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.