3G iPhone - Good For Business
After all the anticipation and discussion, the most awaited product launch of the year has finally been revealed.
As expected, prices have dropped for the new iPhone, with is now starting at $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB.
So how many of the rumors were accurate? read below to see.
As expected, it is 3G. There wouldn’t be much point without it now. Apple is claiming load times 36% faster then the Nokia N95 and the Treo 750, so speed will be an improvement over existing 3G phones.
It has the edge design similar to the MacBook Air, comes in black or white (no metal) and includes a flush headphone jack, but one rumored item that is missing is the front facing video camera.
A feature heavily lacking in the previous model was enterprise support, and this has been taken care of with the ability to work with MS Exchange. You will now be able to get push email, calendar and contacts with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.
As rumored, it has GPS, with Apple using A-GPS, which uses a combination of regular satellite GPS data and location data from mobile phone towers.
With all of these features, you would expect battery life to suffer, but Apple claims 300 hours of standby, 8-10 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G talk, 7 hours of video and 24 hours of audio.
The App Store is for all those great 3rd party apps that will be coming out and this could be a real boon for the mobile business person, not always wanting to take a laptop into the field.
I am putting my order in, that’s for sure.
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