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pple'siconiciPhone3Gmaybetheonlymobiledeviceyou'lleverneed--heck,theonlydevice, peri-od. (UntilApplecomesoutwitha4Gversion,of course.)The new iPhone is available from AT&T for $199 with atwo-year voice-data plan ($70 to $130 a month), andfrom Rogers in Canada for thesame price with a three-yearplan ($60 to $115).If you bought the originaliPhone last year, the new oneoffers significant inducementsto trade up, especially forenterprise users. Chief amongthem is broadband-speedWeb surfing, downloading,and e-mail on the mobile net-work -- the new iPhone workson UMTS/HSDPA networks aswell as GSM/EDGE, includingoverseas.If you somehow missediPhone mania last year, but you're now in the marketfor an electronic Swiss army knife, this is the deluxemodel without a deluxe price.It does everything, and most of it well: voice, e-mail(including push), 3G, and Wi-Fi Web surfing, music,video, 2-megapixel still and video photography, GPSnavigation. And it features a brilliantly designed touch-screen user interface, the hands-down coolest of anysmart phone we've seen.
What else is new in the iPhone 3G?
Improved sound quality,Apple says. Support forMicrosoft ExchangeActiveSync, which meanssecure push e-mail, contacts,and calendars for enterpriseusers. There's also a built-invirtual private network withstrong two-factor authentica-tion. And access to scoresof new applications writtenby third-party developers,and available at the wildlypopular new AppleAppStore.
What’s
not
to like aboutthe new iPhone?
In truth, very little, although the non-corporate e-mailexperience -- at least in our testing of a Rogers iPhone-- isn't a patch on BlackBerry. The onboard navigation
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iPhone 3G: What’s Not to Like?
By Gerry BlackwellIf you somehow missed iPhone mania last year, but you're now in the market foran electronic Swiss army knife, this is the deluxe model without a deluxe price.
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