Apple 3G iPhone announced

Steve Jobs today announced the 3G iPhone after days & days of media frenzy, rumors & leaks. The 3G iPhone has 3G (obviously) & GPS in it. Even with the 3G, the battery times reported are really amazing for the Phone. The 3G iPhone is rated at 300 hours of standby time. 2G talk time is up to 10 hours (it's 8 hours with the first gen iPhone), while 3G talk time is 5 hours. It will be able to allow 5-6 hours of 3G browsing, 7 hours of video playback and 24 hours of audio playback.

The form-factor is mostly the same. Same 3.5-inch multi-touch screen, same button-less face, minimalist design - but with a few changes.There are going to be some incredible applications and games for the iPhone available through the AppStore - and it looks like free or $9.99 is going to be the pricing structure. At least we won't have to worry about which application is going to be cheaper than another.

And, the iPhone 3G will launch in 20 countries worldwide on July 11 for $199. Talk about affordable - there won't be any of those "it's too expensive" arguments against the iPhone 3G floating around that were seen last year with the original iPhone's launch.

Let's recap the specs a bit.
It's got Quadband support, Triband 3G support, Wifi, GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, 8GB & 16GB Flash Storage, normal headphone jack, same 3.5 inch 16 million color screen, same 2mp camera.

The new features of the 3G iPhone (apart from 3G & GPS) are :