{"id":2872,"date":"2008-06-09T11:06:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T07:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2008-06-09T01:06:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T09:06:19","slug":"iphone-in-canada-july-11","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/iphone-in-canada-july-11","title":{"rendered":"iPhone in Canada &#8211; July 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techvibesblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/picture-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-medium wp-image-1039\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"iphone\" src=\"http:\/\/techvibesblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/picture-3-300x138.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>After months of rumors to the point where it was basically confirmed, I can finally write: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/iphone\/\">iPhone coming to Canada July 11<\/a><\/strong>. This was announced just minutes ago by Steve Jobs at the Apple Worldwide Developer&#8217;s Conference in San Francisco. At the same time, a new model was introduced, the iPhone &#8220;3G&#8221; (as in third generation cellular data speeds), with a tweaked form, GPS support, longer battery life, and new iPhone 2.0 software. All this comes with a 50% price drop to <strong>$199 for the 8GB model<\/strong>, though this is a USD$ price and Apple&#8217;s site doesn&#8217;t list a Canadian price yet. Even recently, with dollar parity, Apple prices have been slightly higher in Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/techvibesblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/picture-2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1040 aligncenter\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" title=\"rogers iphone\" src=\"http:\/\/techvibesblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/picture-2-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There has also been no word yet from Rogers on data plan prices or contractual requirements. One would think that Rogers would want to boast about carrying such a hot, new, highly desired product; maybe they&#8217;re just slow, or maybe, they want us to <em>beg<\/em> for it.<\/p>\n<p>Full transcript of the event with pictures at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/06\/09\/steve-jobs-keynote-live-from-wwdc-2008\/\">Engadget<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2008\/06\/09rogers.html\">press release<\/a> on Apple&#8217;s site giving official word that Rogers will be carrying the iPhone, but no other new information. &#8220;More details on pricing and retail availability will be available soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of rumors to the point where it was basically confirmed, I can finally write: iPhone coming to Canada July 11. This was announced just minutes ago by Steve Jobs at the Apple Worldwide Developer&#8217;s Conference in San Francisco. At the same time, a new model was introduced, the iPhone &#8220;3G&#8221; (as in third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48629,"featured_media":2874,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-2872","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/48629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/2872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}