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Apple iPhone 2009 comes on 17 July, OLED display on board

Weʼve heard lots of stuff about the next-gen Apple iPhone, but here's a rundown of all the latest rumors. The 17 July announcement of the iPhone 2009 is pretty much clear by now but there are some new juicy bits and pieces.
One of the new rumors states that the iPhone 2009 will use an OLED display instead of the current industry leading unit. As of yet, we haven't seen an AMOLED display to match the iPhone display, but who knows we might be surprised. One thing's for sure, AMOLED displays are more energy efficient than standard LCD units, so that seems like a nice move to bump up the appalling battery life of the iPhone 3G.
As rumors have it the Apple logo on the back of the iPhone 2009 will glow much like the ones on Apple laptops. Well if not for anything else, at least it sounds extra cool.
The new iPhone will also probably get rid of the metallic frame around the display and will feature a 3.2 MP AF camera with video recording, will be able to send image/video MMS, and will have double the RAM and increased processing power.
Previous rumors also state that there will be rubber back surface, generally smoother design and nice features as built-in compass.
Finally, the new iPhone will come in at least two versions - 16GB and 32GB ones. All this stuff sounds quite promising, so we are eager to hear more about it from the Cupertino team.

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Meet the Apple iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 3G is here to stay as well


Pretty much all the rumors regarding the new iPhone turned out true - the iPhone 3GS (S for Speed) has a 3 megapixel camera with video recording and a compass. The unexpected thing however is that 3G S will look exactly as the original iPhone 3G.



Beside the new VGA@30fps video recording, the auto focus camera with touch focus (and everything else automatic) and of course, the built-in compass, there are no other significant changes as compared to iPhone 3G. But there are quite a lot of details that have undergone an update. Check them out right after the official ad video.


The camera should have improved low light sensitivity (whatever that means) and macro mode (10cm). Other than that there still won't be any settings at all to tinker with. A simple video editor will allow to trim your recorded videos.

One other novelty though not as significant is the voice control/dialing. A longer press on the Home button will invoke the voice command interface.

The compass has its own app but also integrates with Google Maps to allow seamless rotation of the map in thre right direction.

The new Accessibility options allow any text that you point at to be read out loud.

Apple have a long-standing cooperation with Nike and their personal running service called Nike+. You'd probably be glad to learn that thanks to the new accessories support that comes with iPhone OS 3.0, the iPhone 3G S has wirless support for the Nike+ system and its monitors.

In response to the numerous security concerns with the previous iPhones, the iPhone 3G S now comes with hardware encryption that safeguards the personal data on board. Additionally iTunes backups are also encrypted. The Remote Wipe feature is now available to all users and is instant.
For those of you who always dreaded losing or misplacing their phone, the iPhone 3G S will offer a special Find my iPhone service that should help you get through those tough times. It will allow the user to locate the phone by simply logging in to MobileMe on any browser.
You can then either send a message to the phone which will play a sound even if it's in silent mode. And in the most unpleasant circumstances that your iPhone 3G S gets stolen you can send a remote wipe command which will delete all of your data, avoiding getting it in the wrong hands. Should you find your iPhone later on, you can sync it up with your latest backup on the computer and you should be up and running in no time.


Even though the new iPhone 3G S has increased functionality and virtually the same dimensions Apple have somehow managed to increase its battery life by about 20 percent. The talk-time in 2G network has been upped to 12 hours (10 on the iPhone 3G) and the audio playback has reached 30 hours (24 on the iPhone 3G). Video playback endurance has been upgraded from 7 to 10 hours, while the stand-by and 3G talk time remain unchanged.


iPhone 3GS availability

The iPhone 3G S will be available as soon as 19 June 2009 in the first wave of countries and it would spread to all the 80 planned countries within a couple of months later.
The first wave will hit USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and UK on 19 June, while the rest of the countries will follow suite on 09 July and 09 August.







