WWDC delivers … no suprises
3G iPhone? I’m underwhelmed. Steve Jobs was going on about how much faster it is than 2G EDGE and how five hours of battery life is amazing … and while that’d probably wow an American audience, the rest of us have had phones that can beat that for years.
(At least it speaks HSDPA as well as UMTS — which is to say that in places such as, oh, Perth, it’ll work on faster networks like Telstra Next G.)
But that said, GPS that neatly integrates with Google Maps is pretty cool.
I prefer to think of it as an Actually Available iPhone!
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