Superfast “3G” iPhone

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson confirmed what everybody has been speculated, a 3G iPhone will be released “next year”. The assumption would have to be in Q1, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet.

So why do you care about “3G”? well, it’s all about speed. Downloading web pages on the iPhone over the current “2G” AT&T Edge network is about 1/10th of the speed of “3G”, so the difference is big; really big.

The only issue is going to be battery life — 3G sucks serious power. My other phone (an HTC Kaiser) is 3G and under heavy browsing will run down in a few hours. Let’s see if the wizs at Apple can do better.