3G iPhone rumored to be Infineon-powered, hitting "mid-year"
By Paul Miller 
posted February 28th 2008 12:06PM
posted February 28th 2008 12:06PM
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"We've got a good feeling about this one, guy"
Better than the LAST "good feeling"? SIGN ME UP!!!
Give me 3G and 32 gig storage, and I'm in.
Although i don't even want an iphone... I imagine the old models are gonna get super cheap when the new ones are gonna come out. Maybe I'll buy one and leave it lying around the house. It seems wrong to not buy it if it's really cheap.
Give me 3G and 32 gig storage and a space shuttle, and I'm in. Won't buy before the space shuttle deal, that's for sure.
Ryan TV: I just dont get why people feel the need to carry there whole library with them all at one time and spend hundreds of dollars for it. There are services that allow you to access your itunes library via streaming, you know, maybe even for free.
mrmimis06,
Because sometimes you want to listen to your music in the elevator, on the subway, or in the mountains. You know, places that don't get cellular signals.
@mrmimis06
Because the iphone also plays more than just music? Just a guess.
mrmimis06,
1. I rip to Apple Lossless so 16 gigs is nothing to me.
2. Yeah sometimes I want to listen to Ole Dirty Bastard right after I'm done with the 1812 Overture. I roll like that.
3. My iTunes folder is like 263 gigs right now. So, uh, see 1 & 2.
4. Different people want to carry different stuff. My son only listens to one album at a time over and over and over but I bet the kid would fill up an iPhone with video in a heartbeat. Options are always better. To quote my roommate buying a hard drive a few years back, "Two gigs? Why the hell would I ever need two gigs?"
3G, GPS, 8GB (or more, so long as they keep the same price), no new contract, $299, and I will buy one to replace my old iPhone.
ODB R.I.P...
Wake me up when there's a CDMA / EVDO Rev.A version.
please wake up & step into the real WORLD.
wake up & go with the world.
You'll be sleeping a long, long, long time!
Probably forever since AT&T have a 5 year exclusivity contract and they use global standards and none of that weird CDMA stuff :)
To Tamogno:
Yeah, I really miss my GSM phones sending screaching noises through all of my radios/speakers. Ever since the switch I made to Sprint/CDMA, it has been pure bliss.
And why would I need to join "the rest of the world" when it comes to my phone?
If you would sleep that long, people may misinterpret you to be dead. So, wake up Now!
Now thats what iam tlaking about. Iam not changing services and my GREAT SERO plan for no phone. CDMA/REV.A or bust.
yet another reason the iphone has no place in my house.... real world? weird gsm stuff?
bs.
gsm gets no signal in my house.. but "weird CDMA" does.. so what's weird about it? better signal? yeah. eat that foot.
Prokanda,
You must have a "weird" house than.
My house is in Europe, and I don't get "weird CDMA" in my.... continent.
YA RLY!
truth.
It's about damn time...
Now all we need is a 3G BlackBerry!
Yay! Maybe now I will get this bloated blog I like to read to load up called Engadget before my arms get tired of holding the iPhone.
Arms the size of twigs.
Oh, give me a break. I read Engadget on my iPhone via Edge all the time, and it's not that bad. Would I like better? Sure. But it's not unbearably or unusably slow.
You should try using Google Reader and just subbing the RSS feed of Engadget. Works great.
Or read m.engadget.com
So what they're saying is the current iPhone ISN'T 3G?! I've been duped and gloriously missold!
Well then that is your own fault. Nobody ever said current iPhones had 3G.
You plum, it was a joke.
Does it have an open SDK yet?
Does it have a slide-out qwerty keyboard yet?
Can I get it on T-Mobile USA?
Will it work with their 3G?
Didn't think so. Not interested.
"a slide-out qwerty keyboard"
you're kidding right?
I wont buy a phone without a keypad. I learned on my first iphone. I wont buy another.
The iPhone also makes a fantastic throwing star-like object!
THUNK!
Danny: Not kidding. I hate the iPhone's on screen keyboard. And, having used other devices which had physical keyboard or virtual-keyboard options, I found myself MUCH happier with the physical keyboard.
For one, you can see the entire screen while typing. For two (with the iPhone), you could do SMS in landscape orientation, which I would greatly prefer over its "obscure half the screen, and only usable in portrait orientation" implementation.
