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Keynote starts at 10am (pacific)
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NEW iPhone ad here
APPLE STORE UPDATED WITH iPHONE 3G SPECS : It has the same camera (2Mpixel) but both have GPS, the 16GB version is also available in white colour.
- Keynote ends
- Jobs thanks iPhone team execs
- New ad, showing it
- July the 11th in 22 countries
- Pricing: 8GB model $199, 16GB is $299
- Coming really soon, we wanted 25 countries, we'll be in 70
- China, Russia included too!
- Every country that has a 3G network actually will get the iPhone availability, 70 countries
- showing video on how the iPhone will invade the world country per country :)
- 6 countries today, 25 countries over the next several months
- showing GPS, track as we move (demo not relevant:))
- GPS built-in
- 300 hours of battery life (stand-time), 5h of 3G talk time, browsing 5 to 6 h, video 7h, audio 24h.
- Running other download speed tests
- Showing 3G browsing Vs EDGE: 3G is 2.8 times faster, close to Wifi, 36% faster than Nokia N95
- iPhone 3G announced: thinner in the edges, black plastic back, same display, camera, flush headphone, jack
- Everyone wants one: we need to make it more affordable
- Now: 3G, enterprise, third party, more countries
- 6 million iPhones so far (in a year)
- 90% customer satisfaction, 98% are browsing, 94M email, 90% use text, 84% using 10 of the features
- Back to the iPhone: general stuff, speaking about the first iPhone's launch...
- Jobs is back
- MobileMe replaces .Mac
- $99: 60 day Trial
- Concluding on MobileMe
- Showing more MobileMe, photo gallery integration
- Showing meetings in detail
- Showing interaction between the iPhone and MobileMe: emails immediately pushed, invites with GMaps integration, easy contact saving on the phone
- Showing iDisk's online interface
- Showing Mail application, iDisk with drag & drop support on the web-based MobileMe service
- Showing web based Mobile Me service: mail, contacts, photo gallery
- Me.com email addresses
- Phil Schiller explaining Mobile Me : storage, ActiveSync (Exchange) support, push mail, shared calendars, everything synced on the Mac iPhone and PC.
- Something Entirely new : MobileMe!
- They will be able to authorize AppStore on their iPhones, bring their own custom appz and sync them to their phones, also Ad-hoc supporting up to 100 iPhones
- Enterprises want another way to distribute appz just on their phones
- Speaking App Store: launch on early july, 62 countries will access the AppStore
- Firmware 2: $9.95 for ipod touch users
- New: Simplified Chinese input support, you draw the characters with your finger, switch on the fly
- New: Landscape calculator
- New iPhone features: contact search, Keynote, Numbers document support, Office too, including PowerPoint, bulk delete/move of mail, 8 languages
- Preserves battery life, no performance issues
- Explaining how it works: alerts system
- The wrong way to do this is background processes -> battery life issue / performance issue
- There was one feature request (by developers): background support for your applications
- Finnished with developers, thanked by Forstall
- DLE rep on stage, showing action game
- A game brought in two weeks
- Now Digital Legends Entertainment
- Now Mimvista: another medical application
- Medical app developer, shows learning app, plans to bring dozen appz (don't have the name yet:))
- MLB.com: games, scoring, live video
- "Band" Demoed now, showing instruments
- Now a music app
- $9.99 for both
- Crog Mag Rally for the iPhone, it took 3 days to make it run on the iPhone
- Enigmo for iPhone, completely touch based
- Next Pangua Software
- News content seamlessly updated on your iPhone
- Now The Associated Press
- The TypePad app is free
- TypePad blog app: showing how to type articles and publish on your blog
- Now a great mobile blogging application, TypePad
- Now Loopt, CoreLocation-based social networking application
- Showing eBay client for the iPhone: search, buy, sell
- Now eBay: eBay client
- MonkeyBall will sell $9.99 on the AppStore
- showing Monkey Ball
- Game Developer Sega speaking
- Apple invited developers today to show us what they did
- a fantastic platform here Forstall says
- Detailed XCode development demo, testing on simulator, on the iPhone (using build for the iPhone pop-up selection)
- Demo of Interface Builder
- We're making it trivial to debug, mesure and optimize code
- Talks about XCode, Interface builder, simulator...
- Cites CoreService, Cocoa Touch
- Scott Forstall talks about the APIs: same APIs as Mac OS X, same kernel
- Now the SDK, bring us good stuff Jobs says
- Video: enterprise people talk security, army rep talks security too
- Enterprise iPhone 2 video playing
- 35% of 500 biggest companies have participated to the app beta
- iPhone 2.0 enterprise : exchange support, WPA/WPA2, 802.1x, EAP, LEAP, PEAPv0, PEAPv1
- 250K iPhone developers registered, 4000 had the beta
- Snow Leopard to be previewed later
- Apple has three foots : Mac, Music and iPhone
- More than 52K attendees at WWDC 08
- The keynote has started, Jobs talks general stuff