This morning 6/7/2010 Apple CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage to unveil the company’s latest products at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Below are some highlights:
- Popular apps are coming to iPhone platform: Netflix, Farmville, Guitar Hero
- iPad domestic & International and its app sales are promising
- iPhone 4:
- 24% thinner
- Glass front and back – Stainless steel
- Integrate antennas (Bluetooth, WiFi 801.11n , GPS + Accelerometer w/6-axes, UMTS, GSM)
- Dual microphone with noise suppression
- Quad-band HSDPA/HSUPA 72. Mpbs down and 5.8 Mbps up
- Retina Display: 4 x resolution compared to the iPhone 3GS display. The new iPhone 4 has 960 x 640 display: 327 pixels per Inch or 78% of the pixels on iPad
- A4 processor delivers 7 hours of 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music…"
- Up to 32GB of storage
- 5MP camera, w/LED Flash and 5x digital zoom, HD video recording at 720p at 30 fps, tap to focus and 1-touch sharing – Edit media app available
- Black & White colors $200 for 16GB version and $300 for 32GB version (the current 3GS will go for $100) with 2-yrs contract
- Upgrade eligibility has been moved up to 6 months for existing iPhone AT&T customers
- On sale starting June 24th (US, France, Germany, UK, Japan and 18 more countries for later) – Pre-orders start June 15
- iPhone OS has been renamed to iOS 4 (I thought IBM has iOS first):
- Multi-tasking
- Folder creation for icons on home page
- Unified email inbox, threading messages.
- Better enterprise support (Data protection, device management, multiple Exchange accounts)
- Bing search has been added
- The Gold Master Candidate delivered today and iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad) will be sold this month
- iBook is coming (already seen with iPad) – Wireless sync (book, bookmarks and notes) – iBookstore is joining iTunes
- Free upgrade available starting June 21st for iPhone, iPod Touch with limited capabilities depending on the hardware features available
- iAds: Apple interactive advertisement platform for apps – built in iOS 4- Apple sells and host the ads – revenue sharing with developers – Apple is projecting iAds will grab 48% of the mobile advertising market in the second half of 2010.
- One More Thing: FaceTime: Video calling for iPhone 4 users over WiFi only (for now) – Works on portrait & landscape
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y6EbTbW6SI[/youtube]
Video link
[Gathered from Twitter and various Live Blogs]
