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people have been posting about the new Apple 3G iPhone coming out in 60 days.  You can see this at:

• 3G iPhone coming within 60 days
• Walt Mossberg says 3G iPhone coming within 60 days
• 3G iPhone 60 Days away says Walt Mossberg
• Walt Says 3G iPhone Coming in 60 Days
• Walt Mossberg loves AppleTV…and 3G iPhone in 2 months!
• Walt Mossberg says there’s a 3G iPhone coming. In 60 days.

So we got the message.  It’s coming.  But what does a 3G iPhone really mean?  According to Wiki, it is:

3G is the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology, superseding 2G. It is based on the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) family of standards under the International Mobile Telecommunications programme, "IMT-2000"…

3G technologies enable network operators to offer users a wider range of more advanced services while achieving greater network capacity through improved spectral efficiency. Services include wide-area wireless voice telephony and broadband wireless data, all in a mobile environment. Typically, they provide service at 5-10 Mb per second.

Unlike IEEE 802.11 networks, 3G networks are wide area cellular telephone networks which evolved to incorporate high-speed internet access and video telephony. IEEE 802.11 (common names Wi-Fi or WLAN) networks are short range, high-bandwidth networks primarily developed for data….."…MORE…

How Cell Phones work from HowStuffWorks says:

….3G technology is the latest in mobile communications. 3G stands for "third generation" — this makes analog cellular technology generation one and digital/PCS generation two. 3G technology is intended for the true multimedia cell phone — typically called smartphones — and features increased bandwidth and transfer rates to accommodate Web-based applications and phone-based audio and video files…..

3G comprises several cellular access technologies. The three most common ones as of 2005 are:

• CDMA2000 - based on 2G Code Division Multiple Access (see Cellular Access Technologies)
• WCDMA (UMTS) - Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
• TD-SCDMA - Time-division Synchronous Code-division Multiple Access

3G networks have potential transfer speeds of up to 3 Mbps (about 15 seconds to download a 3-minute MP3 song). For comparison, the fastest 2G phones can achieve up to 144Kbps (about 8 minutes to download a 3-minute song). 3G’s high data rates are ideal for downloading information from the Internet and sending and receiving large, multimedia files. 3G phones are like mini-laptops and can accommodate broadband applications like video conferencing, receiving streaming video from the Web, sending and receiving faxes and instantly downloading e-mail messages with attachments ….MORE….

The "mini-laptop" is what crystalized it for me.  So I’d wonder right off the bat….why doesn’t the iPhone already have this??  Fortune answered this back in 2007 - to wit:

….For Apple (AAPL), the transition from the 2G (or 2.5G) iPhone to the 3G iPhone is a tricky one.

We know the new model is coming sometime in 2008. Steve Jobs hinted as much in September, and AT&T’s (T) Randall Stephenson confirmed it last month.

The problem for Apple is that it must get formal FCC approval before it releases any new radio-based device. Such applications are public documents, which makes it hard to keep a new cellphone secret for very long.

Jobs unveiled the original iPhone six months before it shipped. If he announces the 3G iPhone ahead of time, he risks choking off sales of the 2G model.

What to do?…MORE….

‘Way interesting indeed!  I wonder how it will all play out.

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

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ps - here are some smart phones that are already 3g-ready:

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