I should be careful here…if I keep up this iPhone and Apple coverage I may get accused of being a fanboy. =^.^=

For the technical side, this ‘update’ is well over 200MB in size and is supposed to come already installed on the new 3G iPhone. So…maybe that’s another reason why you have to activate the phone at ATT/Apple instead of having it shipped directly, because they can update the firmware at the last minute. There is a slew of items that 2.0 brings for the typical home user as well as the corporate user, according to Macworld and other sources. Most exciting about the 2.0 release is the support for 3rd party apps, or at least the 3rd party apps that Apple ‘approves’ that is.

Ok, I’ll leave it at that…I know some of you are sick and tired of the iPhone news. =)

Just a quick note: AT&T has released more pricing details on their site.

http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/iPhone.jsp

Some interesting items, there is no specification of text messages, as in do you get any or not. Also, the $30 has been confirmed for the data plan…but…do we get any texting with that? Check their site and see, leave a comment if I missed it!

Nice profit margin for Apple and AT&T both…if this PC World story is legit that is. (For the record, they’re referencing market researcher iSuppli as their source.) However, given the large volume Apple probably promised the vendors, it could be feasible. Granted, AT&T has not ‘officially’ said one way or another regarding how much the actual data/text plans will be for the new 3G phone. We can all bet that they will be making their fair share, thought, there is no doubt about that. As with all things tech, only time will tell…

What do you think about this?

It’s the twitter effect, but it’s still funny =)

The AT&T site was pretty slow right after the keynote, too…they were hurting.

So what’s not to be excited about this? I’m not an Apple ‘fanboy’ but come on, $199 for 8GB of 3G speed GPS goodness that’ll last you 300 hours of standby time?!? I am ~so~ picking up one of these! For those who didn’t follow the WWDC second-by-second, here are the nerdy details:

==> July 11th <==

• iPhone 3G 8GB - $199 Global MAX price
• iPhone 3G 16GB - $299
• GPS
• ‘Thinner’ (not sure by how much?)
• Plastic back, not metal (for the better radio reception?)
• Talk time:5h @ 3G, 10h @ 2G
• Standby: 300h
• Browsing: 5h-6h
• Video: 7h
• Audio: 24h

Most of this is from http://www.macrumorslive.com/photos/ like this one:

What are you thoughts? Do you want one? =)