Major Details on the iPhone 3GS!!! Awesome!

Posted in News by Tom Moccia. Published June 8th, 2009

picture-5Ok everyone so most of the rumors are true, the new iPhone 3GS will be available on June 19th!!!   What!!! June 19th? Yes June 19th less than 2 weeks from now.  As Twitter so rudely interrupted our Tweets from WWDC we will now fill you in on the major changes.

First all the bogus photos of a new design were just that BOGUS.  But don’t fret there is plenty under the hood to get your blood boiling.

The biggest additions in my mind are the addition of Video recording, editing and  uploading to YouTube or MobileMe on the fly or emailing it to friends.  That is just awesome.  Staying in that arena the iPhone 3GS will also implement a 3.2 MP auto focus camera. Oh and not that this is important to anybody, BETTER BATTERY LIFE!! Hallelujah!!!

Next: Voice command.  Not just voice dial but voice command in all iPhone applications.  You can use the same feature to play your songs via the iPod.  The iPhone will even tell you what’s playing now by asking “What’s playing now?” and then you can tell your iPod to play more songs like this and it will create a Genius Playlist.  AWESOME!!!

Now we all knew about the integrated digital compass but wait it goes farther.  With integrated turn by turn directions the compass will orient the map application to the direction you are traveling.  In  the current iPhone the map is always oriented due north.

Now how much will all this cool stuff cost us?  Well the iPhone 3GS will be available in white or black and 16GB or 32GB.  16Gb will be $199 and 32GB $299.  The caveat here is if you are not eligible for an upgrade and most iPhones on June 19th will not be there will be a $200 premium upgrade fee.  I believe this is to ease demand the 1st few weeks since most current 2G iPhone owners will wait the few weeks until their contracts are up.

As of today the iPhone 3G will be priced at $99.

So that’s the gist of it guys.  For more information view the iPhone 3GS guided tour on the Apple website.

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Mido says...
Wrote on June 9, 2009 @ 4:10 am

Can anybody where to buy an iPhone online ? Im not located in US i live in Egypt now !! I can’t find iPhone 3g s with only $199 on the internet. any help ?

Voodoodan says...
Wrote on June 14, 2009 @ 10:27 pm

I honestly will not be buying the new iphone, i currently have the 3g and dont want to pay 200 bucks ples add another year to my contract for a compass and a new camera with video. I was dissapointed with apple, i will finish my 3year contract and most likely by then they will have a new version.
Thanks for keeping us up to date BMAi

Eddy says...
Wrote on June 16, 2009 @ 9:50 am

hey guys

@Midos right now i have some bad news the iphone 3gs online presell is sold out here in the states. The only thing i can say is wait abit and it might show up on ebay or from other merchants.

@voodoodan

I seem alot of folks with this same dilema but i look at it this way. Since it seems you live in canada(what gave it away was the 3 year lock you have..are you in rogers comm?..I don’t live in canada but i know this is the way most phone companies work up there) The thing about the new 3GS I like is the new capabilities it will have. Also the open GL2 would allow so many great games to come to the iphone. Something 3G owners won’t be able to try.

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