The 3g iPhone will be available July 11th for $199 (8GB) and $299 (16GB)
It looks like Apple’s surprisingly good cover up job on the 3G iPhone is finally done for. CrunchGear has their hands on some very realistic shots demonstrating, among other things, video chatting, a Product (Red) model, Exchange, iChat (for Windows) and other little tidbits. It also includes definitive, once and for all proof that the iPhone 3g does include… 3g.
Updated with new, real photos.
Have you ever thought to yourself - gee, how can I make my iPhone look even more nerdy? Well, you’re in luck. Griffin is killing two birds with one stone with their Clearboost iPhone case, which allegedly improves cell signal while only making you look a little lot dorky.
iLounge spent a week with the little trinket and gave it a respectible B+ rating, citing, “Over the course of five days of testing, we used a ClearBoost-covered iPhone indoors and outdoors alongside one or two iPhones without a ClearBoost case, trying various locations that were known to have great, good, or poor reception. We found that the antenna boosting performance displayed some fairly consistent characteristics: it is almost always a net positive, but it will not be a panacea for those suffering from complete service outages, and under some circumstances, it will do nothing.”
You can give the full review a read here
Nobody outside of Apple’s core group of bigwigs and monocle-wearing Monopoly men knows exactly when the 3G iPhone will be released, but Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey has already been 1 for 1 with his surprisingly accurate prediction that the current generation iPhone will receive a simple size bump in Feburary. The relevance here is that with a strong track record, there may be significant weight to his claim that a new iPhone in the second half of 2008 “[will] have a similar form factor as the current version although it could have a different look and will probably include 3G capability.” That sounds fairly vauge, but he was the first to accuratly predict the update and comes from a reputable ilk, so perhaps there is some basing to his statement.
The June date is simply placed due to its proximity to Apple’s WWDC convention, where they unveiled the shipping date for the original iPhone. Many other sources are claiming a June date, so it is shaping up to be both a fairly reasonable estimate and a very likely outcome.
To summarize, you have about two months to sell your old iPhone on eBay before the 3G version comes rumbling along to kill your resale value.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video has to be worth a couple grand.
This video shows off the Nav N Go iGo My Way 8 GPS, though oddly named, as the first commercial hardware GPS solution for the iPhone. Nav N Go’s site claims that the release of the product is “pending the SDK”, which, if the reports are true, is set to be unveiled sometime in the very near future.
They will use the Gomite locoGPS for the hardware end of things.
In my last post, I detailed a method that would allow you to hardware unlock a new model iPhone. Since then, things have progressed greatly on the software front and for the first time in quite a while, a software All-In-One package is released to unlock any model iPhone, including 1.1.3 OTB iPhones (8gb and 16gb).
Using a software called ZiPhone, anyone can unlock a 1.1.3 OTB iPhone. There are a few conditions to be met, and the software is a work in progress, but positive reports are across the board.
The dirty details are as follows from the bundled Readme:
Zibri has the scoop and download links (we’re going to shy away from direct links at the moment) but this is something that is definitely worth checking out. Click the blue Zibri link there to check it out.
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