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Wow, this is highly unusual for Apple to lose track of a new product prior to release. I wonder if they're doing it on purpose? Check out the videos and pictures before the takedown notices ensue.
images courtesy of Gizmodo.
From Twice News Daily:
The latest version of the iPhone, the iPhone 3G S, will debut in U.S. stores June 19 with double the wireless-download speeds and more memory capacity than current models, Apple announced today at its worldwide developers conference.
The 16GB version of the iPhone 3G S will retail for $199, and a 32GB version will retail for $299, when purchased with two-year AT&T wireless contract and eligible service plans. The current 8GB iPhone 3G remains in the line but at a price that was cut immediately to $99 from $199. The existing $299 16GB iPhone 3G will be dropped from the lineup when current supplies run out, but its price has been reduced in the interim to $149.
The price moves put pressure on competing touchscreen-equipped smartphones, including the Palm Pre, which debuted June 6 on the Sprint network at $199 with 8GB of embedded memory and no memory card slot.
The 3G S will be available through AT&T, Apple, Best Buy and Walmart stores.
The new 3G S features the iPhone 3.0 OS, which will also be available for free downloading to current iPhones on June 17.
The 3G S looks like the current 3G, but besides the previously announced upgrades enabled by the 3.0 OS, the iPhone 3G S adds 7.2Mbps high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) cellular-data technology. The AT&T network technology doubles theoretical peak download speeds from the 3.6Mbps available to the iPhone 3G, whose actual throughput averages 700kbps to 1.7Mbps.
The new models also add:
* upgraded camera with 3-megapixel resolution, autofocus, auto white balance, macro focus, low-light capability and a “tap to focus” feature in which users tap on an object in the display to adjust focus and exposure;
* digital compass integrated with map displays;
* voice control of phone functions, applications, and dialing;
* reduced application launch times;
* longer battery life;
* OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for improved 3-D graphics; and
* built-in communication with the optional $19 Nike+iPod sensor to track miles run or sync with the latest generation gym equipment.
On the iPhone 3G and 3G S, the 3.0 OS delivers cellular downloading of purchased or rented movies, plus TV shows and music videos, from the iTune store. The OS also enables a remote-wipe feature, which lets subscribers remotely delete all stored data from a lost iPhone. A Find My iPhone feature lets users push messages to lost phones to notify the finder to call the owner at a certain number. If the iPhone is returned, wiped-out data can be restored by connecting to the iTunes site.
Other previously announced features of the iPhone 3.0 operating system include ability to support GPS applications that deliver turn-by-turn driving instructions. Here at the conference, TomTom unveiled its driving-direction application for the OS.
More than 100 other features enabled by the 3.0 OS, also available for downloading to the iPod Touch, include:
* 30 fps video capture with ability to post videos to the web or send them by email or MMS (multimedia messaging service); AT&T will enable iPhone 3G and 3G S MMS in the summer;
* the ability to cut and paste text across multiple applications;
* searching for keywords across multiple applications;
* background notification of text and instant messages via sound, text or badge alerts;
* cellular MMS (multimedia messaging service);
* camcorder capability;
* stereo Bluetooth;
* peer-to-peer Bluetooth connections;
* shake to shuffle;
* automatic login at Wi-Fi hot spots;
* access to Google and Yahoo shared calendars;
* the ability to forward and delete multiple messages;
* parental controls for TV shows, movies and apps from the iTunes Store; and
* the ability to view email in landscape mode and type emails on a landscape-mode virtual keyboard, not just on a portrait-mode keyboard...
The 3.0 software is available June 17 as a free software update to existing iPhones but costs $9.95 for Touch users.
The latest version of the iPhone, the iPhone 3G S, will debut in U.S. stores June 19 with double the wireless-download speeds and more memory capacity than current models, Apple announced today at its worldwide developers conference.
The 16GB version of the iPhone 3G S will retail for $199, and a 32GB version will retail for $299, when purchased with two-year AT&T wireless contract and eligible service plans. The current 8GB iPhone 3G remains in the line but at a price that was cut immediately to $99 from $199. The existing $299 16GB iPhone 3G will be dropped from the lineup when current supplies run out, but its price has been reduced in the interim to $149.
The price moves put pressure on competing touchscreen-equipped smartphones, including the Palm Pre, which debuted June 6 on the Sprint network at $199 with 8GB of embedded memory and no memory card slot.
The 3G S will be available through AT&T, Apple, Best Buy and Walmart stores.
The new 3G S features the iPhone 3.0 OS, which will also be available for free downloading to current iPhones on June 17.
The 3G S looks like the current 3G, but besides the previously announced upgrades enabled by the 3.0 OS, the iPhone 3G S adds 7.2Mbps high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) cellular-data technology. The AT&T network technology doubles theoretical peak download speeds from the 3.6Mbps available to the iPhone 3G, whose actual throughput averages 700kbps to 1.7Mbps.
