Almost one year to the date I blogged about the iPhone finally coming to Canada. Now today, Apple announced that the 3rd version of the iPhone will be coming very soon (June 17th to be exact) and has some great new features. The iPhone 3GS and features some of the following upgrades (along with 3.0):
- Tethering Support
- 3mb Camera
- Tap to focus
- Video
- MMS
- Voice Activation
- Hardware Compass
- Battery Upgrade
- CPU/RAM upgrade
Most of this is old technology, and the iPhone should have had when it launched, but plugged some of the final holes/criticisms of the device. Now we just need a front facing camera, and flash support built into safari.
The only thing stopping me really from getting the iPhone is Rogers. It has been said before, but Rogers is the worst iPhone provider in the world. This is a comparison of the fact that they require a 3 year contract, and they don’t offer unlimited data. I really hope someday soon the spectrum auction that happened late last year here in Canada will open up the GSM spectrum so more than just Rogers will be able to sell the iPhone.
On another note, ngmoco got to show off their game Star Defense, which is available today, and my company Sculpin QA worked on it with them. When I first heard about the iPhone 2 years ago, never did I dream the device would pay my bills, and I wouldn’t even own one. haha.
The one thing that really impressed me today was the application for doctors. I said to myself “wow we are in the future”. This app lets a doctor monitor his patients without actually being in the hospital, now it just needs to read alien life forms and be used by Captain Kirk.
The new device comes in at $199 and will have 16gb of storage. No mention of any new iPod touches, but perhaps that will come out later this summer. Are there better devices out there? Yeah in some areas, but it’s the App Store that really makes this device limitless in terms of expandability. Should be another interesting year.
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As soon as my Aliant contract is up, I’m getting one.
What a fantastic device and although it won’t be able to hold the capacity of music/video my 32G iPod Touch can, it still beats carrying both my Motorola Razr and Ipod in my pockets.
I’m hoping by the time my contract runs up (1 year left), there’ll be a iPhone that holds 32G of storage.
There is a 32gb storage iPhone out with this release, and comes in at $299. Next years model will probably be 32gb at the low end.