Apple Annonces iPhone 3GS for AT&T, Faster and More Powerful

A couple of days after the Palm Pre hits the streets, Apple made a move to steal the spotlight be unveiling the next generation iPhone at WWDC. This announcement has been highly anticipated by AT&T subscribers and other AT&T users.

This exciting new touchscreen phone is called the iPhone 3GS. While it looks very similar to the iPhone 3G , this upcoming phone offers a lot of new features and capabilities.

The added S emphasizes that this new device will offer much greater speed than its predecessors. The iPhone 3GS for AT&T is expected to be more twice as fast as the current model. It will also support 7.2 Mbps HSDPA making web browsing faster.

The upgrades and updates to this new device lie largely at its new operating system. The iPhone 3.0 OS will bring MMS as well as Cut and Paste to the handset. With this new software comes an array of new apps.

Keeping up with the high-powered camera phones in the market, the iPhone 3GS sports an improved 3 megapixel camera with all the goodies like Autofocus, Autoexposure, Tap to Focus, and video capture. It's not powerful enough to challenge the monster camera phones but its good enough to appease most users.

The new iPhone 3GS also comes with some cool additional features such as voice control and the built-in digital compass. This built-in tool allows users to acquire orientation, longitude, latitude, and other useful topographical information.

Apple's new iPhone 3GS will arrive in June 19. It will be offered in two versions, a 16GB model for $199 and a 32GB model for $299. It will be available in over 80 countries around the planet.

On the surface, it appears that this new device is not much different from its predecessors. Except for the more powerful camera, no glaring changes have been made. However, this details were revealed at the announcement. perhaps, we'll learn more about this new phone in the next following weeks.

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