Completely agree with first poster - I do not think it is in any way guaraenteed that Apple will announce or ever release a 3g iphone. They may simply tell people (in other words) to 'suck it up' for a few more months, then roll out a mid-cycle update in the fall in prep for holiday sales. Then, an announcement in Jan 09' of a true 2nd generation iphone to debut in summer 2009 (right in time for that massive wave of contract renewals which accompanied the original iphone) using an actually farther advanced technology, e.g. WiMax with inbuilt VOIP, cosponsored by Google, etc.
3G is last generation people. I know it's not popular to say amongst some subsets of the internetdom, but 3g is old news - it's a several years old technology tied to an even older business model (cell companies trying to control everything via proprietary networks). I fail to see why anyone with half-a-brain would be begging for this in a world of wifi (currently) and wimax (soon). Apple may very well agree ...
That said, I wouldn't be 'blown away surprised' if Apple rolled out a 3g, particularly to stimulate european sales. Again, US IS NOT 3g-friendly, despite what a few carrier woulds like you to believe. Doesn't change my ultimate opinion of a WiMax / wifi with VOIP capability iphone 2.0 in 2009.
Completely agree with first
Completely agree with first poster - I do not think it is in any way guaraenteed that Apple will announce or ever release a 3g iphone. They may simply tell people (in other words) to 'suck it up' for a few more months, then roll out a mid-cycle update in the fall in prep for holiday sales. Then, an announcement in Jan 09' of a true 2nd generation iphone to debut in summer 2009 (right in time for that massive wave of contract renewals which accompanied the original iphone) using an actually farther advanced technology, e.g. WiMax with inbuilt VOIP, cosponsored by Google, etc.
3G is last generation people. I know it's not popular to say amongst some subsets of the internetdom, but 3g is old news - it's a several years old technology tied to an even older business model (cell companies trying to control everything via proprietary networks). I fail to see why anyone with half-a-brain would be begging for this in a world of wifi (currently) and wimax (soon). Apple may very well agree ...
That said, I wouldn't be 'blown away surprised' if Apple rolled out a 3g, particularly to stimulate european sales. Again, US IS NOT 3g-friendly, despite what a few carrier woulds like you to believe. Doesn't change my ultimate opinion of a WiMax / wifi with VOIP capability iphone 2.0 in 2009.