Hollah! iPhone 3G hits the US in a month
Better, faster, stronger for sure. The iPhone update that the rest us have been waiting for is set to drop in the US and in many other countries July 11. It will go live in 70 countries by the end of the year.
Besides having 3G networking, which Apple claims is twice as fast as the original iPhone and lets you use the phone worldwide easier, the new iPhones will have built-in GPS and will tax you one bill less: they’ll go for $199 for the 8 GB model and $299 for the 16 GB. Woot! In the US, the iPhone 3G will still only officially support the AT&T carrier, unless you unlock it at your own risk.
But what’s also exciting for musicians is that the iPhone 3G will rock the iPhone 2.0 software, which will be able to run applications created on the iPhone Software Development Kit that has already been downloaded 250,000+ times since its release in March. There’s not much hard data yet on what sort of music applications will be coming for iPhone 3G, but at Apple’s WWDC this week, there was a quick demo of an app called Band:
While Band is squarely aimed at casual or non-musicians, it nonetheless looks fun and hints at the kind of potential the iPhone 3G has for hosting drum machines, simple synths, sequencing, effects and other utilitarian music programs. Once the iPhone 3G launches, you’ll be able to scour Apple’s iPhone AppStore, which will also be accessible from the phone itself, for all the latest goodies.
