Apple Launches New iPhone, Sells Old 3G for $99
The waiting is all over, kind of. Apple has announced the newest iPhone, the 16 GB iPhone 3GS which will launch on June 19 at the old price point of $199.
Better than that, the old 8 GB iPhone 3G will sell at a new price of $99, starting today. Among the rumors that turned out to be complete fabrications are the forward facing camera, a soft rubber backing for a better grip on the phone, different colors ala the iPod Nano and FM radio.
However, confirmed was the aforementioned bump in capacity for the top model (from 16 GB to 32 GB), turn by turn navigation, a 3 MP camera with autofocus, tap to focus, video (30fps), MMS (though AT&T won’t be ready for it until sometime in the summer), improved battery life (9 hours of Wi-Fi browsing and up to 24 hours of music playback), and what we didn’t know about iPhone 3.0 before: the ability to rent or buy movies, TV shows or audio books through iTunes, directly from your phone. Extremely handy for when you’re about to go on a long flight. Looks-wise, it's pretty much exactly the same phone.
So how about it? Anyone tempted to buy the new iPhone? In all honesty, iPhone 3.0 is going to bring a lot of new features (like cut, copy, paste, MMS, etc.) so we’d be happy with either. More importantly, if there any new Pre owners now regretting their purchase? Let us know!
I hate ATT.
How much $ would Apple loose if they pulled out of their exclusive agreements? I would say that in the long run they stand to gain more by doing so.
But I’m just a drone, what is my spit worth?
As for the competition with Palm Pre I still think the comparison is wrong.
The iPhone is more of a personal entertainment center and status symbol than a phone. The Palm Pre on the other hand is more of a PDA than a mediacenter, and it will do a good job for those wanting a Personal Digital Assistant to help them multitask keeping track of agreements, meetings and free time. For bussiness users I would expect the Pre to beat the iPhone, as a personal phone/entertainment center the iPhone wins.
I am too cheap. Those contracts are nasty.
ATT supports tethering on several of its phones. Its deliberately disabled on the iphone. So whether that's ATT or Apple I'm not sure.
I won't get a zune.
I will buy the new 3GS
i personally prefer the way the zune music download/buy system is run. monthly rates are fun and ATT service is so crappy i'd rather just stick with a half cheapo phone. I carry a laptop around so having a iphone is kind of pointless for me.
I personally prefer my phone to have.. you know.. phone qualities and such... Which is why I wouldn't get a Zune...
Think of other mobile phones - 5mpx camera is a minimum for a mid-range phone with 8mpx and even 12mpx camera rounding out the high end. The new Iphone has only a 3mpx cam and for the asking price it seems a little thin. My old viewty still kicks out great pics and I have plenty of room to store them thanks to an 8GB card.
I haven't heard any news of this phone's GPS capabilities, but what I do remember was a friend being bitterly disappointed by the meek GPS receiver on his 3G and with all the 3rd party software available, couldn't use the GPS on the handset unless piggybacked by expensive data charges.
By what I have read, the Iphone 3.0 has some great new features yet to be seen on a handset (The compass and tracking abilities, enormous amount of internal storage), but I feel given the technology and capabilities of other phones out on the market right now, I feel this is what the "old" Iphone should have been and this one is 90% perfect, especially with some new innovative features, just with a few areas I personally feel should have been increased somewhat. We would then have the perfect mobile device.