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July 11th, 2008 is the day for iPhone 3G with its marketing tag taken from the official website: twice as fast, half the price.

TWICE AS FAST. If you're googling for more pages about this upcoming and most awaited gadget, you will find articles such as this one that will guide us to a conclusion that European and Asian market know better about mobile data access speed. The hardware will support not only 3G capability (maximum download speed 384Kbps), but apparently it will support HSDPA download speed (1.8Mbps, 3.6Mbps, 7.2Mbps, 14.4Mbps - not sure which one it will support). According to this wikipedia page, Apple iPhone 3G is an HSDPA phone. If you're a mobile phone seller in countries where the users familiar with 3G and HSDPA or 3.5G terms, and you try to sell this new iPhone as iPhone 3G, your user might thought why should I buy 3G capable only handset if there are a bunch of handsets that already support HSDPA? But if you say 'Hey, checkout this new iPhone. Yes, it supports HSDPA, and the price is reasonable', then no doubt if your buyer will pick this lovely gadget. The conclusion is: Apple should change - and they might already (planned) to change - the name to iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3.5G, iPhone HSDPA, etc.

HALF THE PRICE. Responses according to the decision to cut the price to $199 for the new 8GB iPhone varies. There might be protests similar like what happened on September 5, 2007 when Apple cut iPhone price by $200 with refund policy, from $599 to $399 for the 8GB model. You might expect that there will be other price drop of this new iPhone from $199 to $99 in October 2008. Who knows? But make sure you understand that this July 11th amazing $199 price does not include extra $240 for two years data plan. Checkout this article.

To buy or not to buy, that is the question. The decision is all yours.

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