IPhone 3G the Impressive New Product

The iPhone 3G will be the "first in a wave of impressive new products" Apple wrote analyst Richard Gardner and Citi Yeechang Lee. They also expect an update of Mac and iPod portable lines. Apple's conference is scheduled for June 9-13 in San Francisco.

Shaw Wuwrote , an analyst at American Technology Research, in a research report. 3G iPhone release in early June, the 2.5G model could have a "minor cabinet of change" and a decline in prices in U.S. dollars between 299 and 349 dollars, compared with the current $ 399. Gardner wrote at the time, these forecasts are consistent with a prediction from February Gardner led the 3G iPhones will be announced by semester. The release of 3G iPhone Apple will help meet its target of shipping 10 million iPhones in 2008.
Apple believes it will sell 10 million iPhones this year, officials said during a conference call on Wednesday to discuss the company's second quarter earnings.

When asked about the possible release of a 3G iPhone, Apple chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer declined comment. Apple has new products in the pipeline that the company is excited about, Oppenheimer said.

Apple sold more iPhones than expected during the quarter and inventories iPhone are not sufficient to meet the strong demand, the company said. Apple acknowledged that the iPhone were low global inventories in the U.S. and Europe, which in the past has led to speculation that Apple is reducing supplies current iPhone to prepare the release of 3G iPhone.

The iPhone shortage is compatible with Apple "tendency to reduce inventories before an update," Wu wrote in his note. Predicting transport unit of about 11 million iPhones in 2008, Wu said that the adoption iPhone could be driven by accelerating the iPhone 2.0 software, which was released in March as a beta version and will be delivered to users iPhone in late June.

The iPhone 2.0 software provides enterprise applications iPhones, including push e-mail through the support of Microsoft Exchange mail server. It also includes an SDK (software development kit) for developers to write applications iPhone.

Native Exchange support in the iPhone could boost his approval, said Wu. The iPhone SDK must deliver many third-party applications for iPhone and iPod Touch later this year, Citi analysts wrote. The SDK has already been downloaded 200000 times and used a third of Fortune 500 companies to develop applications for the iPhone, according to Apple.

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Samsung 3G Instinct

At April Fooling around, Samsung has come out with the Samsung 3G Instinct.Apple teamed up with AT&T, LG with Verizon and now Samsung has chosen to launch the Instinct with Sprint.

Measuring 4.6" by 2.2" by 0.49", the Instinct is a tad narrower but a bit thicker than the iPhone, and it's also a bit lighter, weighing in at 4.4 ounces.

The Instinct's sleek, animated touch interface looks promising, if still a bit rough-and-ready. The unit I tried was still in the testing stage, so I'll hold off on direct iPhone comparisons until I've seen a final device.

Still, a lot of the UI innovations that I love on the iPhone are right here. Navigating on the touchscreen was a pleasure, and I liked the roulette wheel-like scrolling through long lists of items.

Another ace up the Instinct's sleeve is its access to Sprint's 3G "EV-DO Rev. A" data network, which means speedy Web surfing, full-track downloads from the Sprint Music Store (which got a badly needed makeover for the Instinct), video clips from Sprint TV, and the ability to tether the phone to your laptop for on-the-road Net access.


Rounding out the Instinct's features are microSD memory expansion (up to 8GB), a 2MP camera, stereo Bluetooth, and a media manager for sideloading music and videos.

Good stuff, although I should point out that the Instinct's Web browser (or at least the version I saw) looked pretty clunky compared to the iPhone's, and the Instinct's POP/IMAP/Outlook Web access messaging won't be able to match the iPhone's upcoming support for Microsoft Exchange servers. There's also the iPhone's potential as a software platform to consider, now that the iPhone SDK is out in the wild.

And of course, by the time the Instinct arrives in Sprint stores (sometime in mid-June), we may well have a new 3G iPhone on our hands.

No definitive word on pricing for the Instinct quite yet, although I'm told it could be in the $200-250 range.

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