The 3G iPhone will be announced June 9, the likely date of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' keynote at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference, analysts said in research notes on Thursday.
The 3G iPhone will be the "first of an impressive wave of new products" from Apple, wrote Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee. They also expect an updated Mac laptop and iPod lines. The Apple conference is scheduled for June 9-13 in San Francisco.
In addition to a 3G iPhone release in early June, the 2.5G model could have a "minor casing change" and a price drop to between US$299 and $349, compared to the current $399, wrote Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, in a research report.
Those predictions are consistent with a February prediction Gardner made that 3G iPhones will be announced by midyear. The 3G iPhone release will help Apple meet its target of shipping 10 million iPhones in 2008, Gardner wrote at the time. Apple is confident it will sell 10 million iPhones this year, officials said during a conference call on Wednesday to discuss the company's second-quarter earnings.
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The 3G iPhone will be the "first of an impressive wave of new products" from Apple, wrote Citi analysts Richard Gardner and Yeechang Lee. They also expect an updated Mac laptop and iPod lines. The Apple conference is scheduled for June 9-13 in San Francisco.
In addition to a 3G iPhone release in early June, the 2.5G model could have a "minor casing change" and a price drop to between US$299 and $349, compared to the current $399, wrote Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, in a research report.
Those predictions are consistent with a February prediction Gardner made that 3G iPhones will be announced by midyear. The 3G iPhone release will help Apple meet its target of shipping 10 million iPhones in 2008, Gardner wrote at the time. Apple is confident it will sell 10 million iPhones this year, officials said during a conference call on Wednesday to discuss the company's second-quarter earnings.
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C'mon Rogers . . .
The second thing getting on my nerves is that I think Rogers will charge a lot for... absolutely nothing in the end.
5MB of Internet in Canada on a cellphone = way too expensive for a developped country. I just can't believe it. And then you pay like one cent per additionnal kilobyte, which is a total ripoff. I'm pretty sure even the US will get 3G before us...
Bell Canada and Telus are going to bid to win the phone
Competion is better for customer, we gonna have better data rate!
I don't care which company is going to win, I'm going to switch for them anyway at any cost to close my actual contract with Bell in Quebec
Try paying Telstra's charges for mobile internet!!
Try paying Telstra's charges for mobile internet!!
why anyone wold use telstra for any internet is beyond me
Bell Canada and Telus are going to bid to win the phone
Competion is better for customer, we gonna have better data rate!
I don't care which company is going to win, I'm going to switch for them anyway at any cost to close my actual contract with Bell in Quebec
thanks for such a useless uninformed post.
3g so not rogers? nice, you do realize rogers has been rolling out UMTS/HSPA network across major metropolitan areas right? they are even currently testing an updated HSDPA at 7.2mbps.
i've been using a 3G device for over a year now.
haha, yeah, bell and telus are going to bid to win the iphone, with their cdma network i'm sure the iphone will fit right in.
dont get me wrong, rogers is pretty brutal with regards to data, and if all 3 companies were gsm based, i'd bet that telus would have been the carrier to get a contract with apple.
I don't even care about 3G. I plan on just using Wifi for my data needs. The data fees are just way too high on Rogers. I can wait until I can get to a hotspot to do email, browsing, ect...
I don't even care about 3G. I plan on just using Wifi for my data needs. The data fees are just way too high on Rogers. I can wait until I can get to a hotspot to do email, browsing, ect...
Yep, WiFi FTW.
(Rogers is GSM, by the way - in response to a previous post.)
I'm in the same boat. GPS would make it pretty compelling.
Lol knowing apple they will advertise it as innovative and the first phone with 3g .
Yea, they're just coming out with something a whole lot of people have asked for since the first iPhone model was released. What a boring move indeed...
Yes, i-rack will come this year.
Only Apple would call that an "impressive wave of new products".
Oooh! He knows a guy that has a bad comment on the phone! Stop the presses!
Seriously though, if it's good enough to sell, and good enough to have all the 800lbs gorillas of the industry to have "iPhone killer" lineups, then its good enough for hype.
It may not be for you, heck it may not even be for me (which I don't know if it is, being in this weird cell-technology hole that is Canada), but so far it has definitely been worth the hype.
Oooh! He knows a guy that has a bad comment on the phone! Stop the presses!
Seriously though, if it's good enough to sell, and good enough to have all the 800lbs gorillas of the industry to have "iPhone killer" lineups, then its good enough for hype.
It may not be for you, heck it may not even be for me (which I don't know if it is, being in this weird cell-technology hole that is Canada), but so far it has definitely been worth the hype.
umm grow up,
so have u even used or seen one. i have used one and seen one, and it did seem pretty,but that was about it, the camera was nice and the multi media capabilities seemd good to me. and when a mac lover tells me its great but not as a phone then i tend to believe him, especially seeing he has been in tech longer than u have probably been alive
Oooh! He knows a guy that has a bad comment on the phone! Stop the presses!
Seriously though, if it's good enough to sell, and good enough to have all the 800lbs gorillas of the industry to have "iPhone killer" lineups, then its good enough for hype.
It may not be for you, heck it may not even be for me (which I don't know if it is, being in this weird cell-technology hole that is Canada), but so far it has definitely been worth the hype.
umm grow up,
so have u even used or seen one. i have used one and seen one, and it did seem pretty,but that was about it, the camera was nice and the multi media capabilities seemd good to me. and when a mac lover tells me its great but not as a phone then i tend to believe him, especially seeing he has been in tech longer than u have probably been alive
And what does that have to do with general hype. If Bill Gates said he doesn't like the iPhone, and he basically helped make tech what it is now, does that mean that we should ban the product?
Yea I mean it is a very nice phone but I think thats all it is a nice phone. No real person has any use for it just a symbol if you ask me. The touch screen is cool but useless I really think most cell phones are over rated with the $500+ price tag on most newer phones and the $50-$200 and even higher bills. Until cell phone rates are lower I do not see spend more then $30 to talk on a phone on top of other bills it is a waste of money.
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Still not the phone for me, but It's good they are adding stuff like GPS and 3g at last, stuff it should have had from day one. Hopefully they will add a camera flash as well
Web apps. Safari Mobile. E-mail. Amazing UI. Touchscreen. iTunes.
You must be from the future where there are even better iPhones!
Web apps... well of course thats new... "web apps" is Apples word for "special version of a website made specifically for the iPhon and nothing else"
Safari Mobile... just apples version of a browser on a phone
E-mail - what??? how is this remotely new technology
Amazing UI - this isn't really "technology" apart from when you rotate it.
Touchscreen... wake up didnt nokia use one on a phone 4 years ago?
Apple iTunes... just apples version of a music player on a phone
You must be from the past when phones were bigger and heavier than bricks.
itunes, email, etc.. I dont care about that.
How about Opera Mobile??? Many rate it better than Safari.
I'm over it already!
No phone is worth that much extra money...
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