Available again in white and black, the iPhone 3G S will retail for 199 US dollars and 299 US dollars for the 16GB and 32GB version respectively.
In the same time, the iPhone 3G will continue selling at a reduced price of only 99 US dollars for the 8GB version.




iPhone OS 3.0

The new iPhone 3GS will come with the version 3.0 of the iPhone OS. Representing a significant update over the currently available one it will be officially released on 17th June. The upgrade will be free for iPhone and iPhone 3G users, while iPod Touch adopters will have to part with 9.95 US dollars to get it.
We have already listed most of its new features when Apple announced it officially but here is a quick refresh of the highlights. Background notification service, system-wide cut, copy and paste will be at the users disposal, along with the cool-sounding shake to undo. The long sought after MMS support is also included and will be supported by 29 carriers at launch, while some like AT&T promise to catch up later on.
iPhone 3.0 OS will come with extended language support for over 30 different languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Greek and Korean. Furthermore the OS will be localized for each supported language.
A hip feature of the new OS is tethering which allows sharing the iPhone internet connection with a desktop computer. It will work with both Macs and PCs, wired over USB, or wireless over Bluetooth, without even needing any additional software to be ran. However, only now Apple revealed that it will require carrier support to work. 22 carriers in 44 countries will support iPhone tethering at launch, but unluckily for our American fellas AT&T is again left out of the list.
A nice surprise is the TomTom GPS navigation application that is already working on the new iPhone OS. Making use of the new APIs in the iPhone OS 3.0 that allow third-party applications to use Maps, GPS navigation is now possible. We really hope there would be some way to pre-download the map data on the phone instead of continuously taking it over-the-air - that can be quite expensive, especially in roaming.
TomTom have also prepared a dedicated windshield mount as an optional accessory, which charges the iPhone beside holding it in place.







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iPhone 3G S get taken apart, CPU and RAM revealed

Apple were quite keen on emphasizing that the new iPhone 3G S was twice as quick as the original iPhone 3G the other day, but they never mentioned the actual specs of the chipset. Luckily details are starting to appear now and it gets clear that the iPhone 3G S packs a powerful 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU and a PowerVR SGX graphics accelerator.

Providing a worthy hardware upgrade over the 412 MHz CPU of the iPhone 3G, the 3G S also packs double the RAM of its predecessor (256MB compared to 128MB on iPhone 3G). Also the CPU of the iPhone has received upgrades in more than just speed. The new core manufacturing process is now 65nm instead of 90nm and has put on more L1 cache, bringing along some L2 cache as well.
The iPhone 3G S comes with double the L1 cache of its predecessor and also introduces 256KB of L2 cache, which isn't supported by the ARM11 CPU of the previous gen iPhones. The GPU has been upgraded too and now the iPhone 3G S comes with PowerVR SGX instead of the much toned down PowerVR MBX-Lite. This accelerator can theoretically give some 600% increase in geometry performance and a 150% increased fill rate.
Unfortunately, the lower specs make the original iPhone 3G unable to support the OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics API, which will come with the iPhone 3G S. That will give the developers a headache as they have to make their apps support OpenGL ES 1.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 if they want to get better performance on the iPhone 3G S and backwards compatibility with the original iPhone 3G.

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Apple iPhone 3GS review

Μου αρέσει που το κινητό 3GS ήταν κακή πρόταση αφού δεν διαφέρει πολλά σημεία αλλά όλοι μιλάνε για αυτό

Έχουμε μάθει τίποτε σχετικά με τη τιμή του;

Όσο κόστιζε και το iPhone 3G όταν βγήκε ...

Αρχική Δημοσίευση από Τα Νέα :

Οι τιμές που έχει ανακοινώσει η Vodafone είναι οι ακόλουθες: Το μοντέλο των 32GB θα κοστίζει 669 ευρώ και το μοντέλο των 16GB θα κοστίζει 569 ευρώ.

Παράλληλα, θα εξακολουθήσει να πωλείται και το παλιότερο μοντέλο iPhone 3G των 8GB στην τιμή των 469 ευρώ. Όλες οι τιμές είναι χωρίς σύνδεση και αφορούν μόνο στην αγορά της συσκευής.

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Ωστόσο υπάρχουν φήμες ότι

Αρχική Δημοσίευση από iPhoneHellas.gr:

Τα πρώτα στοιχεία δείχνουν ότι υπάρχει σημαντική έλειψη στην αγορά σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, και φυσικά μια χώρα σαν την Ελλάδα δεν βρίσκεται και πρώτη στη λίστα για να τροφοδοτηθεί με πολλά κομμάτια. Εκτός απροόπτου, τα iPhone 3GS που θα διατεθούν στην Ελληνική αγορά αύριο θα είναι πολύ λίγα (ίσως κάτω από 1000) και οι περισσότεροι θα πρέπει να περιμένουν τον Σεπτέμβριο για να αποκτήσουν το νέο τους κινητό…

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Ξεκίνησε στην Ελλάδα η επίσημη διάθεση του 3GS.