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Loading ...Evidence for a 3G iPhone is mounting at an alarming rate. First there is the next iPhone firmware which won’t be released until the WWDC, which supports the idea that there is likely to be a new version of the iPhone hardware released to coincide with the new firmware.
Then there is the reports of 10 million new 3G handsets being ordered for sale this year alone, a contract won by Hon Hai in Taiwan. Then Bank of America, a company whose predictions regarding the iPhone have all come true so far, predicted a Q2 release of the 3G iPhone.
Add to all of that the fact that Apple won the right to use the trademarked “iPhone” name in Japan, a land where there are no EDGE networks, only tons and tons of 3rd and 4th generation networks and the 3G iPhone is shaping up to be an almost guaranteed product of the summer of 2008. Predictions for an actual 3G iPhone release range from Early May in Spain to sometime in the second quarter which ends in September, so that’s a pretty broad range, but me, myself, and I are banking on the WWDC in June.
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You’re banking on disappointment, bro if you expect an announcement in early June.
I pick end of August for the 3G iPhone announcement.
That’s almost 14 months since the gen 1 iPhone debuted, and it’s the perfect time to announce new products for the holiday shopping season.
It is pretty late in the game to announce a product Apple expects to sell 10MM of though.
Unless of course it’s a really, really KILLER product that will be the must have holiday shopping item??
(3G iPhone, 16-32GB, $299 - $399, with full corporate use capabilities via App Store??)
We are all crossing our fingers, but Apple is always full of suprises
Will the firmware on older models be able to be updated via software ? Or do we all need to buy another one and upgrade ? Also when or will they activate the GPS feature in the phone ?
Yes, no, and its already useable in the latest firmware, although its not a true GPS chipset, it just uses WiFi networks, possibly cellular networks, and then triangulates based on ping times, so in busy cities in can be as accurate as a few feet, but in one of the larger cities here in indiana i could barely get it to zoom in on the general street i was on let alone give a reasonably accurate depiction of where i was on that street