Twice as Fast, Half the Price

Monday’s message is pretty simple: Apple is going for iPhone market share in a big, big way. The iPhone 3G seemingly only has two major hardware additions: 3G networking and GPS. The battery, I suspect, might be stronger (and, given the shape of the back of the iPhone 3G, perhaps a stronger but bigger battery. No front-facing camera. No video from the rear camera. Instead of building a better $400 iPhone, they worked on halving the price of last year’s phone.

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  • http://allthingsd.com/ Michael Long

    Stronger but bigger battery? Maybe. But the new phone is only 0.7mm thicker than the Mark I iPhone at it’s deepest point, and thinner at the edges.

    And I suspect that the switching the back from aluminum to plastic contributes quite a bit to part of that extra thickness.

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