To make it short, the new iPhone 3G S is going to be faster (s for speed) and with a longer battery life and will come in 2 versions :
- 8GB (99$) – current version
- 16GB (199$) – 3GS
- 32GB (299$) – 3GS
Among the new features comes :
- improved camera lens with auto exposure, auto focus, 3MP
- video capture enabled
- video editing from within the iPhone
- compas (tells you the north, south, lattitude…)
- lansdcape keyboard for all native apps (email, messages, notes…)
- MMS feature (allowing to send text & pictures)
- Voice control to make your calls or control your iPod music launch
- feature to find your iPhone (makes a small alert)
- Number to block your iPhone in case it gets stolen
- Push now available : comes with 3 different possibilities > sound alert, messaging of app launch
- copy / paste and undo features available also within developers apps (comes within API)
- more than 1’000 new APIs are available
To be also noticed from the application side :
- more « health apps » to control your blood pressure, alert in case of patient health pb…
- major navigation app coming with TOMTOM
Figures :
- The iPhone has already 50’000 applications whilst android hardly got 5’000 and blackberry 1’000
- 2/3 of « phone browsing », 65% is done by an iPhone
- They already got more than a billion apps downloaded
- As of april 23, they had sold 40 million iPod Touch & iPhones
More here : iPhone website Follow the guided tour (15 minutes)
