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How long until 32GB iPhone 3G? Best guesses?

Most likely the first half of next year. In January, it will have been a year since the last memory boost. Considering the relatively low amount of storage (if you owned any of the iPod Classics with video), this would be a semi-long time to wait for a boost. Of course this depends on a 32GB flash module being developed that fits in the hole available in the iPhone.

I also have no clue what the poster who mentioned iPod sales was talking about. The click-wheel iPod will probably become history by 2010, with all iPods (except the Shuffle) adding touch screens. The iPod Touch may or may not have a version with a HDD, but this is the future so Apple can make a killing on the App Store.
 
adamerr said:
and yet. here i am fine with the 16GB....
i doubt anyone can listen to 32GB of music...... let alone 16GB..

but thats just my opinion.
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the ipod classic has a Hard drive space of a computer. 160GB
 
Well a few months after the iphone launched in 2007, they dropped the 4GB model. so we may see the same thing happen to the 8Gb and the addation of the 32GB
 
Nope

Juo100 said:
If Apple where being logical Id guess sometime before Christmas to cash in on the sales. Apple being Apple probably January. As the iPod touch seems 1 step ahead presumably we would be seeing a 64gb iPod touch as well.
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I have high doubts about that since you can't exactly buy an iPhone as a gift too easily. You need a social security number, and you need to sign up for the plan you want then and there. If I were to get one for my girlfriend, I'd spoil the surprise, and even then, she may be very unhappy with the gift (Hey babe, here's a $200 phone, enjoy the $2,400 you'll spend on AT&T bills over two years!).

Yeah, while I love my 2G iPhone (and will love my 3G one once I get out to buy one), I'm going to pass on expecting an update for Christmas.

Apple sells iPods during the holidays. Though they may have sold iPhones last Christmas, remember - you could take it home, in box, and wrap it for someone to activate if they choose to.
 
greenmymac said:
I say two months after the release of iPhone 3G that wat apple can get rid of the 199 and keep the 299 16GB and have the 399 32GB
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There's absolutely no way this will happen. Steve Jobs made a HUGE deal about the $199 being so much more affordable. Then after a couple of months they're going to ditch that?

The most likely scenarios are $399 32GB iPhone or discontinuing 8GB, dropping 16GB price, and making 32GB $299. They eventually have to do this because that much extra flash does NOT cost $100. I think the difference between 8 and 16 was just $20. Maybe they could do $199, $249, $299?
 
Eh, I think the late November dates may be correct. I suspect they will want to get those Christmas sales up and a 32-gig would be perfect for that

I wouldn't be shocked though if it wasn't released before then
 
I think it will be summer of 2009. The reason why I say that is because the iPhone uses a single flash memory chip as the iPod Touch uses two flash memory chips. Right now the single 32GB flash chip is very very expensive. Apple wants to keep the iPhone prices within reason. Unless they start making smaller memory chips, it will be several months before we see a 32GB. It's more likely we see diffrent colors before a 32GB iPhone.
 
This millennium or earlier.

Last year (if I'm not mistaken) the 16GB iPhone was released mid-February, so maybe around that time?

Or Apple may realize that they aren't going to release a new iPhone 3G at WWDC so they might wait until then.

Or never. Never's always a possibility.
 
trefaie said:
i dont think it will be as soon as the above posts think. Apple just purchased 50 million 8gb chips.....i doubt they will make 32gb in the next 6months
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...and what is 8 x 4 my friend? 32, that's right, just because they bought 8GB chips doesn't mean they're sticking to 8GB or 16GB phones. ;)
 
patd9000 said:
What's everyone's best guess, at how long we will wait before we see the 32GB iPhone 3G?
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Maybe in june when Jobs comes back from medical leave. There has to be a reason he chose june to come back to work.
 
TSX said:
Maybe in june when Jobs comes back from medical leave. There has to be a reason he chose june to come back to work.
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I highly doubt Steve Jobs is planning his recovery around the release of a 32GB iPhone. I think the best guess for that timeframe is that it will take that long for him to recover. It's not like he's trying to get over a cold.
 
TSX said:
Maybe in june when Jobs comes back from medical leave. There has to be a reason he chose june to come back to work.
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It means that he hasn't got the pressure about doing WWDC. He's still on medical leave then. He can shorten it, but if he had to lengthen it, it wouldn't affect WWDC build up so much perhaps.

Heck, he might need that long.
 
TSX said:
There has to be a reason he chose june to come back to work.
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Let's see....The guy has pancreatic cancer and a nutritional problem that prevents him from even maintaining his weight and you think he arranges his schedule around when a 32 gig iPhone will come out. Unbelievable.:rolleyes:
 
RandomAlec said:
...and what is 8 x 4 my friend? 32, that's right, just because they bought 8GB chips doesn't mean they're sticking to 8GB or 16GB phones. ;)
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And how many "memory card slots?" does the iPhone 3G have? One! The iPod Tocuh has 32GB because it has two of them. 16 x 2=32 You should do your research before you post comments like that.
 
I'm going to say WWDC or shortly after. 32 GB NAND chips should be readily available by then.

I'm speculating in this thread because it's not a new one, someone revived it. Therefor I'm not a hypocrite, for attacking people who make new threads on this subject. (Just saying, before someone jumps me):)

Don
 
Dmac77 said:
I'm going to say WWDC or shortly after.
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I agree. As TSX or whatever his name is up there^^^ said before and a couple flamed the sh*t out of him, the new letter did say...

"I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June."

and

"I look forward to seeing all of you this summer.

Steve"

I mean, give the guy a break!

Steve may have given us an estimated time when he could return and make an appearance and from what he said that would leave me to believe WWDC by chance. Doesn't necessarily sound Over-The-Top or anything.
 
vinay427 said:
And how many "memory card slots?" does the iPhone 3G have? One! The iPod Tocuh has 32GB because it has two of them. 16 x 2=32 You should do your research before you post comments like that.
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I was just trying to make the point that the 32GB is definitely a possibility.

I don't have time to look into that type of stuff, I just want a 32GB iPhone already.
 
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