The latest bit of misinformation on this front comes from Robert Cringely, whose column for PBS this week is subtitled “Expect a 3G iPhone for Christmas.”
“It is my understanding,” he writes, “that Apple and AT&T are planning a fall rollout for full 3G iPhone service, with technical trials already underway in certain AT&T markets.”
Because he “can’t believe that even Steve [Jobs] would make us buy new phones” only months after the iPhone’s debut, Cringely spins an elaborate fantasy: inside the 2G iPhone, he speculates, Apple has hidden a 3G chipset and is just waiting for Christmas to turn it on. Or, as Cringely puts it:
It is very likely that a firmware upgrade will awaken the 3G within all you iPhone owners.
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