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Like you even had to ask. Yes, Johnny, the iPhone 3G will be getting looked over by the FCC.

[Thanks, Chris]

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Filed under: Handsets, ATT, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, Apple, OS X

It’s been a long, leak-filled wait, but Apple finally took the wraps off its 3G iPhone. Thinner edges, full plastic back, flush headphone jack, and the iPhone 2.0 firmware — Apple’s taking a lot of the criticisms to heart from the first time around. Obviously 3G is at the forefront, but they’re also making sure it’s available all over internationally, works with enterprises, runs 3rd celebration apps… and does it all for cheaper. Apple claims its 3G speeds trounce the competition, with pageloads 36% faster than the N95 and Treo 750 — and of course it absolutely trounces the old EDGE data. Battery life isn’t getting put out to pasture though, with 300 hours of standby, 8-10 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G speak, 7 hours of video and 24 hours of audio. GPS is also a go. Apple is using A-GPS, which supplements regular satellite GPS data with info from cellular towers. WiFi data is also worked into the mix, which should give users a pretty solid lock on where the heck they are on this planet. Unfortunately, there’s no front-facing cam, which syncs with what we were hearing, but is still a little disappointing. Apple hopes to launch in 70 countries this year. 8GB is available for $199, 16GB for $299 — and the 16GB comes in white. Both pricepoints require a contract. Apple will be hitting the 22 biggest markets, including the US, on July 11th.

Other tidbits:

• It’s a teensy bit thicker.
• A SIM ejector comes in the box, at last.
• There’s no dock included, just a USB power adapter.

Continue reading iPhone 3G is finally official, starts at $199, available July 11th

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Steve just ran through a bunch of features of iPhone 2.0, and while we saw most of them back in March, some of them were new, like being able to draw in Chinese characters. There’s also new support for iWork documents and superior Office doc support, as well as new abilities to save images from email to the photo library, and new contact search functions. There’s also finally bulk delete and edit of email / SMS, and the App Store will be making it to 62 countries, up from 22 in March.

Looking through the gallery now live on Apple’s site, there are some other changes as well: the Maps app now has a slightly different “peel back” icon, there’s a new 3G icon (obviously), and the calendar app has been redesigned, probably to work better with MobileMe.

Firmware 2.0 will hit in July free for iPhone owners (we’d state July 11, when the 3G iPhone launches, is a good bet) and the price has dropped to $9.95 for iPod touch owners — still high, but better than the $19.95 we heard in March.

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We saw an early demo of Sega’s Super Monkey Ball back at the iPhone SDK event in March, but it looks like the real thing is ready for WWDC, with some 110 stages and all four classic monkeys, including Baby. We just caught a swift run-through during the keynote, but the graphics look unbelievable compared to anything we’ve seen on a cellphone before — easily DS-quality graphics.

Also demoing games was Pangea, whose Brian Greenstone showed off Enigmo and Cro-Mag Rally, a racing game that uses the iPhone itself as the steering wheel, via the accelerometer. Again, the graphics were high-quality, and gameplay was described as “totally playable” with just a minimum of porting effort — three days for each game.

Finally, Digital Legends Entertainment demoed a God of War-type game that they’d developed in only two weeks that featured graphics somewhere between the DS and PSP. It’ll be ready sometime in September.

Pricing for all three games was set at $9.99 to start — high for a cellphone game, sure, but super competitive with other portables.

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What’s the N85, you ask? We don’t know a heck of a lot about this one, but we’re told that it features a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, and geotagging — sort of an N96 lite, perhaps. The slider features the same industrial design featured on all of Nokia’s Nseries devices as of late, but beyond that, your guess is as good as ours regarding target market, pricing, availability. Stay tuned for more as we get it!

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