Commentary

Apple Announces The iPhone 3GS

Apple on Monday confirmed nearly every rumor of the last few months and announced the iPhone 3GS. The 32GB model will cost $299 and the 16GB model will cost $199. More details after the jump.

Apple on Monday confirmed nearly every rumor of the last few months and announced the iPhone 3GS. The 32GB model will cost $299 and the 16GB model will cost $199. More details after the jump.The iPhone 3GS. Not the best name ever. Here are the new specs:

32GB and 16GB.


More Mobility Insights

White Papers

More >>

Reports

More >>

Webcasts

More >>

3 megapixel camera with autofocus and video capture (VGA at 30 frames per second).

New digital compass.

Touch-to-focus feature.

Minor ability to edit video on the device.

7.2Mbps HSDPA 3G radio.

Ability to share video via MMS or email.

Same body and enclosure as the current model.

Available June 19 (just a week and a half from now).

This is all good stuff. Not a huge leap forward, but combined with iPhone OS 3.0 features, it is a major new threat in the smartphone market.

The price points combined with the new features and close availability will put some serious hurt on Palm's newly-available Pre. Keep in mind, those are subsidized prices for "new and qualified" customers.

What's disappointing is some of the support from AT&T. AT&T won't be able to support the MMS capabilities until "later this summer". Also, AT&T was not included on a screenshot of carriers that will support data tethering. That's disappointing.

In all, though, the iPhone 3GS is a powerful new entrant in the smartphone segment. Other phones still beat it on a feature-for-feature rundown, but the inclusion of the Apps Store and ridiculous number of applications for the device make it another hit for Apple.


Related Reading




Currently we allow the following HTML tags in comments:

Single tags

These tags can be used alone and don't need an ending tag.

<br> Defines a single line break

<hr> Defines a horizontal line

Matching tags

These require an ending tag - e.g. <i>italic text</i>

<a> Defines an anchor

<b> Defines bold text

<big> Defines big text

<blockquote> Defines a long quotation

<caption> Defines a table caption

<cite> Defines a citation

<code> Defines computer code text

<em> Defines emphasized text

<fieldset> Defines a border around elements in a form

<h1> This is heading 1

<h2> This is heading 2

<h3> This is heading 3

<h4> This is heading 4

<h5> This is heading 5

<h6> This is heading 6

<i> Defines italic text

<p> Defines a paragraph

<pre> Defines preformatted text

<q> Defines a short quotation

<samp> Defines sample computer code text

<small> Defines small text

<span> Defines a section in a document

<s> Defines strikethrough text

<strike> Defines strikethrough text

<strong> Defines strong text

<sub> Defines subscripted text

<sup> Defines superscripted text

<u> Defines underlined text

InformationWeek encourages readers to engage in spirited, healthy debate, including taking us to task. However, InformationWeek moderates all comments posted to our site, and reserves the right to modify or remove any content that it determines to be derogatory, offensive, inflammatory, vulgar, irrelevant/off-topic, racist or obvious marketing/SPAM. InformationWeek further reserves the right to disable the profile of any commenter participating in said activities.

Disqus Tips To upload an avatar photo, first complete your Disqus profile. | View the list of supported HTML tags you can use to style comments. | Please read our commenting policy.
T-Shirt Giveaway T-Shirt Giveaway: Each week we're selecting one great comment from our readers. The author of the comment will receive an InformaitonWeek Community t-shirt. So get posting!
Subscribe to RSS

Resource Links