Meet New iPhone 3G, At Last!

Yes, we got GPS, 3G, and lower prices, but some highly anticipated iPhone rumors, such as additional iPhone models or videoconferencing, didn’t get the realization.

Meet New iPhone 3G, At Last! The $199 price tag for the 8GB version and $299 for the 16GB model get people excited. Considering the iPhone 3G features, the price is reasonable and it will get its lines after July 11, when it gets on sale.

AT&T announced that the data plan fee of $30 per month is required for the iPhone 3G, that is $10 more than the EDGE-only plan. And even if you’re a current subscriber, you’ll need to resign a 2-year contract with AT&T.

The iPhone 3G is only about 0.02 inches thicker than the Edge-only model, and the new model is nearly 0.1 ounce lighter than the old model.

You’ll be able to browse and get access to data while on a voice call, even not in Wi-Fi range. The new 3G iPhone will have two times quicker connection over HSDPA network than over the old EDGE. It’s really fast enough for video and music, but yet there’s no word on the opportunity to download videos, songs or podcasts from iTunes. A future firmware upgrade can make it possible.

The battery life is promised to be 5 hours of talk time, 7 hours of video and 24 hours of music. But as a rule it is often less, we’ll see.

With announced GPS, live tracking of your position looks great on the iPhone. Additionally, Loopt has announced a GPS social-networking app to indicate your nearest friends. Finally, the iPhone switches GPS off automatically when not in use.

Meet New iPhone 3G, At Last! Unfortunately, the rumors on videoconferencing didn’t come true: no front cam for video iChat. Video syncing with iTunes and wireless music wasn’t confirmed as well. And no 32GB model or higher, no original EDGE-only iPhones, and only in black and white flavors.

Considering service side, the upcoming MobileMe will now get over-the-air syncing of Address Book contacts, e-mail and photos, events from iCal, and now Outlook Windows users are on the list. MobileMe is still $99 per year, not bad considering the doubled 20GB of online storage compared to the old .Mac.

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New Touch Diamond Compete With 3G iPhone

High Tech Computer introduced the HTC Touch Diamond, a smartphone with the support of Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. The main advantage of it is a touch screen designed for one-handed use.

New Touch Diamond Compete With 3G iPhoneThe new phone device is the next generation of HTC’s Touch smartphone, which boasts over 3 million units sold in 10 months since its debut. The Touch Diamond features advanced third generation mobile technology 3G, and so becomes the main rival to Apple’s future release of 3G.

Last year HTC had its first Touch handset a month before the iPhone’s debut. The story repeats. The Touch Diamond will be retailing in Europe from June, followed by Middle East and Asia. North and South America will be hit in the second half of the year. And within the next few months we expect the launch of 3G Apple iPhone.

The Touch Diamond works on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) networks with data rates up to 7.2Mb/second and the use of High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) due to a Qualcomm chipset.

Peter Chou, HTC CEO, is so excited about the future release that he predicts an even bigger selling results than the original Touch. He calls it “the biggest product of my life”. Their intensions to compete with iPhone are serious. HTC focuses on advancing touch screen technology on the 2.8-inch display and 640 pixel by 480 pixel. TouchFlo software will give a 3D effect to screen images. Users can use touch screen to access photos, messages, -e-mails or music and more.

HTC also improved the Web browser, which is based on an engine from Opera Software, designed specifically for HTC. The browser’s dimensions fit the screen, so users can zoom and pan sites with one hand. If you turn the device someway, the view automatically rotates as well.

The HTC’s Touch Diamond has customized apps for YouTube videos watching and Google Maps using. The device has a GPS receiver as well. Video-calling is possible with the 3.2-megapixel auto-focus cam. Although screen size is big enough, Touch Diamond is quite small, just 102 mm by 51mm by 11.33 mm.

The handset also features Bluetooth and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g for wireless data transfer and Internet access. The battery is 4 hours long.

But the HTC’s Touch Diamond has only 4Gb of flash memory, while the iPhone has 8Gb or 16Gb.

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All You Need to Know About Apple iPhone: Gadget Specs

I would like to supply you with some major technical details of the iPhone. I would touch upon the size, screen, audio specs, requirements etc. All the data is taken from the official web-page, so you can trust them for sure.

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Size and weight

In the box

Capacity

Display

Operating system

GSM

Wireless data

Camera

Audio

Video

Headphones

Mac system requirements

Windows system requirements

Environmental requirements

Input and output

Power and battery

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Apple iPhone Review: iPhone vs. LG Voyager

I was wondering what device comes closest to iPhone in popularity and functionality. In order to find this out I run a Google search and came up with the device that seems to be the biggest competitor of the iPhone. I myself will definitely stick with my iPhone, but, to tell you the truth, the audience supports the other way of thinking.

So, let me introduce to you the most probable iPhone competitor – LG Voyager. When I was researching into the nature of iPhone fakes I never thought that one of those phones can ACTUALLY substitute the iPhone. But I got a comment on the post saying that Voyager was released before the iPhone (so it cannot naturally be its clone), and the functionality of the device is even higher that than of the iPhone. At first I didn’t believe a word from that comment, but gradually I got interested and decided to make a sort of comparison. In my research I relied on the opinions of the audience.

iPhone vs. LG Voyager

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3G iPhone Due Out Soon - O2 and T-Mobile Cut Prices

With the forthcoming release of 3G iPhone the overwhelming majority of mobile operators with the contracts to sell iPhone are exposed to crucial losses on the stock which is likely to remain unsold. That;s why they have to find solutions out of such an unpleasant situation. What are these solutions?

For instance, the UK operator O2 and the German T-Mobile miscalculated the number of iPhones that could be sold in Europe and at the moment their warehouses are filled with the gadgets that in a matter of months will cost no more than $200.

Even Apple experts confirm that the losses of these companies will be significant.

Nevertheless the companies make their best to recoup the forthcoming losses and at the same time clear the shelves for the new iPhone.

Recently O2 has announced price cut on the iPhone. The company reduced more than a third of its initial price – from 269 pounds to 169 pounds. And a few weeks ago T-Mobile set even more generous sales – from 399 euro to 99 euro.

The French operator Orange will also have to cut the prices. The French sales of the gadget were predicted to be between 500 000 and 600 000, but the company only managed to sell about 330 000 iPhones.

The sale tempos have significantly fallen down and the European retailers find it difficult to clear their stock from the current version of IPhone.

As for the new device which is due out in the middle of June it is said to be completely different to the current version in appearance. They don’t exclude the possibility that the new device will have a regular qwerty keyboard instead of the fan-favorite touch-screen.

Another new tendency that 3G iPhone is likely to bring in is the refusal of the favoring policy towards a single operator in the given territory.

In fact the end goal of Apple is to create the best device ever and then to bring it to as many clients as possible.

Do you think that Apple will manage to do it eventually?

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