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Monday, March 3, 2008

3G iPhone expected out in June

By Steve Pounds | Monday, March 3, 2008, 03:05 PM

An analyst with UBS Global Equity Research says Apple’s 3G iPhone should be out by June, according to Intomobile.com.

Apple has picked German chipmaker, Infineon, for the hardware inside the phone. This should be good news for all those suffering through web searches on the Edge Network, which can’t support fast data-transmission speeds, and that would include most every iPhone owner.

AT&T Mobility President and CEO Ralph de la Vega said last month that 95 percent of iPhone owners surf the web, including 30 percent who had never done so before owning an iPhone.

It’s hard to believe that anybody who sinks hundreds of dollars into the hottest cell phone on the market wouldn’t have done some web-surfing in his lifetime.

Now this number from de la Vega I do believe: 51 percent of iPhone owners have watched videos on YouTube.

He also said nine out of 10 rated Apple’s device better than their previous handset. That may be a function of the phone’s features. But really, how many people are going spend $400 for a phone, and say they don’t like it?

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