iPhone 3G will be available in more than 70 countries later this year, beginning with customer availability in 22 countries — Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US — on July 11.
“Just one year after launching the iPhone, we’re launching the new iPhone 3G that is twice as fast at half the price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “iPhone 3G supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync right out of the box, runs the incredible third party apps created with the iPhone SDK, and will be available in more than 70 countries around the world this year.”
iPhone 3G gives users ever faster access to the Internet and email over their cellular network with quad-band GSM and tri-band HSDPA for voice and data connectivity around the world. iPhone 3G supports Wi-Fi, 3G and EDGE networks and automatically switches between them to ensure the fastest possible download speeds. The new iPhone 3G also makes it easier to multi-task with simultaneous voice and data communications, so with iPhone 3G you can browse the web, get map directions, or check your email while you are on a call.
iPhone 3G includes the new iPhone 2.0 software with both the iPhone SDK and key enterprise features such as support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync to provide over-the-air push email, contact and calendar syncing as well as remote wipe and Cisco IPsec VPN for encrypted access to corporate networks. The iPhone SDK allows developers to create amazing applications that leverage the iPhone’s groundbreaking Multi-Touch™ user interface, animation technology, accelerometer and GPS technology on the world’s most advanced mobile platform.
iPhone 3G includes the new App Store, providing iPhone users with native applications in a variety of categories including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel. The App Store on iPhone works over cellular networks and Wi-Fi, which means it is accessible from just about anywhere, so you can purchase and download applications wirelessly and start using them instantly. Some applications are even free and the App Store notifies you when application updates are available. The App Store will be available in 62 countries at launch.
Additional features available with the iPhone 2.0 software include the ability to do real-time mapping and track your progress with GPS technology, mass move and delete multiple email messages, search for contacts, access a new scientific calculator, turn on parental control restrictions for specified content, save images directly from a web page or email them to your iPhone and easily transfer them back to your photo library on your Mac or PC. iPhone 3G delivers an amazing 10 hours of talk time on 2G networks and 5 hours using 3G, with up to 5 to 6 hours of web browsing, up to 7 hours for video playback and up to 24 hours for audio playback.
iPhone 3G takes advantage of MobileMe, a new Internet service that pushes email, contacts, and calendars from an online “cloud” to native applications on iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. With MobileMe email, messages are pushed instantly to iPhone, removing the need to manually check email and wait for downloads, and push keeps contacts and calendars continuously up-to-date so changes made on one device are automatically updated on other devices. With iPhone, you can even snap a photo and post it directly to a MobileMe Gallery to share with friends and family.
iPhone 3G will be available in the US on July 11 for a suggested retail price of $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model in both Apple and AT&T’s retail stores and requires a new two year contract with AT&T for qualifying customers. iPhone 2.0 software will be available on July 11 as a free software update via iTunes 7.7 or later for all iPhone customers.
More information about iPhone 3G here.
July 11 date sucks. I need a phone NOW. Actually, my phone died May 29 and I’ve been holding out. Now I have to figure out what to do for another month. Any suggestions on a temporary phone?
get a go phone for 20 bucks. stick your sim in it.
I like that they have a color option, but I think it might have been some camo for no 32GB. Anyway, nice upgrade Mr. Jobs
Lovely. I wonder if o2 will allow upgrades?
If you’ll notice… All Leaks = Total BS.
You may continue…
did I miss that there was cut and paste capability?
It will then use my regular number, my normal plan, etc?
I almost think that $199 is TOO cheap. Do you think it will become so ubiquitous that it will lose its caché? Also, no price adjustments on the iPod touch??? Maybe they figure AT&T;’s pricing will keep people away…
No cut and paste yet.. But there is bulk email delete and search for contacts, and folders for downloads…
Am I the only one who is left wondering what happened to Bertrand coming up and showing a sneak peak of Snow Leopard?
“Do you think it will become so ubiquitous that it will lose its caché?”
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Yes, at these prices, everyone will own an iPhone, it will be huge. But that’s what Apple wants, it is afterall not just a phone, it is the next generation mobile platform.
‘Am I the only one who is left wondering what happened to Bertrand coming up and showing a sneak peak of Snow Leopard?”
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No, I thought the same thing… Maybe they ran out of time will all those app demos.
Camera? How many megapixels?
Aside from that, seems like everything anyone could ask for.
Oh and thanks to all the iPhone 1.0 <strike>suckers</strike> um <strike>beta testers</strike> um customers. In my book you all deserve a free 3G iPhone, but if you want 3G or GPS, prepare to shell out again.
I predict Apple will sell every single one of these they can make….
I was hoping for the ability to shoot video clips. Even though it’s not one of the features specified by Apple, I think there’s a good chance it will appear as a third party application.
@ too long – yes, go to radio shack and look for clearance phones. they’re usually between $20 and $40 and that’ll tide you over until 7/11
Still shackled to the fascist AT&T;. Deal breaker.
“Oh and thanks to all the iPhone 1.0 suckers um beta testers um customers.”
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Sucker, beta tester? Heck no, we’ve been living with the coolest phone on the planet for the past year while you’ve been stuck using your RAZR.
GPS and better battery are nice, but hardware wise the only major improvement is 3G, and quite frankly, at the moment, 3G coverage is so spotty that most users will still be on EDGE 80% of the time..
Great prices for those who waited, but I’m not disappointed at all that I purchased on day one.
Do you think it will become so ubiquitous that it will lose its caché?
No, and I don’t think it will lose its cachet either… ;~)
Camera? How many megapixels?
Per Steve Jobs:
“Solid metal buttons, the same gorgeous 3.5-inch display, camera”
It seems that he is saying it has the same camera, but I could be wrong.
Oh and thanks to all the iPhone 1.0 suckers um beta testers um customers. In my book you all deserve a free 3G iPhone, but if you want 3G or GPS, prepare to shell out again.
3G service isn’t available in my area and probably won’t be for a while and I don’t travel much. I’ll be fine.
No universal landscape keyboard. : (
A year after release, it hasn’t occurred to anyone at Apple that maybe it could be smart to let us use the wider, more comfortable keyboard outside of Safari.
The crappy iPhone clone makers figured out that much at least.
Steve said Snow Leopard demos were “coming after lunch” so I guess we’ll see no coverage of those.
iPhone cheap, yes. Lost cache, who cares? The more users the better the app development. That’s key.
“Do you think it will become so ubiquitous that it will lose its caché?”
Yeah, that really killed the iPod. >.<
“After lunch, Bertrand Serlet will be giving us a peak of the new OS X — Snow Leopard.” From Mac Rumors coverage.
“Am I the only one who is left wondering what happened to Bertrand coming up and showing a sneak peak of Snow Leopard?”
Steve said that would be in the afternoon, whereas this talk was in the morning. I’m guessing it will be a separate talk for developers only which will be covered by an NDA until Apple wants to publically release more details. To me this is the only reason that makes sense why they would opt to include a long string of App demos instead of a peek at what’s coming in OSX 10.6.
The “Snow Leopard” name makes me think the rumours of it being a “streamlining” update which focuses on improving performance, stability, and security, with no major feature updates may be correct. I’m sure there will be leaks about the big stuff, NDA or no NDA.
Simple features, universal landscape keyboard, mms, even copy and paste. Seriously? Oh, well, I guess I’ll wait another year.
Rogers in Canada got slammed immediately after the keynote, seems to be back up now with no mention of the iPhone:-( Guess they are to stupid to capitalize on a good marketing opportunity.