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3G iPhone 2.0 revealed!

By Alex Lewis on Sun, 06/08/08 - 11:14pm.

 Update: As expected, Apple revealed the new iPhone 2.0 today. Here is the official Apple promotion shot:

Also of note is they will ship with the new 2.0 software including Exchange ActiveSync, Cisco VPN and A-GPS. The App Store will be available next month. Finally, Apple & AT&T also confirmed the US $199 price point with a 2-year commitment.

CrunchGear has what appears to be the first legit photos on the web for the new 3G iPhone. From the TechGear description and looking at the pictures it's definitely thinner than the original iPhone and looks reminiscent of the MacBook Air. Gotta love the multiple colors and the "red" campaign branding. Looks like the "jesus phone" got an exterior upgrade to match it's new internals. Still unknown is if the iPhone will ship with the new 2.0 software. Originally it was announced that the 3G iPhone would ship with the new software but the word on the street is that unsolved bugs will push it out a month or more and be a field upgrade.

While on the topic of the 2.0 software, I've been excited about some of the new features. From a consumer level, probably the most exciting is Apple finally officially opening the iPhone up to third party developers. Electronic Arts jumped in with both feet anouncing Spore on the iPhone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5xA8-XvjNk Second place might belong the the SlingPlayer for iPhone. No release date but supposedly it's already in private beta.
On the Enterprise side, the iPhone will have the full Microsoft ActiveSync package include push email, remote wipe and administrator pushed policies. This makes the iPhone a business tool, not just a toy. Also included will be a Cisco VPN client. I'm not sure why the buzz on phone vpn clients. I can't imagine using my phone for anything corporate beyond email or IM. ComputerWorld posted an iPhone 2.0 FAQ with a lot of great information.

Go to the Microsoft Subnet home page for more news, blogs, podcasts.

The buzz on phone VPN

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The buzz on phone VPN clients is this: many companies with wireless networks use VPN as a security layer. WEP is super-easy to get around and WPA isn't that much more difficult. Short of MAC address restrictions (which can be spoofed, though this is harder) that make for a cumbersome security mechanism, VPN authentication is the best way to protect the subnet on a wireless network.

So, that's at least one good reason. My company protects its wireless network with cisco ipsec, so I'm thrilled that iPhone 2.0 has support for it. No more EDGE at work...of course, the 3G phone should solve that problem too.

iPhone

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With all eyes in the mobile world on Apple this week I thought I thought the time was right to talk about what we believe is the best way to conduct a mobile web search on a device like the iPhone…a device with a rich, full screen, touchscreen only. Namely: Voice search. You say it, our speech recognition (running on a server) produces text, the text automatically dumps into the search engine that’s the subscriber’s choice (Google, AOL, MSN, etc.), the search engine returns results. Or via voice, search for any content from your local iTunes playlists.

Using the Apple developer kit, we’ve been hard at work developing impressive technology that make the iPhones capabilities even more powerful. Voice search. Song search and selection. At the touch of a button and simply by saying the word. Over the next few days – as the excitement mounts for the WWDC – we’ll be sharing more and more details here on our blog. For now though, I think all of us should sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

Of course, we believe the most powerful use of speech would be running on the iPhone itself (vs a remote server) and made available to the developer community via iPhone’s SDK APIs.

Lame

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I like how the real 3G iPhone was revealed today, it looks absolutely nothing like this one, and yet this is the only mention of a 3G iPhone on the entire front of Network World. Great job being on top of things.

I can't believe apple fixed

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I can't believe apple fixed most of its weekness of this 3G iphone.. it's going to be the best phone ever.

check out http://www.3G-iPhones.org

I can't believe apple fixed

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I can't believe apple fixed most of its weekness of this 3G iphone.. it's going to be the best phone ever.

check out http://www.3G-iPhones.org

I can't believe apple fixed

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I can't believe apple fixed most of its weekness of this 3G iphone.. it's going to be the best phone ever.

check out http://www.3G-iPhones.org

3g iphone for $300usd

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