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@ WWDC: 3G iPhone Available July 11 For $199; 6 Million Sold First Year

By Tricia Duryee - Mon 09 Jun 2008 12:08 PM PST

imageFrom our sister site mocoNews.net: Here’s the big news: the 8-Gig 3G iPhone will be $199 around the world. It launches in 22 countries on July 11. The 16-Gig will be $299.

“6 million iPhones sold this year, and we are pretty thrilled with this, and we did figure out what our next challenges are. The next mountain we have to climb to go to the next level—3G...."It’s beautiful. It’s thinner at the edges. Full plastic back, solid metal buttons, 3.5 inch display, camera, flush headphone jack. “It’s really great, and it feels even better in your hand,” Jobs said. 3G is approaching Wi-Fi speeds. 3G features include enterprise support, standby time of 300 hours, 2G talk time of 8-10 hours and 3G talk time of 5 hours (while others are at 3.5 hours). Much more at mocoNews.net

Apple also announced the upcoming launch of MobileMe, which is described as “Exchange for the rest of us.” The Web app allows you to get push calendar, contacts and email on all of your devices and PCs. “It will push on the fly to keep things up to date all the time.” If it gets sent to Mobileme, it updates phones and computers, so that they all have the same email.” If a new contact is added on the phone, it gets pushed up to mobileme and then up to all computers and devices. “Wherever I am, everything is up to date. It works over the air wirelessly. If something changes, it gets pushed to the iPhone and I see it immediately. It’s perfect for my iPhone.” MobileMe will cost $99 a year for 20 gigabytes of online storage. There will be a free 60-day trial. It will be available along with 2.0 software in early July.

The rest of our coverage is on our Apple Worldwide Developers Conference channel on MocoNews.

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Tags: wwdc, iphone,


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