Phone, iPod, Internt, and more

The iPhone3G was announced yesterday at WWDC where they slashed the prices. The new price for the 8gb is $199 and the 16gb is 299. The new iPhone will come equipped with support for the faster 3G Network. The new iPhone will start to ship on July 11th.

iPhone New features:

3G Speed – surf the web and download email over 3G cellular networks.

Maps with GPS – Find your location, get directions, and track progress along your route.

App Store – Get ready to browse and download innovative applications for the iPhone.

Microsoft Exchange – Get Push email, calendar, and contacts with microsoft exchange ActivSync.

A faster iPhone
When the new iPhone arrives, it will offer support for 3G networking, which Apple says will be twice as fast as the first-generation phone. The original iPhone shipped with support for Wi-Fi and AT&T’s EDGE network. While more ubiquitous at the time than the faster 3G, the EDGE cellular data standard tended to perform slowly.

That fact was certainly demonstrated during Monday’s keynote. In an on-stage demo, Jobs was able to download an e-mail attachment in five seconds while the same download took 18 seconds on the EDGE network. A web page loaded in 21 seconds on 3G versus 59 seconds on EDGE.

The iPhone 3G offers quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA for voice and data connectivity. It will continue to support Wi-Fi and EDGE in addition to 3G.

That last point is critical to users concerned about battery life. iPhone 3G owners will be able to switch between 3G and 2G in case they wish to save battery life.

However, Jobs boasted that the revamped iPhone improves battery life. 2G talk time has jumped to 10 hours from 8 hours; for 3G talk time, the phone will have a battery life of 5 hours. The 3G iPhone features 300 hours standby time.

A new look
The iPhone 3G is thinner at the edges than the original model, though at 4.5-by-2.4-by-0.48 inches, it’s slightly deeper than the current iPhone’s 4.5-by-2.4.-by-0.46-inch dimensions. The iPhone 3G is a tenth-of-an-ounce lighter at 4.7 ounces.

More important, the new iPhone features a flush headphone jack instead of the recessed headphone jack that the original sports. That saves users the hassle of having to buy an adapter to use with their third-party headphones.

The 16GB model comes in white or black. The 8GB iPhone 3G is available in black only.

Jobs said Monday that Apple has sold 6 million iPhones since the June 2007 launch. It’s “one of the most amazing products I’ve ever had the privilege to be associated with,” he said at the conclusion of Monday’s keynote.

source – macworld.com