Ebony and Ivory: Apple releases the iPhone 3G

Apple debuted the newest ver­sion of the iPhone today at the Apple World­wide Devel­op­ers Con­fer­ence (WWDC). Apple 3G will be avail­able for pur­chase on July 11th, 2008. The new ver­sion will still be exclu­sive to AT&T and require a 2 year con­tract com­mit­ment to pur­chase. But, it is also 3G which makes it crazy fast and it is a whop­ping $400 less than the orig­i­nal. Below are the bullet points of the new features:

• 3rd gen­er­a­tion (3G) net­work sup­port.  Web brows­ing and email are now 2.8 times faster than the pre­vi­ous iPhone.  It’s also 36% faster than Nokia and Palm 3G phones
• Longer bat­tery life over pre­vi­ous iPhone
• Inte­grated GPS sup­port.  Google maps will now be able to pin­point your location
• Dra­mat­i­cally low­ered price.  New prices: 8GB $199 and 16GB $299
• 3rd party appli­ca­tion sup­port.  Some of the new apps are eBay, Asso­ci­ated Press, Type­Pad, Loopt
• Native Microsoft Exchange server sup­port with push email / con­tacts / cal­en­dars, auto-​discovery, and global address book
• Updated design with rounded edges now avail­able in black and white.