Mobile Phones With 3G Technology Announcements

Posted on April 22, 2008
Filed Under iPhone General

Times Online announced that the UK and German iPhone discounts should clear the market for 3G iPhones. European mobile operators overestimated the necessity for current iPhones and promised to clear excess inventory right before the 3G iPhone release.

It is known that Apple ordered Asian suppliers to produce 200,000 new 3G iPhones by the end of May, than rise to 2 million (500,000 a week) - in June, and new version of the iPhone will be totally different.

Presumed that flip version would enable the larger screen, and a sliding model will have a regular qwerty touchscreen keyboard.

Whether Times Online’s information is reliable is unknown. The inclusion of an built-in keyboards among smartphones was criticized when the iPhone was introduced. Apple will soon be launching Software Development Kit (SDK) for multi-touch OS X. To change something radically could be not a smart idea.

Telecom Italia is going to launch the iPhone in Italy in the next few weeks. The new model will be based on 3G (UMTS) technology. The 3G iPhone, can be available to any provider, but obviously TIM will get advantage for at least first months.

According to MacRumors here are some points for Italian retails:

Introduction of UMTS capable 3G iPhones instead of current 2G version.
No revenue sharing, but a higher price on the market.
Support of various providers, but TIM will have the right to distribute the iPhone with advantage for some months.

3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards, tending to replace 2G standards. Cellular mobile telecommunications networks are being updated to 3G from 1999 to 2010. The introduction of 3G first took place in Japan, and there the convertion to 3G was already completed in 2006. As can be seen, the whole tech world is ready to use mobile phones with 3G technology.