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The 3G iPhone: When?
Posted: 11 September 2007 01:31 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 16 ]
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Re: The 3G iPhone: When?

[quote author=“DawnTreader”]The only question is: When will Apple release the 3G iPhone?

If it is not Mac Expo in a two week,s then MWSF2008. Any time later than Mac Expo, Apple will lose the opportunity for the Christmas shopping season. And I do not think that Apple will piss-off it’s customers that much to release a new iPhone merely a week after a big price drop.

Apple will first get the Christmas shoppers with either the iPod touch or the iPhone and then unleash the 3G iPhone in Europe directly, without waiting for a US-only roll-out first.

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Posted: 11 September 2007 03:09 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 17 ]
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Unless Apple’s found a way to make the battery life impact insignificant, it shouldn’t introduce 3G capability until there’s 3G coverage in at least all “major” cities.  Even then, the people who were clamoring for 3G will simply start complaining that there’s no 3G reception in, say, the Nebraska cornfields, and that all the 3G radio is doing is getting EDGE speeds yet draining the iPhone’s battery at a “3G” clip.  If you’re that pseudo-tech-snobbish or ignorant, Apple doesn’t want you as a customer anyway.

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Posted: 11 September 2007 03:15 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 18 ]
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Mav, if the 3G radio isn’t in use then it won’t be draining the battery. Edge uses less power, irrespective if whether the phone also has 3G capability. Think of it has a hybrid fuel car wink

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Posted: 11 September 2007 04:18 PM [ Ignore ] [ # 19 ]
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We don’t hear much about the Russian market anymore. Early on there was talk that Russia would have the phone first, due to its upscale shoppers. For Christmas, we heard. Now no word of that market at all.

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