iPhone 3G!

Wow! Was my reaction to the most happening news i heard in sometime now. Ya, Apple has come up with iPhone 3G, Twice as fast and half the price! Thats what they say at the least :) The gadget looks good. Aesthetics wise there is nothing better than this in phones available in the market now. My full marks. Also the Apple gadget again ups the expectation ante for the mobile phones of tomorrow. No doubt, they keep raising the bar and lead the way in the technology implementation front. Others jus follow what they do. Trying to catch up and we consumers keep wondering what next! My God, a string of new apps will soon be released for this gadget released now. Thanks to app store and the SDK release! Ya, jus like the iTunes music store, there is going to be an online application store! Search and pay for what app you download. Wow! everything sounds simple enough and clear enough. I must say, the GPS feature will really really help people living in the metros. Phew! a sigh of relief for those who do lot of traveling too. :)

Everything said and done now what really is point of concern here in India is, the device for now will be purely working on GSM/2G/2.5G/2.75G (whatever they wish to call!) or will we get to use this phone for next gen with the 3G network features? What remains to see is the bandwidth that an individual user would have access to? in simple terms uplink and downlink speeds :) Are our networks ready to tap the superb features of this phone? Or will it be like you are given a bicycle to travel in a expressway? bicycle being the network here .. ;)

With jus $199 as the price i think there is no need to think much about all this. Any day the iPod feature and the slew of yet to be released games would make this an interesting entertainment device. And what more would you want if you can get browsing capability on the move?(for now limited to indoors here in my place as my wireless router is jus only so much capable)