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I was one of a couple thousand geeks privileged enough to catch the old, but still spry Steve Jobs bring Apple fanatics to church. Here at San Francisco's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, the tiny evangelist teased us with two hours of talk about development platforms, sales numbers, blah, blah and blah.
As always, he saved the best for last: a new iPhone! 3G speed! $199!
Hitting stores July 11, the iPhone 3G will run $199 for 8GB, $299 for 16 GB. It is a bit thinner than your fat original iPhone and has smoother, less obtrusive volume buttons. The cold silver metal casing is now a shiny plastic black. Pony up for the 16 GB and you can choose between black or the classic Mac white.
The big difference, however, is on the inside. Jobs had a nifty live presentation of the 3G iPhone network compared to your slow, sloppy iPhone (which uses AT&T's slow, sloppy EDGE network). The 3G iPhone downloads websites and email attachments about three times as fast.
If you're not keen on upgrading, Apple also unveiled iPhone software 2.0, which will give all iPhones full Microsoft Office support to view your Powerpoint presentations, international language support for your Chinese and Turkish friends, and lots of other small goodies.
The only problem? We have to wait for a month to get any of this. At least it will be cheap.
-- DAMON BROWN
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