ltdiver 3 #1 June 9, 2008 Surprised I didn't see a post on this already! Front Page of the Apple Site Says...New G3 iPhone is Here July 11. Think I'll go trade in my 2 week old cell phone now.... ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigway 4 #2 June 9, 2008 At last, now it is 3G it will finally come to australia. Wonder if this has anything to do with the massive apple secret that is being built in sydney .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #3 June 9, 2008 Quote At last, now it is 3G it will finally come to australia. Wonder if this has anything to do with the massive apple secret that is being built in sydney Probably. See: iPhone Released World-wide ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigway 4 #4 June 9, 2008 WOW. My contract is up on july the 15th so i should be getting a free one from my provider if i agree to sign up to this extraordinary high plan for another 18 months. .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #5 June 9, 2008 It finally has GPS, which I thought was an unforgivable omission from the original."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #6 June 9, 2008 QuoteIt finally has GPS, which I thought was an unforgivable omission from the original. Actual GPS, or 'faux-GPS' from cell phone tower signals? (I can't see any of the vids, so...)Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Remster 30 #7 June 9, 2008 QuoteQuoteIt finally has GPS, which I thought was an unforgivable omission from the original. Actual GPS, or 'faux-GPS' from cell phone tower signals? (I can't see any of the vids, so...) It already had "Faux GPS" (I like that term! lol)Remster Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #8 June 9, 2008 QuoteQuoteIt finally has GPS, which I thought was an unforgivable omission from the original. Actual GPS, or 'faux-GPS' from cell phone tower signals? (I can't see any of the vids, so...) Real GPS."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigway 4 #9 June 9, 2008 All the apple resellers have a box that is not allowed to be opened until June 10th. That is today. The new store opens in 9 days so it should be on sale pretty soon here. Apparently there is no contract lock in on them eeither. .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #10 June 9, 2008 QuoteQuoteQuoteIt finally has GPS, which I thought was an unforgivable omission from the original. Actual GPS, or 'faux-GPS' from cell phone tower signals? (I can't see any of the vids, so...) Real GPS. Not from what I could see on the tech spec page, unless there's something I missed (entirely possible). I don't see any reference to a GPS chip, only to "Assisted GPS", which could be either positioning via cell tower signals alone, or in combination with an internal GPS.Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigway 4 #11 June 9, 2008 It said you can install GPS applications such as tomtom etc (without actually saying the branding tomtom. .Karnage Krew Gear Store . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #12 June 9, 2008 Apparently, Steve was reading my previous post. LOL. I can see him stewing somewhere in Cupertino ... "ooooohhhh, I'm gonna show that Riddler" The biggest improvement will be not paying $500 for one of these. Too bad I got a second one in February The second biggest is using 3G - the iPhone data is unforgiveably slow. The true GPS is a bonus. With these additions, plus the announcement that the iPhone firmware 2.0 will have true A2DP, the iPhone is looking to edge out over the Blackberry to become the better of the two. Blackberry keyboards will always be better than a touchscreen, though. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #13 June 10, 2008 QuoteQuoteIt finally has GPS, which I thought was an unforgivable omission from the original. Actual GPS, or 'faux-GPS' from cell phone tower signals? (I can't see any of the vids, so...) looks like both GPS and Maps from the OZ siteYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #14 June 10, 2008 QuoteQuoteQuoteIt finally has GPS, which I thought was an unforgivable omission from the original. Actual GPS, or 'faux-GPS' from cell phone tower signals? (I can't see any of the vids, so...) looks like both GPS and Maps from the OZ site Good deal, then.Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #15 June 10, 2008 Quote Quote Quote Quote It finally has GPS, which I thought was an unforgivable omission from the original. Actual GPS, or 'faux-GPS' from cell phone tower signals? (I can't see any of the vids, so...) looks like both GPS and Maps from the OZ site Good deal, then. My Nokia 6110 has GPS it has come in very handyYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #16 June 10, 2008 Quote Good deal, then. My Nokia 6110 has GPS it has come in very handy"Can you find me now?....Good.""There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riddler 0 #17 June 10, 2008 Quote My Nokia 6110 has GPS it has come in very handySmile My Blackberry has a GPS chip, and the stupid carrier (Verizon) disabled it, so they can sell a $10/month triangulation service that works half the time. Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #18 June 10, 2008 So basically Apple released a phone with the technology that was already old when the first version came out. He took everyone for a ride at $399 and now is going to get all the fanboys to drop another huge chunk of change to get slightly up to date with the rest of the smartphone crowd. Oh ya, then there is the increase AT&T is including with the phone plan if you upgrade to 2.0. Meanwhile, I've had all the same technology on my phone for the last 2.5 years at a cheaper cost and a cheaper phone plan. Having real GPS in my phone over the last year has been a very nice thing at times. Plus full native support of all Adobe and MS document formats. Also, full support of every IM client and google mail, yahoo mail, hotmail and full Exchange Enterprise integration. If you want to toss out the 16gb of memory for music an iTunes support, go ahead. I prefer my $14/month subscription to Zune that allows me to download as many songs as I want. I've already downloaded 7000 songs from Zune in three months! Outside of that, I could care less about portable gaming._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DougH 270 #19 June 10, 2008 Time to see if the electronic tweakers figured out away to reactivate it."The restraining order says you're only allowed to touch me in freefall" =P Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HSPScott 0 #20 June 10, 2008 Screen capture from Apple.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #21 June 10, 2008 http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/06/10/the-iphones-new-business-model/ QuoteAs its press release made clear, it’s going to make up for that by raising the $20 monthly fee customers pay for unlimited data services to $30. That works out to $240 extra over the life of a two-year contract. “Half the price,” it turns out, is actually $40 more. So, you will be paying more for v2.0, $40 more over the length of the contract._________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brains 2 #22 June 10, 2008 Quote Screen capture from Apple.com So you gonna get one now?? Never look down on someone, unless they are going down on you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mnealtx 0 #23 June 10, 2008 QuoteScreen capture from Apple.com Ok - now go to the SPECS page for the new phone and find the reference to WHAT gps chip is in it...or did you not actually read my post? All it says in regard to the GPS is "Assisted GPS", which covers a wide psectrum. Apparently, it actually does have a GPS chip in it - good. It should have had one from the beginning.Mike I love you, Shannon and Jim. POPS 9708 , SCR 14706 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murrays 0 #24 June 10, 2008 What I found more interesting about yesterday's keynote was the announcement of Snow Leopard, the next version of OS X. No new user features! They are going to make under the hood improvements to make better use of multicore chips and REDUCE the footprint of OS X to make it more efficient and reliable. I think that is an excellent move....concentrating on improving a good OS instead of adding more complexity/features. From Macrumors.com...... Apple has posted pages for Mac OS X Snow Leopard for both server and client and describe a bit of what users can expect from the next OS X release. Apple promises that Snow Leopard "dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos." Some early screenshots from the Developer seed of Snow Leopard do indeed show significantly smaller application file sizes over current Leopard installations. Other features listed on Apple's site were largely touched on in the press release. The New York Times, however, reveals that Snow Leopard's big focus is taking advantage of the recent trend towards multi-core and parallel computer processes. Steve Jobs provided some information on Apple's direction: "We've added over a thousand features to Mac OS X in the last five years," he said Monday in an interview after his presentation. "We’re going to hit the pause button on new features." .... “The way the processor industry is going is to add more and more cores, but nobody knows how to program those things,” he said. “I mean, two, yeah; four, not really; eight, forget it.” According to Jobs, Apple has made a parallel-programming breakthrough. Specifically, Apple claims their new "Grand Central" technology is "way beyond what Nvidia or anyone else has." There had been talk from Nvidia's CEO that Apple may adopt their CUDA technology, but it appears that Apple's implementation may be more advanced. CUDA allows programmers to offload processing to the computer's graphics processors, which can be very powerful. Apple's focus on parallel computing comes at a natural time with Intel upcoming plans for Nehalem processors which will scale up to 8-core processors. Apple has announced that Snow Leopard will be delivered in "about a year".-- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,590 #25 June 10, 2008 Quote My Blackberry has a GPS chip, and the stupid carrier (Verizon) disabled it, so they can sell a $10/month triangulation service that works half the time. SOP for VZW to force customers to use crippled devices. Friends don't let friends sign up with VZW. (ex-VZW customer)"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
