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The Evidence for a 3G iPhone... June 2008
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I hate to complain, but when is this thing hitting Denmark. Many posts include plans of lunches in various countries, but never this one... i guess it'll get here some day.
I hate to complain, but when is this thing hitting Denmark. Many posts include plans of lunches in various countries, but never this one... i guess it'll get here some day.
For a swede like me I think we're in the same situation. I heard that Norway is getting the iphone soon so I guess that rest of scandinavia gets it too. No need for you to worry
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I think that the idea of keeping the Edge iPhone is pretty interesting. I think it will cause the 3G model to really have quite a price tag, but I guess that is what you pay for the latest and greatest.
I think that the idea of keeping the Edge iPhone is pretty interesting. I think it will cause the 3G model to really have quite a price tag, but I guess that is what you pay for the latest and greatest.
argghhhhh... just ordered 5 ****ing 16GB iPhones, and now 3G comes out in June!!!! that's just great...
This thing's been rumoured for months...where've you been hiding?
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i have to agree with you. The original price of $699 did not ring pretty in the ears. In fact, I think it scared me away even though I was not in a phone contract at the time.
A new phone should not be an opportunity to charge MUCH more, but rather to spur sales which have slowed.
And to make people like me very happy. 32gB and 3G. It's been a long wait.
450 is fair.
i have to agree with you. The original price of $699 did not ring pretty in the ears. In fact, I think it scared me away even though I was not in a phone contract at the time.
A new phone should not be an opportunity to charge MUCH more, but rather to spur sales which have slowed.
And to make people like me very happy. 32gB and 3G. It's been a long wait.
450 is fair.
Another thing everyone has to remember is the technology figures in to the cost. 2G tech was pretty cheap as you could throw a qaud band radio into the phone and have it work everywhere. 3G is not so simple. YOu cant just slap a multi band radio in and have it work. It has to be backward compatible, as you and I will bitch when we dont get signal in non-3G areas. I know its going to be locked to ATT here in the US but even both them and TMobile won't use the same radio spectrum.
SO I am going to stand by my post of at least $599 for a 32GB phone.
Rj
SO I am going to stand by my post of at least $599 for a 32GB phone.
Rj
Maybe they'll keep the EDGE-version in the US, doubt it though, but they will NEVER sell an EDGE-equipped iphone in europe if there's is a 3G iphone for sale. No way.
The original was $599 and $499. It outsold any other smartphone. How did that not work for them?
Agreed, it was never 700 dollars. But either way, the price didn't stop the majority of customers from buying 8GB model, right? And people still complained that they wanted more storage. So regardless of the price (unless it is 699$), Apple will sell a **** load of 3G iPhones (hopefully we'll have 16 and 32GB models).
argghhhhh... just ordered 5 ****ing 16GB iPhones, and now 3G comes out in June!!!! that's just great...
One visit to this board in the past 3 or 4 months would have told you everything about the 3G rumors... Why would anyone order 5 iPhones without checking on updates 8 months after release?
Looks like you have some eBay selling to do if you'd rather have 3G.
Yeah, but I didn't expect this to be this early... I mean, I would've been fine with an iPhone 3G launch of January or something, and upgraded then... but June is way too close for me to buy 5 16GB iPhones now... But it's too late, already paid...
Don't despair - if you hunt around ebay, you'll find you may be able to sell them for $20 to $30 more than you paid for them. I say a $100 profit isn't bad.
All the nutjobs who already do if you do a quick search. Plus he said he just ordered them, so they obviously aren't used as of now.
Wrong again.
EDGE, also known as IMT-SC, is one of ITU's 3G standards, also known as IMT-2000. The current iPhone is a 3G phone because it supports EDGE.
The new iPhone will use a different standard that's faster than the minimum for 3G, which means IMT-DS, also known as W-CDMA or UMTS (with HSDPA/HSUPA), or IMT-MC, also known as CDMA2000.
If it was just for Japan, a CDMA2000 would be possible.
However, a UMTS phone that falls back to GSM (where available, i.e. everywhere except Japan and South Korea) will work anywhere in the world (using either GSM or UMTS), not just Japan. It is much more likely that Apple will make such a phone.
I don't think the new iPhone will look any different. Apple designs things right the first time and sticks with that for awhile. Since apple designs hardware configurations to fit perfectly into the design of a device, a redesign of the device would be incredibly costly.
ummm just look at the ipod from the first generation till now... are they still the same??
I've played with an iPhone on EDGE and it was definitely useable, but even on my friends 512kbps broadband (around the speed of 3G) everything did move so much quicker. The renderer is what slows down many 3G phones.
Yea, that's good comparing the 7 year old iPod line with the 9 month iPhone.
If we see any hardware changes it'll be a 2nd camera (most 3G phones have this) or a thinner case (which I doubt at this time). The iPhone doesn't need any hardware changes. It's not looking old.
And before I forget why I logged back in - iPhones ship in 24 hours on the UK site. Bugger.
corrado7 said:
Yea, that's good comparing the 7 year old iPod line with the 9 month iPhone.
If we see any hardware changes it'll be a 2nd camera (most 3G phones have this) or a thinner case (which I doubt at this time). The iPhone doesn't need any hardware changes. It's not looking old.
And before I forget why I logged back in - iPhones ship in 24 hours on the UK site. Bugger.
Also look at the iPod Nano... 3 totally different looks in its lifetime... and I think each time they did a bump in memory they came out with a new design...
Not Really....
- Most Americans live in cities....all these cities have 3G.
- 3G chips can support EDGE.
What's the problem here?
It's a Win-Win...