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The One and ONLY best guess release of a 3G iPHONE thread
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I think the iphone is perfect the way it is. Making it a bit smaller might make the screen too small...
I originally thought the end of June... now with the 16GB release... I'm thinking Thanksgiving.
I would be very surprised if it costs any more for 3G data than it does now for the EDGE data.
Is it too much to ask to get a frikkin' iPhone with a frikkin' laser beam attached to its head?!!!!
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Its so obvious its going to he over a year till 3g when the earlynadaopterS contracts run out.
Its not just coincidence that the uk contracts were 18 months and wouldnend when the yanks ended..
Its so obvious its going to he over a year till 3g when the earlynadaopterS contracts run out.
Its not just coincidence that the uk contracts were 18 months and wouldnend when the yanks ended..
6 months after it is submitted to the FCC for approval. Simple as that
case closed. Why do people keep creating these threads. There will be no
surprise 3G iPhone.
See this is the kind of self absorbed poster we love. Good information with a hint of disdain.
So I guess SKUBISH says wait for the FCC report and then 6 months.
Thanks!
Alright... lets see
date is pretty ok guess I think, but for the lack of GPS isn't something I'd dislike; more a multipoint bluetooth chip; this way I can use a handsfree set and a external GPS antenna
I agree on the "stop the useless nobody-knows-more-than-me-but-lets-post-a-new-thread-anyway thread making", but 6 months FCC approval is big time bullcrap. Maybe for the first iPhone this was a funny piece of marketing, but it is absolutely not true this has to be done 6 months before release, nor that it is that public, moreover its done anonymous. 2 to 3 weeks is more ok.
E.g. the whole docking station for your laptop in your iMac-patent thing/approval thing was discovered only 1/2 months ago, while first posted/put up by Apple in 2005
date is pretty ok guess I think, but for the lack of GPS isn't something I'd dislike; more a multipoint bluetooth chip; this way I can use a handsfree set and a external GPS antenna
I agree on the "stop the useless nobody-knows-more-than-me-but-lets-post-a-new-thread-anyway thread making", but 6 months FCC approval is big time bullcrap. Maybe for the first iPhone this was a funny piece of marketing, but it is absolutely not true this has to be done 6 months before release, nor that it is that public, moreover its done anonymous. 2 to 3 weeks is more ok.
E.g. the whole docking station for your laptop in your iMac-patent thing/approval thing was discovered only 1/2 months ago, while first posted/put up by Apple in 2005
If you read the post on MacRumor's home page you will see that AT&T has confirmed a 3G iPhone in 2008. Therefore it is 9 months and 23 days or less.
Forgive me for lashing out that way, it won't happen again.
I'd like to add that I think a 3g version of the iPhone will be realeased in August. Followed by a 32gb upgrade in October and then the iPhone version 2 wth 3g, GPS, 64gb and a forum-scum-gun in Q1 2009. I honestly believe this.
It doesn't matter about the contracts considering all of us have two year contracts, not one, & you don't have to be eligible to purchase an iPhone anyway... Which is why the iPhone is not subsidized.
September, when the iPod's are updated, it'll be 3G and available in 16 and 32 GB models, with possibly an ultra high end 64 GB model. They might keep the 8 GB model for $50 less, but I doubt it. It'll also probably have a better camera, and possibly one behind the screen facing forwards, it might also have GPS.
The only reason it might be released before September is for Japan, or to pick up flagging sales in Europe. In which case a 3G model might come in June.
The only reason it might be released before September is for Japan, or to pick up flagging sales in Europe. In which case a 3G model might come in June.
It could take longer as well. I watched as a manufacturer brought a transmitter to market and at the same time was advertising a lower powered version. It was the basically the same VHF/UHF RF deck, but a different output power.
The high power unit came out first and the low power version as almost 5 months after, even though the FCC had the application months before.
When Apple submits a 3G phone it will be looked at as an entirely new device, not just an upgrade to a current design.
For me the 3G phone offers nothing, I won't see coverage in my area because I live in such a nice, not congested place.