I saw a 3G iPhone on the plane last week (carried by an insider). Here’s what I can repeat:
1. The Enterprise apps will seriously threaten RIM. IT departments will be able to remotely enable/disable the handset just like a Blackberry. Exchange integration is tight & will be true push. The App Store [may] also be integrated into an enterprise portal. That may not be available day 1, but sounds like it is coming.
2. AT&T will heavily subsidize the phone for up to one year of sales. Details on the contract weren’t shared, but I understood it to mean AT&T was eating the cost-difference on the handset in order to maintain carrier exclusivity, at least for another year. Target street price in US: $199 with possibility of only one-year contract - that is speculation based upon the rest of conversation.
3. Apple was pissed that AT&T announced this (duh, but interesting to hear it confirmed).
4. The AT&T 3G network is up & running right now. The phone will be announced by Apple "sometime in June", with near-immediate sales availability.
5. The 3G form-factor, casing & color appear identical to the first-gen.
6. A "whole team of engineers" is working on bringing real GPS to the iPhone.
7. Battery life is a bit better than first-gen iPhones.
8. Connection & web usage on the 3G network "screams" - is "very fast".
9. I own a first-gen iPhone and will replace mine in August
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I’m pretty sure you saw a regular iPhone that has the new software on it for developers. I hope you are not serious.
Yes, I’m serious.
And this is supposed to be ready for shipment? I’d expect that with the volume they can expect in the US alone, there would be some leaks from Taipei or Taiwan. Any idea how they are keeping the lid on this? They can’t be paying off all the husbands & wives of the peeps who work on those production lines…
Hope it’s all true though!
The person I spoke to seems well-versed on the topic, so I’m willing to believe this. It is all plausible.
With regard to leaks from manufacturers, there’s simply too much money at stake. Billions, quite literally, over the term of a typical relationship with a customer like Apple.
Why do I not beleive what you have posted john? I could have typed all that and more of what you have just said about the i phone, by reading various articles on the web! So whatever you have said is nothing new and to add to ur story, the new iphone has a different casing, atleast the back is replaced by black coated aluminium!
hey someone,
Thanks for the comment. Feel free to believe whatever you wish, though. I saw what I saw & have reported it here. The casing on the one I saw appeared to be “chrome” just the first-gen phones.
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