BREAKING: New smartphone apparently launching today from Apple

There’s a lot of buzz flying around the tech world today about a new smartphone being launched.  I must admit, I haven’t read much about it myself and I’m not too familiar with the company behind the product, so just bear with me.  I’m going to do my best to fill you in on this exciting new device.

A Cupertino, CA-based company called Apple is releasing what appears to be a touchscreen smartphone called the iPhone 3G S.  Priced at $199 for 16 GB and $299 for 32 GB, this newfangled iPhone device appears poised to change the smartphone world forever.  The Apple website lists some of the iPhone 3G S’s features:

• 3-megapixel autofocus camera
• Video recording
• Voice Control
• Digital compass
• Cut, Copy & Paste
• MMS
• Spotlight Search
• Landscape keyboard
• Voice Memos

While the phone is undoubtedly cool, I’m a little surprised at what Apple considers to be a big feature.  Cut, Copy & Paste?  Almost every other smartphone can do that - other phones barely even advertise this feature.  MMS?  Apparently MMS deserves to be given attention even though a $10 Nokia phone can do MMS.  Video recording?  My Motorola E815 was doing that four years ago.  But hey, at least these features are included.  It would be really embarrassing if Apple had released one or two previous phones that lacked these very basic features.  I don’t see anything about running background applications, which troubles me a little bit, but I’m sure the support is in there.

All in all, the new iPhone 3G S from Apple looks like it could very well change the smartphone game.  I’m looking forward to picking one up later today at the AT&T store and sending my friends a bunch of MMS messages as soon as I get home.

June 19th, 2009 by Shawn Farner | Posted in Uncategorized | (0)