New Iphone is released!

[BKLYNH2]

Here's the news:
Apple Announces iPhone 3G
posted by longofest on Monday June 09, 2008 02:49 PM


After months of anticipation, the heavily rumored 3G iPhone was announced today during Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference Keynote.

Features
- 3G-capable. 2.8 times faster than EDGE.
- GPS built-in
- Thinner
- Better battery life - 300 hours of standby, 2G talk-time 10 hours (as opposed to 5), 5 hours of 3G talk-time (competition is 3 hour 3G talk time), 5 to 6 hours of high-speed browsing, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio.
- flush headphone jack

Pricing and Availability
The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries for $199 for 8 GB and $299 for 16 GB. The 16 GB model also comes in white.

It will be available in many countries, even in Canada

Memory still topping out at 16GB, so I think I'll wait on upgrading for now.

[BKLYNH2]

Oh yeah the prices : 8gb 199$ 16gb 299$

[KenP]

Kinda sucks for those that bought the old out of date phones.

[3Hummer]

Originally Posted by KenP

Kinda sucks for those that bought the old out of date phones.

not really got it the week it came out so i got a great use outta mine, and when this breaks ill buy a new one, the 2.0 update for the old one is coming out the same date so then the only difference is the new one runs on 3g instead of edge other than that a small size difference its the same phone. So if you have the older one it doesnt matter whatsoever, unless the extra 5 seconds itll take to load a web page annoys you.

[BKLYNH2]

[frenzy1]

What's an iphone ????

[KenP]

Originally Posted by 3Hummer

unless the extra 5 seconds itll take to load a web page annoys you.

Yeah, that big price savings wouldn't bother me at all.

[trashguy]

i just hope they hope they expand the 3g coverage pretty quickly, before the iphone i had a blackjack and 3g only worked in manhattan.

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by KenP

Yeah, that big price savings wouldn't bother me at all.

How the ones who owned EDGE IPhones felt when the better cheaper IPhones came out is comparable pain similar to the Penguins fans when they were so sure they were gonna win the Stanley.

[DennisAJC]

Originally Posted by BKLYNH2

Memory still topping out at 16GB, so I think I'll wait on upgrading for now.

How much penguin porn do you need to store? That's plenty!

[CO Hummer]

I'll be buying it soon. But I'm gonna wait a couple of months after the first release to let them get the bugs out. I wouldn't wait if I didn't already have one. But 50% of the time I surf by WIFI and 3G isn't gonna speed that up.

I had hoped for more stuff that just GPS and 3G. But that itself is enough to warrant another $299 for a new phone.

Now that the SDK is out, I'm waiting for someone to come up with copy/paste functionality. That is the #1 thing on my list besides 3G.

[DRTYFN]

Announced =/= Released

I'm with CO - I'm going to wait a month or two so they can work out the bugs. The it'll be a Friends of iPhone free-for-all.

[CO Hummer]

Originally Posted by DRTYFN

The it'll be a Friends of iPhone free-for-all.

Can't wait!

[DennisAJC]

Meh. They have the bugs out already. Lessons from the 1st gen IPhone.


July 11th it shall be mine and that's that.

[BKLYNH2]

Originally Posted by DRTYFN

Announced =/= Released

Someone's being a bit anal, aren't they?

[BKLYNH2]

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

I'll be buying it soon. But I'm gonna wait a couple of months after the first release to let them get the bugs out. I wouldn't wait if I didn't already have one. But 50% of the time I surf by WIFI and 3G isn't gonna speed that up.

I had hoped for more stuff that just GPS and 3G. But that itself is enough to warrant another $299 for a new phone.

Now that the SDK is out, I'm waiting for someone to come up with copy/paste functionality. That is the #1 thing on my list besides 3G.

Bugs what bugs? The phone you have now will have the same software as the 3G. I got mine on the first day and there's not a thing wrong with it. Also the FCC requires them to test the sh!t out of them before they get a license anyway. The idea of getting the bugs out is ridiculous.

Wait because there has to be a better one coming out soon. A lot of people are not satisfied. This phone is to increase the market share, but soon they will actually make something that's a substantial improvement.

[CO Hummer]

Originally Posted by BKLYNH2

Bugs what bugs? The phone you have now will have the same software as the 3G. I got mine on the first day and there's not a thing wrong with it. Also the FCC requires them to test the sh!t out of them before they get a license anyway. The idea of getting the bugs out is ridiculous.

Wait because there has to be a better one coming out soon. A lot of people are not satisfied. This phone is to increase the market share, but soon they will actually make something that's a substantial improvement.

Hahaha! This might just be the first documented case of iPhone enragement!

Bull. There were bugs. That's mostly what the first two updates fixed. One example was the sudden crashing of safari when surfing.

[BKLYNH2]

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

Hahaha! This might just be the first documented case of iPhone enragement!

Bull. There were bugs. That's mostly what the first two updates fixed. One example was the sudden crashing of safari when surfing.

Never happened to me. You probably got one of those special ones.

I did have one strange problem, strange because of the fix. After having the headphones in on one occasion I could not get the phone to work in standard phone mode, i.e hold to ear hear voice in spkr. and talk. It onl worked with headphones or in spkr phone mode. I went to the mac store told them what was happening and the guy took a set of headphones and plugged them in and out 5 times. Everything worked again, I looked at the guy and said "of course" and left.

Oh by the way that was a software problem you mentioned. Your going to get those wether you wait or not.

[BKLYNH2]

Originally Posted by DennisAJC

How much penguin porn do you need to store? That's plenty!

Well going through 4 rounds of the playoffs all the way to game 6 of the stanley cup takes up a lot of memory. ...

Oh I forgot you wouldn't know what that's like!

I can download the games off of itunes already if I want and watch them over and over.

[06-H3]

Originally Posted by BKLYNH2

I can download the games off of itunes already if I want and watch them over and over.

I would recommend games 4 & 6 based on the results and game 5 as a sort of 2 for 1 deal.