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NEWS: by Stuart Miles
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, has confirmed that there is a 3G iPhone in the works, although fell short of saying when we could expect to buy one.
Making the comments at the "Mum is no longer the word" press conference at the Regent Street Apple store in London, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple said: "You can expect a 3G iPhone later next year".
The news comes as a 2G EDGE-enabled iPhone will be available in the UK on 9 November.
When asked why the current model didn't have 3G, Jobs blamed power issues saying that the 3G chipset would be too much of a drain on the unit's battery life which promises 8 hours of call time, but said that future models would have the technology.
"We are working on the next iPhone already, the one after that and the one after that", Jobs said.
Apple plans to release a 3G iPhone this year. Steve Jobs has said so. So has AT&T CEO, Randall Stephenson. It is a done deal. The questions that remain unanswered are the following:
When exactly will they be available?
What will be the price?
What will the specs be?
I've been doing a bit of research on these questions and have some guesses to share..
When:
Update: Walt Mossberg says June 5th-ish
Apple has stated that the iPhone will be in Asia in 2008. We know that EDGE won't work in Japan but 3G standard UMTS / HSDPA will. Japan is far and away Apple's largest market in Asia, the world's second largest economy and most likely part of the initial iPhone rollout there. Apple has, so far, been rolling out iPhones in six month intervals and the one year anniversary of the iPhone release is June 29th. All signs are pointing to mid 2008 - May-July-ish.
The EDGE-speed iPhone is accepted in the US because 3G is just being built out and frankly Americans don't know what they are missing. However, in Europe, the lack of 3G access is a much bigger issue. We know that the iPhone isn't meeting European sales expectations largely because of its lack of 3G data access (also because people are bringing them over from the US unlocked). If Apple thought it could coast by on EDGE in Europe, it was mistaken. Therefore, it needs to start selling the 3G version there ASAP.
Hardware-wise, Apple has been working on the 3G iPhone since before the EDGE version was released. Chips that run 3G speeds at EDGE energy use (the reason Jobs gave for using EDGE) become available in quantity in Q2 2008.
NEWS: by Stuart Miles
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, has confirmed that there is a 3G iPhone in the works, although fell short of saying when we could expect to buy one.
Making the comments at the "Mum is no longer the word" press conference at the Regent Street Apple store in London, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple said: "You can expect a 3G iPhone later next year".
The news comes as a 2G EDGE-enabled iPhone will be available in the UK on 9 November.
When asked why the current model didn't have 3G, Jobs blamed power issues saying that the 3G chipset would be too much of a drain on the unit's battery life which promises 8 hours of call time, but said that future models would have the technology.
"We are working on the next iPhone already, the one after that and the one after that", Jobs said.
Apple plans to release a 3G iPhone this year. Steve Jobs has said so. So has AT&T CEO, Randall Stephenson. It is a done deal. The questions that remain unanswered are the following:
When exactly will they be available?
What will be the price?
What will the specs be?
I've been doing a bit of research on these questions and have some guesses to share..
When:
Update: Walt Mossberg says June 5th-ish
Apple has stated that the iPhone will be in Asia in 2008. We know that EDGE won't work in Japan but 3G standard UMTS / HSDPA will. Japan is far and away Apple's largest market in Asia, the world's second largest economy and most likely part of the initial iPhone rollout there. Apple has, so far, been rolling out iPhones in six month intervals and the one year anniversary of the iPhone release is June 29th. All signs are pointing to mid 2008 - May-July-ish.
The EDGE-speed iPhone is accepted in the US because 3G is just being built out and frankly Americans don't know what they are missing. However, in Europe, the lack of 3G access is a much bigger issue. We know that the iPhone isn't meeting European sales expectations largely because of its lack of 3G data access (also because people are bringing them over from the US unlocked). If Apple thought it could coast by on EDGE in Europe, it was mistaken. Therefore, it needs to start selling the 3G version there ASAP.
Hardware-wise, Apple has been working on the 3G iPhone since before the EDGE version was released. Chips that run 3G speeds at EDGE energy use (the reason Jobs gave for using EDGE) become available in quantity in Q2 2008.
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