3G iPhone in 2008 Confirmed by AT&T
November 29th, 2007 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison |(Via TidBITS.)
There’s no real surprise in this news from Bloomberg, but in speaking to a group of stockholders and financial analysts about a 3G-capable iPhone, AT&T’s chief executive Randall Stephenson said, “You’ll have it next year.” Steve Jobs justified Apple’s failure to include faster 3G cell data capabilities in the first release of the iPhone because of the lack of 3G chips with sufficiently low power consumption. But as Glenn Fleishman wrote in “3G Cell Data iPhone Now Feasible” (2007-10-14), chipmaker Broadcom announced a Phone on a Chip that would make a 3G iPhone possible in October 2007. So although Glenn was
speculating, it’s nice to see his informed speculation confirmed.
