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iPhone 3G priced at $199 Worldwide

The WWDC 2008 has finally concluded (slept thru it last night after a boring start) and Apple has finally announced a brand new iPhone 3G with GPS. New features are expected but Steve Jobs realized they can’t sell more until they cut the price in half — so now it’s just $199 (with 2-year contract!), worldwide, including the Philippines.

Coming out this July 2008, the iPhone 3G has GPS, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, and EDGE capability.

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The new iPhone 3G will come in two colors and two storage models — black, white, 8GB and 16GB. Still with just 2MP camera and there seems to be no front panel video camera for making 3G calls.

According to the Globe Telecom press release, the Apple iPhone 3G will be available to all post-paid and pre-paid subscribers. It could be as early as July or maybe as late as September of this year.

At $199, give or take 50% on taxes and tariffs, it will end up somewhere around Php13,500 a pop. Not bad, eh? The 16GB model goes for $299.

My guess is that Globe Telecom will offer iPhone 3G Post-Paid Plan that will include unlimited Globe Visibility service for an additional Php1,500 to Php2,000 a month. It will be a sweet deal.

Again, does that come with iTunes in the Philippines? What’s definite though is that the App Store will be available in the Philippines.

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

46 Responses

  1. Avatar for Mark Chanady Mark Chanady says:

    10463-6349

  2. Avatar for angelo angelo says:

    where can i buy brand new iphone 3gs?
    no plans in globe either smart

  3. Avatar for ronald ronald says:

    may samsung Jet ako..pero ayaw magkonak sa internet bulok yata itong JET SAMSUNG…iphone killer daw e….the only thing that it kills e is “ITSELF”………………!!! THIS PHONE SUCKS…in browsing the internet di man lang makapasok kahit isang split segundo BULOOOOOOOK

  4. Avatar for Marvin Marvin says:

    san po mkabili ng iPhone ???? ASAP padala na ung ans kse buy na ko as soon as possible …

  5. Avatar for TanongPO TanongPO says:

    Saan po ba mabibili and iphone?? my Wi-FI ba ang samsong omania at mabilis???

  6. Avatar for Johnmark Johnmark says:

    how much the price now iphone 3G 8g and where i can purchase? im here now in davao.thank u

  7. Avatar for mamamamam mamamamam says:

    TO:ADELENTADO..
    para di ka maloko kuhanin mo contact no. nila ang name ng mayari.. e di pagnaloko ka.. pagtanongtanong mO.. ganun ang ginagawa namin.. hehehe..tsaka wala namang problem sa kanilang tinda..

  8. Avatar for adelantado adelantado says:

    Sobrang mapagsamantala talaga mga pinoy,ang lagi mag patong ng presyo.mga taga greenhills mga manloloko lang yan,pag kumuha ka sakanila ng phone for sure mahal na defective pa!ganyan sila sobrang manloloko at every week nagpapalit sila ng location ng pwesto nila para di mo na malalaman kung san mo binili yun ksi pag bumalik ka wla na sila sa dati nilang pwesto!!!

  9. Avatar for Monette Monette says:

    maganda talaga ang omnia..kaya lang biglang nagtaas sila ng price..imagine 3thou? parang hindi na worth para lang sa phone diba?

  10. Avatar for gian gian says:

    SAMSUNG OMNIA rocks!

    ampanget ng iphone3G kumpara don!

    pangalan lang binabayaran jan..

    pero yung features di hamak ang lamang ng samsung omnia!!!!

    wahahaha!

  11. Avatar for let let says:

    hi… can the iphone 3g jailbreak be used in the philippines?

  12. Avatar for Geogetski666 Geogetski666 says:

    yup got an samsung i900 omnia was waiting for the iphone 3g but after i saw globes plan and the price of the iphone 3g overkill damn grabe presyo nila hehe para kang tinutukan ng baril hehe and i’m loving my samsung omnia even more saved more than 10k and has more features and software availability than iphone’s overated 3g phone hehe pag ako sa inyo mag samsung omnia na kayo mas mura na 5 megapixel pa camera at mas marami features :)

  13. Avatar for katcher katcher says:

    mag-samsung omnia nalang kyo, masmaganda pa sa iphone 3G. available na ito sa samsung SM north edsa.

  14. Avatar for makulet makulet says:

    to albert..mangarap ka man ng dilat wala pa sa kalahati yang 15k mo para makabili ng iphone 3g dito sa pinas

  15. Avatar for makulet makulet says:

    you can’t just get the selling price of iphone3g in the US converted in Philippine Peso. the price offered which is $199 is with contract at At&t. just buy from globe but its too expensive. read my post and go to globe’s website all the infos are there.

