Not many had the chance to legally touch the new iPhone 3G, besides those that broke the NDA agreement are Laptop Mag and Engadget, and here’s some of their notes:

• They got 215kBps on a data speed test on 3G network.
• You can enable/disable 3G, but there is no dual mode.
• Geotagging is built-in.
• The display looks the same.
• It has a thicker feeling due to the round back.
• The plastic doesn’t feel cheap, but it’s solid, although it will attract many fingerprints.
• The power adaptor, or charger, is a small square.
• There is a separately-sold docking station.
• No mention of clipboard features or MMS.
• Original Apple iPhone are discontinued.

Source: Laptop via Engadget

If you didn’t read the press release, the iPhone 3G will be available in 22 countries by July 11. That should mean retailing, and not just shipping. The countries are: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the US.

The main changes on this new iPhone are the inclusion of a proximity sensor, a black and white colour, some software changes, Triband HSDPA, and A-GPS. Apple iPhone 3G’s full specifications after the jump.

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Apple just released their much-hyped iPhone 3G at the WWDC, after a 75min long keynote. Here is the press release, but before a quote from Steve Jobs. Full specifications will follow in a post.

“Just one year after launching the iPhone, we’re launching the new iPhone 3G that is twice as fast at half the price,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “ iPhone 3G supports Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync right out of the box, runs the incredible third party apps created with the iPhone SDK, and will be available in more than 70 countries around the world this year.”

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Honestly some people can come with real nonsense…no wait, it’s called imagination. Well whatever you call it, the guys at iPhone Canada News (they got their own iPhone Canada TV channel as well) came up with this joke, where the now-found-but-for-long-never-spotted tribe somewhere in Amazon were holding the iPhone 3G.

Maybe they were kept in an Apple concentration camp, and these ones managed to run away, that also with an Apple iPhone 3G…

Apple does come out with innovations and has quite a creative team of developers and designers. Since mobile phones came out there have been needs of better batteries, while some call for fuel cells, others might prefer solar-cells, such as Apple, atleast that’s what’s on their latest patent.

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