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Will There Be A 3G Apple iPhone This June?

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It can be concluded that the release of an Apple iPhone 3G in June is one of the most widely spread secret of the IT world. This is confirmed by the hardware specifications for VodaPhone in italy.

So what does this 3G mean and why wasn't the Apple iPhone a 3G in the first place?

3G means "3rd Generation", and can use one of two competing cellular phone data protocols, which allows speeds that are about half what a DSL line gives for downloads, and very nearly equal for uploads. Rampant speculation exists as to whether or not the Apple iPhone 3G will support the so-called 3.5 generation protocol, HSDPA.

So where does all this speculation come from. Well, it is based on a lot of European information, HSDPA is the dominant standard there. VodaPhone and StarOn use HSDPA networks. Since April however, press releases announced a 3G Apple iPhone on the Internet. Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal stated, "A 3G Apple iPhone is guaranteed to happen in the next three months" in a round robin press conference that occured back in April.

What one should be concerned about is this: The industrial design secrets are kept close to Apple; however we do know that this design will be slimmer, and of course,the Apple iPhone 3G will make data access much quicker.

But where's Apple's vaunted secrecy? When the iPhone launched last year, all the journalists had to sign non-disclosure agreements before they could see the hardware. If Mossberg can talk about 3G connectivity on the Apple iPhone, what new tricks does Apple have that he's not allowed to talk about?

Speculation on that has ranged from the 3G Apple iPhone having built in GPS capabilities, to new software from the Software Development Kit released last February, to graphic acceleration. (Apple has publicly released announcements about integrating with Microsoft Exchange-driven "push" email, the major competitive advantage that Research In Motion's Blackberry has.)

It's already been announced that there will be an 8MB and 16MB iPhone released this summer - some hardware connoisseurs, noting the success of the MacBook Air, that this may be a red herring, and the amount of Flash RAM may be higher in the 3G Apple iPhone.

One thing that likely isn't going to change, given the thinner form factor, is battery life. That's something of a let down for the Apple iPhone devotees; the 3G Apple iPhone is thinner and has a more powerful radio, which will prevent an expansion of the battery capacity in the first case, and consume more juice in the second.

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