The name reminds me of the Porsche Boxter S or the Aston Martin DBS. Not sure if that was what they were going for. Anyway the new phone was announced on 8th June at WWDC.
Details are here
The main points:
- 16GM and 32GB versions will cost US$199 and $299 respectively. Old iPhone 3G will now be US$99.
- Faster than the 3G version due to more RAM etc
- Better camera (3 Megapix – which is all you need) and it takes video (which is big. More significant than people think it will be due to the ease of taking and uploading video – we will see a big increase in UGC activity. It’s the key reason for me buying it).
SUMMARY
Apart from that, the 3G iPhone with 3.0 software does pretty much the same things that the iPhone 3GS does, but a little slower and with not as good a camera.
So the choice is do you pay $100 extra for a good camera and for it to be faster (and don’t forget bragging rights for having it early). I would pay the extra for the extra camera, but if you don’t take and upload alot of video, I would go for the 3G at $99.
