After being launched three days ago, Apple announced the unsubsidized prices for their newest 3G item. Vodafone Italy have set a €499/€569 ($773/$881) price for the out-of-contract iPhone 3G. The first price is for the 8GB model, and the second is for the 16GB type.

If you’re from the US, don’t be surprised, as these prices are quite ordinary in Europe, where the HTC Touch Cruise, which has capabilities such as tri-band HSDPA data, WiFi, GPS and touchscreen is being sold for €549. Although it has 3G installed, some expected more from the new iPhone, believing that some old characteristics should have been changed as well. Well, everyone has the right to an opinion.

Via

It’s for real, finally. The rumors were true and Apple has announced the 3G iPhone, that has many new features and improvement, not just the 3G.

It does have new edges, an iPhone 2.0 firmware, plastic back, a SIM ejector and it should be 36% faster than Treo 720 and Nokia N95, according to Apple.

Better than GPS, it does feature A-GPS, that also grabs informations from cellular towers, it has a battery lifetime of 300 hours in standby, 10 hours of 2G talk and only 5 hours in 3G talk, 7 hours of video and about 24 hours of audio playback.

It will hit the stores as of July 11th in the US and 21 other countries and in the next few months it should be available in over 70 countries. If you are excited about it, you can pre-order it for $199 / $299 the 8GB / 16 GB version.

Via Devicedaily Via Gizmodo

Although Apple is denying and keeps it a secret, everything is poiting toward a launch of the 3G iPhone. A recent report shows that since 19 March, Apple has received 188 ocean containers with products they have never declared before. It’s said that Apple is stockpiling 3G iPhones in order to match the demands after the 9th June announcement at the World Developers Conference in San Francisco.

As the 3G iPhone will be released on 9th June, AT&T announced their employees that they cannot take a vacation between 15th June to 12th July because of an “exciting Summer Promotional Launch”. I think this says it all and hopefully we will get our deserved 3G iPhone.

Source

Currently MacBook Air is disposing of one of the best trackpad, but Apple wants more. Reports say that Apple will upgrade the basic Multitouch and the upgrade will consist of properties like “Advanced”, touch apps, file management and navigation - you will use only two fingers to cut, copy and paste. Apple is trying to find easier ways to control your iPhone or MacBook, we don’t now. Another strange thing is the “side pinky swipe” which seems to be a control panel. I don’t know if anybody can predict what Apple is going to do, but there is a truth in every rumor.

Source

We’ve heard a rumor that Apple is going to cut down the prices on iPhone and iPod touch with $100 and also might drop the 8GB iPod Touch. The rumors might be true, due to the lowered prices on flash drives and the potential 3G iPhone release. So, after the price decrease on iPhone, you will only have to pay $399 for the 16GB iPhone, $299 for the 16GB iPod Touch and $399 for the 32GB one. If the flash prices continue to decrease that fast we might also get cheaper iPod Nanos.

DeviceDaily

We already knew about the friendship between Apple and Starbucks, but now they’ve done a productive partnership by releasing an application together. The Quickorder allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to put orders at their local Starbucks shop. This doesn’t seem to be a billion-dollar partnership, but still it’s something useful for iPhone and iPod Touch users and good for the two companies.

Wedding Flower Boquets

According to RBC analyst Mike Abramsky, Apple is ready to release a new version of iPhone for Canada. The announce is scheduled for tomorrow at Macworld. The fruit company is said to have reached an agreement Rogers Communications Inc., the only company capable of providing the technology for iPhone. Until now, Apple sold 1.4 million devices in the U.S.

Source