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June 09, 2008
3G iPhone, Should RIM Fear It?

Posted: June 9th, 2008, 11:18pm CEST

So as I'm sure most of you know Apple today announced their 3G iPhones availablity for July 11th with the black 8GB going for $199 and 16GB for $299 in black or white, the new 3G version brings many new things to this time around (as to be expected) we have a list below that was compiled from the good folks over at iPhoneblog, outlines the good and the bad and of course the ugly. (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/06/10/hands-on-with-the-iphone-3g/) The Good 3G is faassst! 2X EDGE on quicky test, and can be Settings disabled (for those who wont spring for the extra $10? (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/06/09/att-3g-plans-no-revenue-share-no-gophone-costs-more/)). Better phone quality. Flush headphone jack for realz! Camera software improved, same megapixels, better images. Build quality, even on the all new, all plastic back, felt okay. Lighter, better fit, and design-wizardly thin. Bonus points for Jony Ive! The Bad Oh, cut and paste, where art thou? Cmon Apple! You nailed this with Mac 1.0! Chrome buttons are for realz as well! No WiFi 802.11n! This, the iPod Touch, and the MacMini are still the only Apple devices to bring down your network speed. No sign of video iChat, or video recording. No sign of A2DP stereo Bluetooth, and no comment on whether its in or coming. Dock now sold separately. Guess that $199 price point (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/06/09/iphone-3g-now-selling-for-just-199/) gotta hit us somewhere?!) The Ugly The predicted after-market for your old iPhone 1.0 (though if you manage to catch some people stuck on non-Apple signed carriers who want a jailbroken iPhone, given the new activation policies, there could just be a resurgence) Apple also announced their updated .Mac services which will now be dubbed as MobileMe What does this mean for iPhone users, in relation to RIM's services, basically it breaks down to a consumer driven BES really minus the IT Policy business, MobileMe offers (http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/)ActiveSync-like push email, calendar, and contacts syncing between your iPhone (or iPod Touch) and your Mac or PC, or via any web browser, they also have iDisk, which allows for 20GB of online storage and also incorporates your MobileMe Gallery (http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/gallery.html)for sending and sharing pics from your Mac, PC and iPhone (possible save for the still no MMS option) I guess, but this all comes at a cost of course, expect to pay out the $99 for access to this service..not bad? Now you all may be asking "Wtf is he doing featuring this on a BlackBerry website?"...the answer is simple really...for a long time now RIM has been trying to capture the consumer market with their BlackBerry smartphones, but lets face it..Apple really drove it out the park this time on the consumer level, sure theirs still some kinks to work out on Apples side (Hello, MMS..cust and paste..C'mon Steve), now am I gonna go rush out and buy an iPhone on July 11th when it hits Rogers, hell no, hopefully I'll have a sexy new Bold in my hands by that time, but it does show that RIM is going to need to step up their game even more then what even they probably expected, and the new BlackBerry Bold BETTER NEEDS to roll in at most at a $199.99 price point other wise RIM may need to unleash some of those patents they have tucked away in the FCC database otherwise the growth we have seen within RIM so far (assumingly from the consumer market) may start to slide just a lil bit I won't get into Apple's enterprise support, cause that's just a whole different bag of tricks, I'll leave that up to someone with more writing skills then I maybe Al Sacco (http://www.cio.com/author/41420/Al+Sacco) will take that one since he wrote an article (http://www.cio.com/article/380663/iPhone_._What_CIOs_Want_to_See_in_Apple_s_Next_Gen_Smartphone) on what CIO's wanna see in the iPhone 2.0. UPDATE: Seems as though Al Sacco (http://www.cio.com/author/41420/Al+Sacco) has posted a new article (http://www.cio.com/article/390163/iPhone_G_How_Apple_s_New_Smartphone_Measures_Up_to_CIO_Wants_Needs) over at CIO.com, putting in comparison to what CIO's wanted out of the 3G iPhone and what they ended up with. Thanks to iPhoneBlog (http://www.theiphoneblog.com/)for sourcing the information for me.

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