Although not confirmed by Apple, Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, the research firm’s iPhone expert, has said that Apple has “already placed orders for 10 million 3G iPhones” meaning the launch could be sooner rather than later.
Last year it was confirmed that a 3G version of the popular iPhone was coming, but Apple has not given an exact date as to when it is arriving. Analysts have suggested that June 2008 is the expected date, but there has been no confirmation.
In a phone interview, Dulaney also speculated that the upcoming 3G version would sport a OLED screen. Talks of an OLED screen have not been thrown around in the past but it would make sense considering the amount of energy the new phone should drain.
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Although not confirmed by Apple, Gartner analyst Ken Dulaney, the research firm’s iPhone expert, has said that Apple has “already placed orders for 10 million 3G iPhones” meaning the launch could be sooner rather than later.
Last year it was confirmed that a 3G version of the popular iPhone was coming, but Apple has not given an exact date as to when it is arriving. Analysts have suggested that June 2008 is the expected date, but there has been no confirmation.
In a phone interview, Dulaney also speculated that the upcoming 3G version would sport a OLED screen. Talks of an OLED screen have not been thrown around in the past but it would make sense considering the amount of energy the new phone should drain.
Result for: iPhone
Apple has come under criticism this week for their apparent blocking of the popular mobile browser Opera Mini from the iPhone App Store.
Opera chief Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner has said they have the alternative to Apple’s Safari browser already developed but Apple’s App Store guidelines will not let it through as it will compete directly with Safari.
When the iPhone SDK was released in March, it became clear that Apple would “specifically bars third-party interpreters that call on non-Apple frameworks and languages, which by definition would include Opera’s web rendering engine. This would have left Opera Software converting software unlikely to be released in the near term.”
The news marks at least the second time an App has been blocked for competing directly with Apple products. Last month a podcast download and playback utility called Podcaster was blocked because it apparently replicated iTunes. There is currently no Apple-based equivalent available.
