Friday, July 25, 2008

3G Apple iPhone Coming This June or Not.

By wendy Matters

This is probably the most widely leaked secret in the IT community - there will be an Apple iPhone 3G released this June. We've had confirmations from the hardware specifications released by VodaPhone for Italy.

So what does this 3G mean and why wasn't the Apple iPhone a 3G in the first place?

3rd Generation is the term represented by 3G it can use one of two competing cellular phone data protocols. This allows for unbelievable download speeds that are about half what a DSL line gives for downloads, and very nearly equal for uploads. Only sheer speculation have covered whether or not Apple iPhone 3G will pick up HADPA, 3.5 generation protocol.

So where does all this speculation come from. Well, it is based on a lot of European information, HSDPA is the dominant standard there. VodaPhone and StarOn use HSDPA networks. Since April however, press releases announced a 3G Apple iPhone on the Internet. Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal stated, "A 3G Apple iPhone is guaranteed to happen in the next three months" in a round robin press conference that occured back in April.

What you want to know about the Apple iPhone 3G is this: Though Apple industrial designs are closely kept secrets; it is known that this 3G configuration will be much slimmer (about 3 mm), and have a more rapid data access of course.

So where's Apple's over-hyped secrecy? There was a signing of non-disclosure agreements during the launching of the iPhone last year, before journalist could see the hardware. So one can only imagine if Mossberg spoke of its 3G connectivity, what other cool features does Apple have in store that he is unable to speak off?

Suppositions on that has ranged from the 3G Apple iPhone having built in GPS capabilities, to graphic modifications and even new software from the Software Development Kit released last February. (However it is a fact that Apple has publicly released announcements about integrating with Microsoft Exchange-driven "push" email, Motion's Blackberry has, it is the major competitive advantage in Research.)

This summer is the marked time span for the release of an 8MB and 16MB iPhone well so it have been announced - some hardware experts, mention of the success of the MacBook Air will be made, that this may be a red herring, and the 3G Apple iPhone may have a higher amount of Flash RAM.

Of all things that are going to change on thing is sure to remain untouched and that is the battery life, given the fact that it is thinner. May be of some let down for the Apple iPhone devotees; the 3G Apple iPhone is thinner and has a more powerful radio, this will inevitably prevent space for greater battery capacity and may even prove to be shorter if the radio is feature that is frequently used.

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