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I hope it comes faster than the Cingular, now AT&T Treo 750 Windows Mobile 6 upgrade (check the date of this post), which still isn’t here. The folks that ask me day to day about my thoughts on the iPhone normally end up telling me that the lack of 3g is what is keeping them with their Windows Mobile Phone. One guy today actually mentioned this to me at lunch. He is using a heavily modded 8525 and says that he can’t live without 3g.

Well in an article on Bloomberg.com, they talk with AT&T and get confirmation that the iPhone will get 3g sometime next year. Steve Laser posted something on this last week, but the rumor is made more official now…

Apple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said.

The device will operate on third-generation wireless networks, Stephenson said today at a meeting of the Churchill Club in Santa Clara, California. San Antonio-based AT&T is the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in the U.S.

“You’ll have it next year,” Stephenson said in response to a question about when the 3G iPhone would debut. He said he didn’t know how much more the new version will cost than the existing model, which sells for $399. Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs “will dictate what the price of the phone is,” he said.

If you remember correctly, one of the reasons why Apple opted for EDGE was the battery life, this Bloomberg article covers that too…

“We’ve got to see the battery lives for 3G get back up into the five-plus-hour range,” he said. “Hopefully we’ll see that late next year.”

Source: Bloomberg

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