3G iPhone is here early July

   iPhone 3G further information… available UK July 11 and coming to France and most other EU countries by 17 July. From €99 and even FREE on some tariffs across Europe.

As with most European countries the price of a new 3G iPhone is being slashed to a norm of €99 or £99 with some operators offering FREE or for €1 on certain tariffs.

In the UK O2 have 4 times as many users registered for the new iPhone 3G than the original, and are expecting to be very busy at launch following their aggressive repricing. FREE iPhone 3G from O2 on £45 pm contract. PAYGO service to be offered soon.

Check out your country operator for more information on launch day 17 July.

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GPS, EDGE, wifi, new apps, new games less than £150! Wow! That was some announcement(s) in San Francisco today. 

iPhone 2 will be available in 22 countries July 11th from $199  for the 8G model there is also a 16G version in black or white from $299. Waiting for € pricing.

The hurdle for 3G was always battery performance and Apple turn things upside down again with an advertised 300 hrs standby, 10 hrs 2G talktime, 5 hours 3G talktime, 5-6 hours high speed web browsing, 7 hours video and 24 hours music…. eat your heart out Blackberry.

Emails with attachment 5 seconds on 3G, 3 seconds on wifi and 18 on EDGE.

iPhone 2 is 36% faster than competitors on wifi.

Apps a plenty including iWork support, MS Word, Excel & Powerpoint docs too and Exchange push email, contacts,calendars, auto discovery, global address book and remote wipe.

Sega, eBay, Band music generation, Pangea, Mobile News (regional), all from FREE to £9.99 from the App Store.

Mobile Me we predicted last weekend and its here, just like the desktop apps but on the web. Sync over the air - Mail, Address Book, iCal on Mac and works with Outlook on the PC. Sync photos too.

60 day free trial of MobileMe with iPhone 2 software will be available July.

6 million iPhones sold in the last 12 months…… bet they beat that in the next 6.

More info on new Apple OS and any other announcements will appear here……. OS 10.6 “Snow Leopard” due for release in around 1 year will focus on performance rather than new features. With reduced size, new OpenCL technology (for accessing graphics processor), 64bit with theoretical access to 16Tb RAM, full Microsoft Exchange out of the box plus “Grand Central” technology to drive performance even faster by optimising multiple core processor access.

A new QuickTime X able to address modern media and internet standards much more efficiently with a brand new implementation of JavaScript which will allow Safari to run 53% faster under Snow Leopard.

As Apple said “A quantum leap in performance”