3G iPhone to come June 9 at WWDC?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 27 April 2008 11:29

Your IT - Mobility

Is June 9 “D-Day for 3G” as analysts are suggesting, with the WWDC conference not only to highlight developer news, but “an impressive wave of new products” – and the fabled 3G iPhone?

The next-gen iPhone rumours get ever hotter, with even more pressure placed upon the publicly unflappable Steve Jobs to deliver Apple’s greatest and most bountiful harvest of new products yet.

It comes as a wave of new 3G iPhone rumours come to prominence - including the discovery that the black casing paraded on the Internet as coming from the 3G iPhone - is not what it seems.

But back to the June 9 launch date rumour. PC World magazine has quoted Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee, suggesting that the 3G iPhone will be but the "first of an impressive wave of new products" – from wireless speakers, to a new TV media playing device, to new Mac laptops and even new iPods.

WWDC, the “WorldWide Developers Conference” held this year on June 9 to 13 in San Francisco, is a hotly anticipated event each year, given Apple another highly publicised platform upon which to launch anything they please, with the 3G iPhone the hottest tip and the most expected item, bar none.

Steve Jobs, keynoter par excellence, is expected to take centre stage and announce that the JesusPhone will indeed have a second coming, in glorious 3G, and with a host of other surprises that are sure to stun – and please – us all.

Of course, fuelling the rumours are the now well known shortage of 8GB iPhone models, having sold out in the UK, with 8GB now seen as simply being too small – a 32GB 3G iPhone is expected to appear.

PC World quotes Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research as saying the 3G iPhone will have a “minor casing change” – and could even see a price drop down to anywhere between US $299 and $349, compared with the current US $399 for the 8GB 2G iPhone model.

Apple does want to sell those magical 10 million iPhones, and a 3G model is certainly one way to help achieve that total.

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