{"id":237,"date":"2008-06-11T22:58:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T06:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2008-06-11T22:58:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T06:58:23","slug":"i-know-the-question-youre-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/237","title":{"rendered":"I know the question you’re asking"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re even half-way plugged into things, you’ve most likely heard that Apple announced the next version of their iPhone<\/a>. Now called the iPhone 3G, they have revised it in some pretty decent ways. They’ve made it a full “3G” phone using AT&T’s HSDPA<\/a> for downloading email and web pages at about twice the speed as the original EDGE<\/a>. They’ve also added GPS support. The one thing they’ve taken away is $200. It now costs $199 in exchange for a two year service contact commitment.<\/p>\n

Am I going to get one? Not likely. Surfing at twice the speed is nice, but considering the higher-speed data plan is $10 more per month ($40 versus the current $30) I don’t see enough value in the upgrade.<\/p>\n

There is the new 2.0 upgrade of the OS which is standard on the 3G but will also be made available for free to existing phones. They have focused quite a bit on main aspects of the OS which are enterprise support and 3rd party application support. I’m interested in that and will have it with the phone I have now when the upgrade is released next month. They haven’t listed completely what is included with the upgrade, but here are the things I either know they aren’t doing or aren’t sure:<\/p>\n