Yup, a slide out QWERTY keyboard - like the Samsung F-700, that is the very opposite of the iPhone. The F-700 has a tactile keyboard but not so well conceived software / GUI. It is well known that long term operation of a touch screen will cause pain - there is no relief that regular keyboards offer by absorbing some of the impact. Apple have proven with the original (and ground breaking) iPod Nano (and 1st gen iPhone) that they can miniaturise when they try hard - so no reason why by mid 2008 they cannot offer a next gen iPhone in the same form factor with these specs:
a) Built in GPS, real GPS!, not fake as per Nokia N95 and most other phones.
b) 3 MP or greater camera with auto focus and xenon flash - protected and hidden behind a...
c) ...slideout QWERTY keyboard that can be detached to make it easy to swap if phone is imported or re-sold to an owner of different nationality.
d) Haptic feedback on the touch screen
e) Proper 3.5mm audio jack
f) Stereo bluetooth to work with my lovely Sony stereo BT headset
g) Intelligent formatting of web pages, not just clever zooming. (My Sony Ericsson K800i browser displays web pages at a size I can read right away, I do not need to zoom in and out first. The iPhone browser is sexy, but actually a pain - IMHO!)
h) Stereo FM radio with INTERNAL antenna like the new Sony Ericsson W980
That should do it! And I'll buy or upgrade to a next gen iPhone if it happens. Apple?
Slide-out qwerty keyboards are great if you like phones as thick as a 1996 Nokia.
I think a thin slide-out keyboard should be doable, if Samsung can get a slider to be so thin and the new Sony Xperia isn't all that thick either. Real GPS would be nice as well along with nav software.
I cant wait for the 3G Iphone - main reason I switched to ATT
Does it mean old ones will be sell for cheap?
Not from Apple.
This was my first time submitting a story to engadget and you guys actually posted it! I'm so excited. The 3G iPhone is also pretty exciting. If they bump it up to 32 gigs I will pay no matter how much it is.
i hope they move the camera to the screen side, making possible some cool new apps. The only challenge would be finding the "shutter" icon when aiming the camera away from you. There's room for the camera above or below the mic slot, without putting it on a corner where sleeves and cases would obscure it.
yeah, cos the slight extra cost having only one camera on the front is totally worth the hassle of NOT BEING ABLE TO AIM THE CAMERA.
Just put a second camera on for christ's sake
i think i overlooked the obvious. I yield to Phoenix!
LOL. Thank goodness you are not an Apple product designer.
True that.
Can't come soon enough. I'm ready for a new phone, but I think it would be silly to pay $400 or $500 for an iPhone at this time. Hopefully by the time the 2nd Gen iPhone comes out (3G, GPS, voice recorder, voice dialing would be sweet), it will have compeition from the SE Experia and maybe an early Android device. Should be a good year for mobile phone buyers!
I used to think i was waiting for 3G and 802.11n.
But the more I look at my actual data use, the more I think all they really need is a functional SDK. The 3G coverage in my area is crap anyway, and the iPhone can't do anything so useful over wifi that I need more bandwidth. (doesn't stream video/audio. doesn't share. etc)
About the only hardware bump I'd really care about, is a better camera. Maybe GPS.
The rest? I'll take it. But 3G and n are not going to make the sale without an SDK.
Is there an iPhone version of this site available? I really like how iLounge has one set up; makes it a lot easier to read.
got to say, i'm a little concerned about these iphone friendly sites. keep sites as they are, forcing the iphone dev team - and external developers once the sdk is released - to release flash support, windows media support, real player (urgh) support, etc, stop safari from crashing under heavy ajax calls, increase data speeds (starting with 3G), bully the networks to make them increase coverage, widen their edge coverage, etc, or....
rebuild your site, so its lightweight and basic and so the current iphone is happy.
hhmmmmm....
@danny
good points and your logic is spot on. but i gotta say websites are wayyyy too top-heavy and most flash is crap ads. i _love_ having flash and JS disabled by default on firefox.
plus the real issue is form-factor. 3.5" is just too damn small and constant pinching is starting to get old. bottom-line: there needs to be mobile and/or iphone friendly websites for the forseeable future.
so my point is: usually less is more. craigslist FTW