v2 iPhone: Mid-June? Sweet.

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  1. boulder_bum

    boulder_bum Senior Member

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    So everyone expects Apple to announce the v2 iPhone at their developers conference in early June and they expect it to go on sale around June 15th because of the fact that the current supply of iPhones is drying up and the memo AT&T sent to their employees about not taking any time off for vacation mid-June to mid-July. Fortune magazine even went so far as to glean information about incoming shipments from China that indicate crates and crates of iPhones hitting the shore recently.

    The current speculation is that the new iPhone will have 3G capabilites, GPS built-in that works well with Google Maps, longer battery life and hopefully a bigger hard drive.

    Oh, and they say it's going to sell for around $200 if you sign a 2-year deal with AT&T. Sweet!!!

    I won't qualify for the $200 deal because I already have a contract with AT&T, but I just sold my HTC Windows Mobile smart phone for $200 on EBay in anticipation of getting the v2 iPhone at full retail price!

    I'm excited! I wanted a video iPod because my current one is old school music only and I am starting to buy/rent a lot of video from iTunes and knowing how cool the iPhone's web browser and Google maps applicaiton is, I may be camping outside of the Apple store to get my hands on one of these puppies the day it comes out!

    Anyone else share at least some of my enthusiasm?
     
    #1 boulder_bum, Jun 3, 2008
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    Nope. Even if the phone interested me (which it does not -- my old phone, which is only a phone, works just fine) the need to sign with AT&T would sour the deal for me.

    My mother entered into a deal with AT&T for bundled local and long-distance on her home phone, because they made her some sort of promise which they immediately broke. Since then, they refuse to give her a copy of her contract, which was only verbal because they never gave her anything in writing, and they've been charging her 3 times what they promised (verbally) to charge.
     
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    For me, i don't think the new features are worth upgrading just yet... from my 1st gen iPhone :) But i do look forward to hearing the announcement on sale date next monday (during Steve Jobs keynote address) so i can go to the store and play with one a bit.
     
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    I am looking forward to seeing all that it does, and looks like. I have read on MacRumors that they might have a cheaper one around 200 and then a GPS version with a higher price point. When the first one came out I waited 9 hours in line to be the second person to get it at the store. I have had the same one since then and it has never had any problems. Its odd to think that I have been using the same phone for almost a year. Usually I get a new phone every 4 or 5 months.
     
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    I'll be in line...once again. Might have to shed some AAPL to afford it though.
     
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    I'm certainly hoping for at least 30GB, and would prefer 60GB. The GPS would be sweet as well. The 3G technology sounds nice...but I'm not sure how much opportunity I'll have to use it.

    Something like this new iPhone would have been perfect on my recent travels...I hauled along my full size laptop which saw maybe 4 hours of use the entire time and all I needed was e-mail and a few quick web site hits. I had my iPod, which got a lot of use. I had a photo storage/viewer to download backups from my CF cards, and I had my cell phone. I could have used a GPS quite badly at at times in Scotland as I took many wrong turns. The iPhone would have supplanted all the things I brought and would have given me the mapquest/googlemaps GPS function I wanted but didn't have.

    I do plan to get one if it provides all the stuff the speculation suggests...just need that 30+GB
     
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    Rumor has it, the original iPhone users can get a v2 software upgrade that will at least provide some of the new bells and whistles.

    See, I think 3G is good and GPS is a HUGE plus, but I'm with you on this one. I really want a decent-sized hard drive more than anything else. 8 GB is barely enough for a movie or two, let alone my music collection. $ per GB has dropped so much that I'm really hoping for something more in line with iPods.
     
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    Movies, on a two-inch (?) screen??? I'd much rather listen to a radio show on my old-fashioned iPod.

    [OT Warning.] "8 GB is barely enough"!!! Back in the day, a friend of mine had a Radio Shack TRS 80 Color Computer with 8 KB of memory. He expanded it to 16 KB (an unauthorized mod that was popular at the time) and confidently announced that nobody could ever possibly make use of more than 16 KB of memory. :eek: About that time I got my Kaypro 2X with 64 KB and my friend thought it was just silly to have that much memory in a computer.
     
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    Only when it comes to VerizonWireless - AT&T here in and around Gotham City is very inferior to VZW service who i have been with since 1990.
     
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    I'm also in one of the AT&T signal pocket holes, and the Verizron signal is quite strong, if and when the iphone ca n be use on Verizron I might be intrested.
     
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    I think the iPhone may be released to other carriers, in September, but not sure how that works because I thought Apple signed an exclusive deal with ATT.

    I also heard that the high speed network will be HSDPA? and not the EVDO that is used by Verizon. Is HSDPA just as fast?
     
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    I remember back in the 90's, I had a 5 GB hard drive, and I was like, "That's 5 MILLION MB! What can I possibly do with that much space?!?".

    That was before I downloaded my music digitally and had development software that easily took up that much space.

    Now I have a 1 TB hard drive, and I'm trying to figure out when they're going to increase the size so I can rip all my DVD's.

    Anyway, I think the movies on the iPhone/iPod screen are more handy when you're, say, taking a plane trip or a family vacation and stuff like that. It might be kind of nice to be able to watch my favorite TV shows when I take a 45 minute train ride to work.
     
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    I think EVDO has a trasmission speed of 4.9 Mbps (rev. B ) while HSDPA (aka 3 1/2G) tops out at 14.4 Mbps with the possibility of 42 Mbps if phone companies wish to support such a deployment.

    Someone correct me if I'm wrong there.
     
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    So today's the big day of the announcement and Store.Apple.com is down for maintenance.

    Could they start selling these things today?
     
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    My guess is it won't be able to go ouy and buy it today. I bet you will be able to preorder it and it will ship in two weeks. AT&T's blackout days do not start till June 15th.
     
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    The page is posted...but I'm disappointed that it won't have anything larger than a 16GB version with this initial release. Guess I'll be waiting a bit longer.
    Apple - iPhone - Features
    Does have the GPS.
     
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    Looks like July 11th is the day.
    8GB $199 (black)
    16GB $299 (white)
     
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    The two questions I have with it is 1.) Can it be unlocked so when I'm overseas I can use a local SIM rather than pay AT&T $3.00/min to talk, and 2.) Will it have a useable keypad, the earlier version has key sensors so small it was nearly impossible to touch the correct one on the first try.
     
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    I think the plan is to keep it locked, but sign deals with all sorts of international carriers.

    See here:
    Apple - iPhone - Choose a Country

    The on-screen keypad is staying, though.

    Yeah, that does suck. You figure this would be a no-brainer.

    It still seems like the sweetest phone on the market, though! With 3G, better Exchange integration (sych contacts/calendar, direct push email), GPS capabilities, outstanding battery life and improved call quality, I guess I'll be getting mine July 11th!
     
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    I'm just not one to turn over a phone every year or two. When I get a new one it'll need to last me the next 3-4 years minimum. And 16GB won't do it. I'm happy to wait 6 months for that one to come out as I'm sure it will. I'm guessing they kept the memory smaller to keep the price down.
     
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