iPhone 3G – Ready, Steady and Go

O.K. I’m glad that Apple “moved on” with old iPhone model and introducing next generation of iPhone, starting tomorrow. I think last 2-3 years, mainly mobile phones, evolution happening so fast, and definitely this new model from Apple, fuel already heated mobile phone competition. This is good for consumerism dominated society.

This 3G model got more media focus and everywhere talk and thoughts are about iPhone 3G. I think after “Bill Gate’s retirement”, Steve Jobs getting all media focus, because he is the only one now can replace Gates for media to get attention from public.

The main new features of new iPhone 3G are,

1. 3G network support, of course faster than EDGE networks. But we have to check AT&T 3G coverage area. As of now, only major cities have this advance network.

2. Half the price, price for new iPhone slashed by 50% than the previous models, but the catch is new iPhone buyers have to pay $10 per month more for AT&T 3G data plan.

3. GPS support, based on my experience with classic iPhone, Google map is the main breaker of iPhone stability. When ever i open Google map application, iPhone would crash. This new GPS support required constant touch with Google map, so i don’t want to tell the rest. It all depends on how apple improves iPhone software’s stability with this new release. No voice direction available at this time.

4. Custom apps, new iPhone 3G comes with iPhone new software version 2.0, this new software supports to add more applications from 3rd party developers. Some of them are free, and most of them are cost us $9.99. iPhone classic also gets this new software update, so they can also use custom application.

5. Microsoft exchange server support, this is intended for business users, we can use AT&T business data plan or Apple’s MobileMe feature to sync with office email exchange servers.

Why I’m writing this post is, to support guys like me, who wants to buy iPhone 3G but already owned iPhone classic and want to convince their spouse, pretend like "who does’t know anything" about iPhone 3G ;-)

Source : http://www.macworld.com/article/133988/2008/06/iphone3gfaqs.html

Must have product of 2008.

Here comes next cool product from Apple, the ultra thin MacBook Air .20 X .16 inch, like piece of paper laptop introduced by Steve Jobs at MacWorld 2008. The price is $1,766.00, but I think it is worth buying for this year. It looks like after 5-10 years all people in this world at least own one Apple product. Just see, Apple product performance in 2007, 4 million iPhones, 5 million copies of the Leopard operating system, 4 billion songs, 125 million TV shows, 7 million movies. Apple is biggest success of globalization, because they are designing and inventing new products here at California and manufacturing it from China. They are spending more money to invent more products and increase employee's head count. But there is no new products from Apple this year, that makes sense because now they have to concentrate on developing more features and services to existing hardware hence they can sustain this market. iTunes can support now movie downloads(big headache for Netflix), Apple TV can download HD movies directly without a PC, more feature for iPhone. Good this year started with excited news from CES and MacWorld, just we need to save some money and ofcourse wife's permission to buy all these in this year..