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iPhone 3G dissected in NZ

By | July 10, 2008, 8:02am PDT

Summary: As I’ve been covering all week Luke Soules from iFixIt.com is in New Zealand and got to purchase one of the first iPhone 3Gs available at 12:01am NZT and he promptly took it apart. Some notes: The iPhone 3G cost them NZ$979 without a contract (but locked to Vodafone) Perhaps the least-touted new feature of the iPhone 3G [...]

iPhone 3G dissected in NZAs I’ve been covering all week Luke Soules from iFixIt.com is in New Zealand and got to purchase one of the first iPhone 3Gs available at 12:01am NZT and he promptly took it apart.

Some notes:

  • The iPhone 3G cost them NZ$979 without a contract (but locked to Vodafone)
  • Perhaps the least-touted new feature of the iPhone 3G is the flush headphone jack, allowing non-Apple headphones to be used without an adapter.
  • A little birdy has told me that TechOnline will be decapping the chips we can’t identify tomorrow, after the US release. They soak the chip in an acid bath to eat away the ceramic coating, then use x-rays and other fancy equipment to examine it.
  • the battery isn’t soldered
  • Samsung memory markers on the processor again. Looks like they win on the processor front again (not that we were expecting anything different).

Grok all the delicious shots here.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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the usual crap
Laraine Anne Barker 11th Jul 2008
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Apple showing EXACT same anti-competitive behavior MS was charged with
NonZealot 10th Jul 2008
Apple is a predatory monopolist

The hope is that in coming weeks some of HTCs more popular handsets such as the HTC Touch Diamond will be launched here too. There is some speculation however that Apple may have insisted Vodafone not sell the HTC Touch handsets in NZ initially since they've made a massive dent in iPhone sales globally (somewhere around 3 million so far).

So Apple is asking resellers not to sell the competition's phone because the competition is making a dent in Apple's sales.

Cue the Apple apologists who will now explain to us why it was evil, Evil, EVIL when MS offered financial incentives to OEMs who sold Windows exclusively but Apple is good when it threatens to pull to the iPhone from carriers who dare sell the competition's phones.
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Ken Fegore 11th Jul 2008
"Apple is a predatory monopolist"

Which part of 'speculation' do you not understand?

MS in contrast was convicted in court for antitrust
violations and conspiracy. Not evil as such, but felonious.

Perhaps your understanding of the word 'monopoly' in any
legally binding sense is a bit shaky, but trust me, Apple is
nowhere near being a 'monopolist' and predatory only in
the sense that they produce some great products in a very
competitive part of the market.
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the usual crap
Laraine Anne Barker 11th Jul 2008
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RE: iPhone 3G dissected in NZ
phi1365 11th Jul 2008
It rocks! I'm typing on one right now. I hope they shell out the
dough to get themselves an operational one.

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