Telstra subscribers in Australia will soon be able to get their hands on the Apple iPhone 3G. The handset will be available starting July 11 at a price of $279 for the 8GB model or $399 for the 16GB model and will come with a 2-year contract.
The carrier also announced Next G iPhone 3G plans, which start from $30 per month and include free Wi-Fi access at Telstra hotspots.
A pre-release version of iTunes 7.7 was issued by Apple for developers. The Read Me file of the iTunes installer gives a hint at a previously unannounced iPhone/iPod Touch application. Here's what it sais:
"Use iTunes 7.7 to sync music, video, and more with iPhone 3G, and download applications from the iTunes Store exclusively designed for iPhone and iPod touch with software version 2.
Remember this, future iPhone 3G users in the UK: turn off the "Data Roaming" setting on your handset when traveling abroad! Why? Because O2 has gone overboard with its insane data-roaming charges. For every single megabyte you download, you'll be paying £3 (about US$6) when roaming around in the EU. Leave EU borders and the charge doubles.
Today Sprint announced they would start selling the Samsung Instinct on June 20 for just $129.99 with a 2-year contract and $100 mail-in rebate. Cheaper than the 3G iPhone, you think? Wrong... In order to activate the phone, you must subscribe for one of Sprint's unlimited data plans. And while the cheapest plan will cost you $69.99 per month (with 450 minutes of talk-time), the price for the handset becomes the same as iPhone's.
Along with the iPhone 3G Apple has announced the forthcoming availability of the 2.0 firmware update.
The update will be available in the beginning of July charge free, and will feature an enhanced calculator with scientific mode, bulk email move/delete, parental controls, contact search, and the ability to save e-mail photo attachments in the iPhone's photo gallery application.
AT&T announced unlimited voice and data plans for the 3G iPhone.
We don't know if the messaging is included in the mix, but it looks like new iPhone owners will be paying more for the data used: $30 per month for simple and $45 for business users.
Regarding voice plans, we only know that the pricing will start from $39.95, but a more detailed pricelist will be available when the device actually ships.
Finally it's happened! The 3G iPhone we've all been anxiously waiting for for quite a long time was officially announced today. Without the unnecessary talk let's get down to business. The most notable features (or rather improvements) of the new handset include:
Reportedly, four teenagers were banned for life from all the Apple stores in the world just because they have downloaded a third-party racing game to their iPhones at Apple’s University Avenue store. And to think Apple was planning to start encouraging customers to download similar apps to their phones beginning next month.
Don't you guys think you're overreacting?
Nevertheless, the company's officials deny the fact of any bans from their side, but are short on details.
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