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<strong>Watt</strong>’s New<br />
iPhones come to South Africa<br />
At last South Africa will join the rest of the modern world when<br />
Apple’s new 3G iPhone is launched later this month. Apple’s chief<br />
executive Steve Jobs, speaking at Apple’s Worldwide Developer<br />
Conference in San Francisco said that the new 3G iPhone would<br />
launch simultaneously in 22 countries on July 11 <strong>with</strong> 70 more<br />
countries being added between July and December.<br />
The iPhone is expected to launch in South Africa on July 20<br />
and indications are that it will cost around R2 000. Jobs said that<br />
networks throughout the world will be able to charge a maximum<br />
price of $199 (about R1 500) for the phone. However, once local<br />
duties and taxes have been added the retail price will be somewhere<br />
around R2 000.<br />
Rumour has it that there are more than 1-million iPhones destined<br />
for South Africa. The new 3G phone has built in GPs for navigation<br />
applications, comes <strong>with</strong> 8 GB of memory and will provide users<br />
<strong>with</strong> up to 300 hours of standby time, 10 hours of talk-time on 2G<br />
networks, between five and six hours of web browsing and seven hours<br />
of video playback. Audio playback will last for about 24 hours.<br />
Among other novelties in the new phone is a ‘location-aware’<br />
application for the Associated Press news service which will provide<br />
news based on where you live. Apple has also introduced a service<br />
called MobileMe which will provide a central repository so that<br />
users can keep records of e-mail, contacts and calendars which will<br />
link directly to their Mac or Windows software such as Outlook,<br />
Entourage or Windows Mail.<br />
Photographs taken <strong>with</strong> the iPhone can be deposited in the<br />
MobileMe repository and shared <strong>with</strong> friends, family or others.<br />
Millions of iPhones have already been sold around the world and<br />
millions more are expected to be sold when the phone reaches the<br />
new markets including South Africa.<br />
AMD starts shipping its new chipsets<br />
AMD is shipping its Radeon HD4000 series of video chipsets to manufacturers<br />
and stores around the world. These chipsets are said to represent a significant<br />
boost in clock speed compared <strong>with</strong> the earlier mid-range 3850 series,<br />
<strong>with</strong>out affecting heat. The core speed increases from 670 MHz to 800 MHz<br />
while still occupying a single card slot.<br />
AMD has said that the new video chipsets will retail for between $179<br />
and $219 for a standard card <strong>with</strong> just 512 MB of memory. Although the<br />
chipsets have been shipped to retailers and manufacturers, AMD has not yet<br />
officially launched its new range which was due to take place towards the<br />
end of June.<br />
AMD has come under increasing pressure to reduce the price of its lowercost<br />
cards to more effectively compete <strong>with</strong> NVIDIA’s up-coming GeForce<br />
and GTX cards expected to be released later this year. AMD says that its<br />
high-end Radeon HD4870 and 4870 X2 will be available in the third quarter<br />
of this year.<br />
July 2008
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