New iPhone almost Market ready
A speech by Steve Jobs at a conference in California on Monday is being looked towards with enthusiasm. Insiders are assuming that he will introduce the next generation of the iPhone.
Apple has not confirmed this to be true, but experts are nearly certain the Apple president Steve Jobs will introduce the second generation iPhone on Monday in San Francisco. The smartphone’s new edition should then also support UMTS. Most experts also talk of the phone including the new Apple mobile phone satellite navigation system (GPS). Jobs is speaking on Monday evening at the opening of the Apple development conference WWDC.
The iPhone unleashed a powerful media storm when it was released at the end of June 2007 in the US. The US magazine “Time” voted the device as the invention of the year for 2007. Up to 14 million mobile phones have been sold in the year since its release.
Analyst Tim Bajarin from Creative Strategies believes that 80% of the new iPhone’s innovations concern software improvements and not hardware changes. “It’s Apple’s goal to help developers understand the company’s software strategy and encourage them to write programmes for the Mac and iPhone”, says Bajarin.
Competitors such as HTC, Samsung and LG have brought their own smartphones onto the market in the foreground of Apple’s release, which already support the turbo variant of UMTS (HSDPA).
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