Sunday, July 27, 2008

Will There Be A 3G Apple iPhone This June?

By wendy Matters

Can it be concluded that there will be a release of an Apple iPhone 3G in June? This is one of the most widely spread secret in the world of IT. The hardware specifications for VodaPhone in italy confirmed it.

What is 3g and why wasn't the Apple iPhone a 3G in the initial stage?

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.

However, that speculation is based on a lot of information that's coming from Europe, where HSDPA is the dominant standard. Both VodaPhone and StarOn use HSDPA networks, and press releases announcing a 3G Apple iPhone have been around on the Internet since April. Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal stated, in a round robin press conference that "A 3G Apple iPhone is guaranteed to happen in the next three months" back in April.

What one should be concerned about is this: The industrial design secrets are kept close to Apple; however we do know that this design will be slimmer, and of course,the Apple iPhone 3G will make data access much quicker.

Where is Apple's flaunted secrecy? At the iPhone launching last year, before the journalist could see the hardware, they all had to sign non-disclosure agreements . So that leaves one to think that if Mossberg can talk about 3G connectivity on the Apple iPhone, what new tricks does Apple have that these journalist have not yet conveyed?

There is a range of speculation from the 3G Apple iPhone having built in GPS capabilities, to new software, this software stemming from the Software Development Kit, this being released last February. Also there are some speculations about graphic acceleration. (Apple on the other hand has publicly released announcements about integrating with Microsoft Exchange-driven "push" email, the major competitive advantage that Research In Motion's Blackberry has.)

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.

The battery life is the one thing that is sure to remain unchanged. Though it is a let down for Apple iPhone fanatics we cannot expect much of a change; the facts are obvious, the 3G Apple iPhone is thinner and has a more powerful radio. This will prevent an expansion of the battery capacity the size that is, and its powerful radio will consume even more juice.

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