Earlier today we reported that at the SDK Conference for the iPhone the announcement for the major 2.0 revision would allow support for MS Exchange. We also found out that certain developers would be able to try the beta 2.0 software update and purchase the SDK for $99 which would allow them to have all the tools necessary to release their 3rd party applications. All of these applications will be available either by means of the AppInstaller or direct buys using iTunes when the iPhone is docked to the PC/Mac.
The one tidbit of information we would like to add to this news is VOIP support for the iPhone. The iPhone will be able to use VOIP software if a 3rd party developer decided to write such a program, but the VIOP calling will be limited to Wifi networks and not on EDGE. Clearly the main reason behind the limitations is that AT&T wants to suck every penny it can out of iPhone owners since it pays such a large percentage of service fees each month to Apple. The other obvious reasons is that the EDGE network would struggle if it was even capable of powering a low quality VOIP phone call. Currently on the Nokia N95 with Gizmo and a solid AT&T 3G connection VOIP calling is achievable, but before we can actually count on some solid GSM VOIP calling through AT&T we will need to see the announcement for the 3G iPhone.
As far as the 3G iPhone announcement, we are still waiting like the rest of the world. Unfortunately Apple still needs to achieve the 10 million unit goal for the iPhone 1.0 before we see the next iteration hit US or International markets. In the meantime you can add VOIP, Aol Instant Messaging, and MS Exchange Support to the list of features we will see in June of 2008. If only we had the powers of Heroes and could freeze time then go take that iPhone 2.0 out of Steve Jobs’ pocket…
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