The new models also add:
* upgraded camera with 3-megapixel resolution, autofocus, auto white balance, macro focus, low-light capability and a “tap to focus” feature in which users tap on an object in the display to adjust focus and exposure;
* digital compass integrated with map displays;
* voice control of phone functions, applications, and dialing;
* reduced application launch times;
* longer battery life;
* OpenGL ES 2.0 standard for improved 3-D graphics; and
* built-in communication with the optional $19 Nike+iPod sensor to track miles run or sync with the latest generation gym equipment.
On the iPhone 3G and 3G S, the 3.0 OS delivers cellular downloading of purchased or rented movies, plus TV shows and music videos, from the iTune store. The OS also enables a remote-wipe feature, which lets subscribers remotely delete all stored data from a lost iPhone. A Find My iPhone feature lets users push messages to lost phones to notify the finder to call the owner at a certain number. If the iPhone is returned, wiped-out data can be restored by connecting to the iTunes site.
Other previously announced features of the iPhone 3.0 operating system include ability to support GPS applications that deliver turn-by-turn driving instructions. Here at the conference, TomTom unveiled its driving-direction application for the OS.
More than 100 other features enabled by the 3.0 OS, also available for downloading to the iPod Touch, include:
* 30 fps video capture with ability to post videos to the web or send them by email or MMS (multimedia messaging service); AT&T will enable iPhone 3G and 3G S MMS in the summer;
* the ability to cut and paste text across multiple applications;
* searching for keywords across multiple applications;
* background notification of text and instant messages via sound, text or badge alerts;
* cellular MMS (multimedia messaging service);
* camcorder capability;
* stereo Bluetooth;
* peer-to-peer Bluetooth connections;
* shake to shuffle;
* automatic login at Wi-Fi hot spots;
* access to Google and Yahoo shared calendars;
* the ability to forward and delete multiple messages;
* parental controls for TV shows, movies and apps from the iTunes Store; and
* the ability to view email in landscape mode and type emails on a landscape-mode virtual keyboard, not just on a portrait-mode keyboard...
The 3.0 software is available June 17 as a free software update to existing iPhones but costs $9.95 for Touch users.
Financially struggling Sirius XM Radio Inc. is planning to stream its subscription radio service to the iPhone and iPod Touch devices from Apple Inc. beginning this spring.
After narrowly avoiding a filing for bankruptcy protection last month, the nation's only satellite radio provider wants to step up sales directly to consumers. New car purchases - which had been Sirius' best source of customers - are way down.
Sirius XM also said in a call Thursday to discuss its fourth-quarter earnings that it's ramping up efforts to reach buyers of used cars with factory-installed satellite radios.
After narrowly avoiding a filing for bankruptcy protection last month, the nation's only satellite radio provider wants to step up sales directly to consumers. New car purchases - which had been Sirius' best source of customers - are way down.
Sirius XM also said in a call Thursday to discuss its fourth-quarter earnings that it's ramping up efforts to reach buyers of used cars with factory-installed satellite radios.
"We've been testing a number of initiatives to make the Sirius XM content and experience more ubiquitous," said Jim Meyer, president of operations and sales at New York-based Sirius.
Sirius now has 19 million subscribers, up 10 percent from a year earlier.
If you listened to TwiT this week you heard Leo and the gang talk about the one million missing iPhones. You see, Apple states over 3.7 million iPhones were sold in 2007; yet AT&T's figures are "just at or sightly under two million." So the question was, are there really 1.7 million unsold iPhones sitting in retail stores? While people could have purchased iPhones over the holidays and have yet to activate them with AT&T, that still leaves a lot of iPhones unaccounted for. New York Times today says they've found them; all over the world iPhones are being sold legitimately or not.read more | digg story
In a move to prevent unauthorized resellers from buying them, Apple has moved to require a credit or debit card be used to purchase any iPhone from now on. That's right, you now cannot go into an Apple store and purchase an iPhone with cash. Apple is also limiting iPhone sales to two per person. Many people have apparently purchased multiple iPhones to resell them, including those looking to unlock the phones so they work on networks other than AT&T.Thus we come to the real reason behind this decision-Apple believes 250,000 iPhones sold so far were purchased with the intent of unlocking and resale.
At first I thought this would be illegal, since our money says it is "legal tender for all debts, public and private." And it's true if you owe someone a debt, they cannot refuse cash. However, according to the US Treasury website,
There is no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise.Since you are buying a product, Apple apparently has the right to make the credit card only policy. Of course, this may be challenged in court if someone has the determination to sue Sir Steve over this.
read more | digg story
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