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2nd Generation iPhone coming July 2008??

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pederg

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El Periodico said:
The long-awaited third-generation iPhone will finally arrive in the summer for the whole world, and Telefonica will bring it exclusively in Spain from July. The company president, Cesar Alierta, will make the announcement during the World Congress Mobile, the new name of the 3GSM fair (which begins next February 11 in Barcelona), according to confirmed industry sources.
The operator also announced that it will bring the iPhone to Italy, where it owns 10% of Telecom Italia. The new mobile phone will also launch simultaneously in the United States, where AT&T is starting to provide coverage and will be compatible with UMTS networks Edge (advanced version of GPRS), which the current version uses.
The launch of the iPhone is expected in Spain as a great event, which will include a visit from Steve Jobs to Madrid, the first to be undertaken by the founder of Apple to Spain. Telefonica wants to give more visibility to the inauguration of a shop in the former corporate headquarters of the company in Madrid's Gran Vía.
The Spanish iPhone - will be exclusive but will not have marked the logo of Telefonica - integrated into its menu direct access to emotion, Telefonica's mobile portal. In February, Apple will release a software development kit, and Telefonica could create applications for users to download on the mobile phone.
Apple has sold four million phones at it's mark in 200 days campaign, which included the first units of Britain, Germany and France.
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I assume that when they say third-gen they mean 2nd generation but w/ 3G.. Further evidence of the 3G iPhone is that Swisscom said they wouldn't release an iPhone w/ Edge but there are now rumors of them announcing it w/in a few days..

Source:
http://www.iphonegold.org/iphone-in-spain-italy-and-switzerland-article-117.html
 
I think its unlikely the President of Telefonica would be allowed to share this information publicly. Stevie would go down there personally to assault him if he did. AT&T's proclamation of a 3G iphone in 2008 are probably as specific as Apple would allow any of their partners to get.

The article says the announcement will be made during the the 3GSM fair (no clue what this is), which begins Feb 11. Since we're way past that date.......did he make the announcement?
 
That conference has come and gone
See https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/438408/ for the best guess. July is a bit late afaik. It also gets the SDK date wrong. The rest even I could have made up.
The OP is right on one thing though - Areas that are getting iPhones, but only have 3G networks are a key indicator of when a 3G iPhone is coming out.
Spain, Japan are the two ones at the moment I know of.
 
t0mat0 said:
Spain, Japan are the two ones at the moment I know of.
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Patiently awaiting the iPhone here in Japan.

I want to see what the plans cost. I am hearing rumors that they may be a bit expensive. If too expensive, I will forgo the iPhone and just upgrade my current cell phone and probably get a 32GB Touch.
 
sushi said:
Patiently awaiting the iPhone here in Japan.

I want to see what the plans cost. I am hearing rumors that they may be a bit expensive. If too expensive, I will forgo the iPhone and just upgrade my current cell phone and probably get a 32GB Touch.
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But a 3G iPhone is a lot more versatile if the 3G connection works when jailbroken :) The cost of the 3G chip isn't great, and Apple will benefit from cost reductions from using a System on a Chip SoC or similar chip, so any cost of the 3G parts will be negated. The crux comes down to how to work out how AT&T, 02 Telefonica etc and Apple sell a 3G phone and plan that could download and upload a *lot* of data on it's network. It's all you can eat (/200Mb) works on EDGE, but might not fair so well on 3G.
 
If it involves a 3G phone, we'd know about it because we'd have seen the FCC application already. And we haven't. Until we do, the 3G iPhone is a little ways off.
 
rayward said:
If it involves a 3G phone, we'd know about it because we'd have seen the FCC application already. And we haven't. Until we do, the 3G iPhone is a little ways off.
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Do you need FCC approval for release in Spain and Japan?
 
carfac said:
Do you need FCC approval for release in Spain and Japan?
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Good point! Apple could announce a 3G phone someday and immediately start selling it elsewhere? Then start in the USA once the approval goes through. That would allow Apple to not have a gap between announcement and some sales.
 
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I doubt the rest of the world would get the iPhone before us. With its recent release in other parts of the world and AT&T and apple in bed together I doubt we would be left out of the mix
 
rayward said:
If it involves a 3G phone, we'd know about it because we'd have seen the FCC application already. And we haven't. Until we do, the 3G iPhone is a little ways off.
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There was no FCC notice before the iPhone 1 launch. You can also get pre-approved chips for this kind of thing.

However, I still think this is wishful thinking from Telefonica. I still predict November for a Euro launch of a hardware revision that includes 3G. I'd like to be wrong though.
 
It seems that every day a news source or blog source comes out with a new date for the new version of the iPhone

I believed the first few but now it just seems silly to believe one unless it comes from Jobs mouth
 
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