completely separately, with an onscreen multi-touch typeable keyboard as desired. It’s easy to expect that Apple’s design would revolutionise the “MacBook” line with a winning, lightweight, long battery life, brilliant user interface on a “MacBook netbook” that redefines the genre. Until then, which is probably either at the end of this year, or sometime in 2010, the iPhone 3G S beckons, with Vodafone probably set to offer its “unlimited voice and 2GB data plan” in competition with everyone else. This will make life interesting for Optus, which already has several network resellers adding customers to the Optus network, and it could well make some Telstra customers, primarily in cities, wonder if an “unlimited” price point and better coverage than Optus is better than no cap on prices but the best coverage, at least for as long as Vodafone’s “unlimited” offer is available. |
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