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FCC Approves iPhone

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hitting-the-airwaves dept.

An anonymous reader alerted us that the iPhone is one step closer to hitting shelves. "The Federal Communications Commission approved Apple Inc.'s iPhone, clearing the way for the combined phone and music player to hit the shelves. Apple expects to begin selling the phones in late June. Some of the FCC documents confirm a few features of the phone, including it will have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi and will operate in the 1900MHz and 850MHz frequency bands. The phone uses GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology and the low-speed GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) wireless data standard."

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  1. Apple will still need lots of luck by postbigbang · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Cute phone, 2.5G speed, no CDMA, AT&T as a captive carrier (and let's see how much music downloads will cost-- and the GPRS airtime unless WiFi is used). They enter a mature market (not the nearly virgin MP3 player market) with lots of solid competition from Korea, Inc, Scandinavia, Inc., and Motorola. It'll be very interesting to see if the Apple cache' can give it market share in a truly hot market.

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  2. Re:FINALLY. by Morky · · Score: 0, Redundant

    He doesn't need a rubber. His cock is made of solid brushed aluminum.