  16. Avatar for junie junie says:

    for example sa US bibili nung iphone 3g magkano yung total na babayaran and may naka-unlock na ba nun sa pinas?

  17. Avatar for makulet makulet says:

    it’s already released. visit the globe telecom homepage. they got all the information there. btw, the 8g costs near P42k … too expensive.

  18. Avatar for cezk cezk says:

    WTH,just get the phone release and let’s rock ‘n roll!LOL

  19. Avatar for Pinoy Gamers Pinoy Gamers says:

    Sana magkaroon sa smart. Pero wala nga siyang camera for doing 3G calls no. Paano kaya yun?

  20. Avatar for albert albert says:

    san poba makakabili ng iphone 3g?? merun ako 15.000 allawance ko lng po yon eh… san po ba….??

  21. Avatar for Ronee Ariola Ronee Ariola says:

    Nice.. Hope this will be released ASAP

  22. Avatar for yoshee yoshee says:

    OMG…I’M GONNA WAIT FOR THAT PHONE TO BE RELEASEED HERE IN THE RP AND I’LL BUY ONE ASAP!!!! LOVELY CREATION!

  23. Avatar for Celest Celest says:

    I have a feeling that everyone would be owning and iPhone in the Philippines by the time it hits the stores. Now, that’s a downer.

  24. Avatar for Ayan Deato Ayan Deato says:

    this is great!

  25. Avatar for gian gian says:

    actually sa us they sell 199 coz may monthly na dagdag sa payment nila na 10 dollars
    dati monthly nila 60 dollars after paying 499
    pero ngayun 70 dollars na babayaran after bilhin ung iphone ng 199. so times 24 kc 24 months or two years contract. kaya may ptong na 240 dollars kaya magiging 439 dollars for 8gb and 539 for 16gb.. ganun dn

  26. Avatar for paoooo paoooo says:

    is the price in us dollars?

  27. Avatar for paoooo paoooo says:

    so. mgkano po ung price nia?.. as in 35,000 tlgah?

  28. Avatar for Tess Tess says:

    I’m interested in buying one. I live in the Phils. but i’m really concerned about the monopoly of globe telecom on the phone. I’m planning to go back to US with this phone and i want to use it with my US number too (but i’m sure they had it simlocked.) Does anybody know how to address this?

  29. Avatar for Tess Tess says:

    I’m interested in buying one. but i’m concerned about the monopoly of globe on the phone. I’m planning to go back to US with this phone and i want to use it with my US number too (but i’m sure they had it simlocked.) Does anybody know how to address this?

  30. Avatar for KristoV KristoV says:

    Time to replace my 6 year old 3310 :D

  31. Avatar for Pinoy Nurse Making Money Online Pinoy Nurse Making Money Online says:

    whoaaaa…ammura na nga ng iphone…mas affordable kumpara date :-)

  32. Avatar for sylv3rblade sylv3rblade says:

    @kuya ric
    3G is more flexible in terms of mobile devices (w/c is why it’s there instead of laptops). With this price, I just stopped considering a new Lens for my DSLR.
    Steve Jobs just made my day.

  33. Avatar for ric gomez ric gomez says:

    no, im happy with the first iphone, whats 3g lakas lang kumain ng load nyan wifi is more faster and i dont believe na below 10k lang ang price dito nyan maybe around 20k plus all the taxes ipapatong dyan.

  34. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    @Pinoy Apostolic — yeah, actually I think it’s the cheap price that really made the news for the new iPhone.

  35. Avatar for Pinoy Apostolic Pinoy Apostolic says:

    The price is so seductive… (Sorry for the shortage of words in my vocabulary :D )

  36. Avatar for Abe Olandres Abe Olandres says:

    @Erin, i think App developers can create an application that will make the iPhone 3G a hotspot so you can share net connection via Wifi.

    @ralph, Globe Telecom will exclusively sell the new iPhone 2.0

  37. Avatar for Pacute Pacute says:

    I watched the keynote of Steve Jobs about this iPhone 3G a while ago at CNN. I’m very excited to have this phone!

  38. Avatar for ralph ralph says:

    sir abe san po ako makabili nyan kung sakali
    andito na sa ph

  39. Avatar for Erin Erin says:

    nice, but can it be used as a 3G modem? if it can be, i might consider this model as my next phone (whenever my K618i croaks its final adieu).

    ciao!

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