Two years after the original iPhone was released, Apple has finally met feature parity with most smartphones (and “normal” phones!). The original iPhone was first open for sale on June 29th, 2007, for $599 (4GB) and $699 (8GB). That version of the iPhone didn’t have cut & paste, Notes syncing, universal search and MMS support, among other things. Today, you have all that and more.
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The wait is over. If you own an Apple iPhone 3G, you can now do a software unlock for free. The iPhone Dev team has released ultrasn0w, which will allow you a more or less painless unlock experience.
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On the surface, the new iPhone 3G S looks exactly like the iPhone 3G. Even under the hood, the improvements have been subtle and evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The difference between the 3G S and the 3G is much smaller compared to the difference between the 3G and the original iPhone. So while we expected that the 3G S would sell well, we didn’t really think that it would give us any surprises.
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The Palm Pre smartphone has been chugging along since its introduction, although it’s been a bit overshadowed by the iPhone OS 3.0 and iPhone 3G S announcements. Let’s do a quick roundup of news about Palm and the Palm Pre. No, we still don’t know yet when we’ll see a GSM Palm Pre.
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