When do you thing the next generation iPhone will be coming out, and what changes do you expect it to have?
Expected changes? I don’t know. Hoped-for changes? Longer battery life available, faster cellular connection available, quad-core processor, more system memory, more flash storage, video cam, higher-resolution still cam, second cam by the screen for videoconferencing… The beta of the system software 3 has been released to developers, and apparently it has all sorts of interesting things.
Disengagement from AT&T, that’s what I want to see. The practice should be illegal. All available cell phones should be allowed on any carriers network.
Last week, ATT announced that it’s going to sell the iPhone without the two-year contract, at a cost of $599 or $699 (depending on the amount of memory), compared to $199 or $299 with the contract.
It should be the consumers choice to accept a subsidized and locked phone or an unsubsidized and unlocked phone. I wouldn’t go quite so far as to say that locking a phone to a carrier should be illegal, but it should be required to offer an unlocked version.
And they should be clearer about when networks use different standards. Here the GSM and the CDMA networks both advertise themselves as “3G”. Then people get pissed when they learn that the iPhone, for example, isn’t available on Bell. Because Bell is CDMA and there is no CDMA version of the iPhone.
Why? No one forced Apple and AT&T to work together, and no one is forcing the consumer to get an Iphone. The other wireless companies offer phones with similar capabilities. To me it is no different than being upset that I have to buy Apple hardware to use Mac OS X.
Well, would you agree that Microsoft should be able to prevent internet browsers on their operating system to prevent competition with their own browser? Courts didn’t think so. Nobody was forcing anyone to get Windows at the time either.
I’m sure there are holes in my analogy, feel free to pick it apart.
I know. But will the 3g data option work should I get an unlocked iPhone and use it on T-Mobile? If not, the deal is no good, and leaves me with only one option, AT&T.
Variety and a plethora of options is the hole in your analogy. If AT&T was one of only two (with a few very small other) options in town (and the biggest by a large margin), and said, “either you get an iphone or you get nothing”, then yes, your analogy would work.
T-Mobile has their own data option, I would imagine. If they don’t have a 3G infrastructure, and you desire 3G speeds, why would you go with T-Mobile?
It seems pretty likely the next gen iphone may come out around June. There are rumors about a lot of the new features. To tell the truth, since jailbreaking mine, I don’t really need any of the features of the 3.0 firmware. I would like a faster processor and more storage though, so if the new iphone has that, I may upgrade.