The 3G iPhone was just confirmed. Starting at $199 you get the 8GB version. Available July 11.

Key Features:
Charcoal Back
Solid Metal Buttons
Same 3.5" Display
Camera
Flush Headphone Jack
Dramatically Improved Audio

3G Advantage
Showing a EDGE vs 3G comparison loading a webpage, 3G took 21 seconds. EDGE...waiting...waiting...uhh...59 seconds! Same phone, same location. 2.8X faster - and they claim loads webpages faster than Nokia N95 (33 seconds) or Treo 750 (34 seconds).

 

Battery Life
8-10 hours of talk time
5 hours 3G talk time
5-6 hours of browing
24 hours of audio battery

And GPS!

 

http://gizmodo.com/5014675/the-3g-iphone-is-official 

and now I wait until July 11

Why do I need this phone when I have a superfone called the Treo 600? It has all the state of the art technology, I can check email on it, it has a color screen and it even takes photos!

that was teh worst fucking stevenote.  so booooooring.

Yea I was refreshing the giz-blog and wondering when something was gonna happen. Im not looking forward to watching it.  

i didn't actually follow the job's speech, but the news is big

I just mentioned to Omnis that Steve Jobs has gotten so skinny that he looks like a Sims version of himself. I bet dude's popping old-school obetrols. 

Or he has cancer again.

 

I get the feeling he's phasing himself out. It scares me. I seem to notice an excess of guest presenters in recent months. Anyone else notice this?

yeah, but Jonathan Ive taking over is a pretty exciting prospect.

so in-store activation is required for the 3G phone, making the chance of getting one in NYC...zero.

Agreed... but I hate to think about an Apple post-Steve. Look what happened last time.