iPhone Prices Drop 33%

The 3Glogy iPhone with 16GB storage will be sold for $299 each, 8GB ones will be lowered to $199 each. Steve Jobs says that the 3G iPhone is similar to the other 2 3G phones, the Nokia N95 and Treo750. For the same attachment on an email, the download time with the 3G iPhone is 5 seconds, but it’s gonna take the previous iPhone, which supports EDGE network, 18 seconds. The standby time for the new iPhone is 300 hours, talk time has increased to 10 hours from the previous 8 hours, 5 hours under the 3G network, 5-6 hours of internet time, video play time is 7 hours, audio play time is 24 hours.

Using the official site of National Geograpic, Steve Jobs compares the speed between 3G and EDGE networks. 21 seconds for the new 3G iPhone, 59 seconds for iPhone using EDGE. Jobs says that the 3G network speed is almost the same as Wi-Fi.

Since iPhoneis already in different areas of the world, English is not the only input language for it.  With the new 3G iPhone, it even includes Chinese input despite that Mainland China is NOT one of the market.  Looks like Apple really wants a slice of that pie.

With the new GPS chips, the 3G iPhone also provides GPS locating services.

Jobs also says that the 3G iPhone will be released into the market in 22 countries and areas on July 11th, including The US, UK, Australia, India and Hong Kong (Mainland China is not included).

With the previous iPhones, there are talks around and saying the 16GB ones will be sold for $299 and 8GB ones will be lowered to $199.

Jobs also says that since June 2007, there are 6 million sets of iPhonesold around the world. Analysts believe that with the release of new 3G iPhone and the price drop of the previous models, there is no problem that the number will hit 10 million by the end of year.