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Today, at 10:00AM(-8:00GMT), Steve Jobs will start his keynote and unveil new products. There is not that much more time to wait. Here in San Francisco, it is very sunny, not a cloud in the sky, and about 65ºF. Even before the keynote, we know he is going to mention something about the iPhone:

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Same goes for many more countries, including Taiwan and Singapore.

 

I will post updates here as I hear about them.

-Snow Leopard confirmed, but it's getting shown after lunch :(

-Super Monkey Ball available on AppStore for $9.99, it has 110 levels. We still haven't gotten to any new products yet.

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-New App: eBay, view your auctions, bid on watched auctions, and see if you've been bid out.

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-Cro-Mag Rally and Enigmo: these were my two favorite games when I was younger, and they look great!

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-Band from Moo Cow Music: it looks exactly like the app for jailbroken iPhones:

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-For AIM: Apple will maintain a persistent IP connection to the phone, where a 3rd party server can ping Apple's notification service to your device. It can push badges, sounds, and custom textual alerts (like how SMSs look).

 

-Steve sez "Isn't that fantastic? This is going to be great. In addition... we've got a few new features. The first one: contact search. Type in a few chars, instantly find who you're looking for. Second? Full iWork document support -- Pages, Numbers, and of course, Keynote. Great way to look at your iWork docs on the go. And we've completed MS Office support: Word, Excel, and now PowerPoint, too."

 

-If the App is less than 10MB, it can be downloaded over the cell network, otherwise it's WiFi.

 

-mobileme exists. "It's like Exchange for the rest of us." Change a contact? Gets pushed up to MobileMe, down to all other device. "The best part of this, it works over the air. Everything is up to date." Includes calender, mail, contacts, iDisk, photos. MobileMe replaces .Mac.

 

-"Today w'ere introducing the iPhone 3g." :D"Improved audio, it's really, really great... and it feels even better in your hand, if you can believe it." "Flush headphone jack." "Solid metal buttons, the same gorgeous 3.5-inch display, camera" Less expensive. :D "If we compare this to WiFi, we'll see 3G approaches WiFi speeds. We're also really proud that we're doing this with great battery life -- standby time is 300 hours." "Location services is going to be a really big deal on the iPhone -- you saw a bit of that here today, it's going to explode. We get location from celltowers, from WiFi, and now we get it from GPS." So that's A-GPS. "We can actually do tracking.""So great performance, great battery life. Now, one other thing that benefits from fast data is GPS -- we've built that into GPS." The crowd roars. "Browsing, 5-6 hours of high speed browsing. Video - 7 hours, audio - 24 hours."

-Black and white colors, 8gb for $199 and 16Gb for $299. July 11th.

 

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Despite it being kind of disappointing to hear there won't be any new features I still see it as a good thing for them to be laying the ground work for the next releases of OSX.

 

 

 

Wouldn't mind if Microsoft would spend 2 years working on the guts of Windows...

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Umm according to the 3g Iphone specs it says...

 

Capacity2

  • 8GB or 16GB flash drive

Does this mean the drives in these newer phones arent SSD? So plastic casing and flash drives instead of SSD making these phones cheaper?

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What happened to "One more thing..." ?????

 

One more thing is probably, that Job is still alive on stage...

 

This guy looks thinner every presentation...

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If they're gonna keep these prices here in Italy, I'm in for a brand new iPhone3G!

 

199$ with a 2-year AT&T $30/month for unlimited UMTS connectivity....

 

Might sound a lot to you guys, but here in Italy that's cheeeaaaap! :P

 

Source: Macrumors.com

 

EDIT: ... hm... is it necessary to subscribe a voice option? That would bring the price waay higher... doh!

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I think the 199$ for every country means 199USD in comparison with whatever other currency. :thumbsup_anim:

 

I'm happy the iphone is coming to Canada, I might get one!! but then again.. maybe the prices will drop or memory be increased again and I get screwed over :P

 

I'll give it 4 months :(

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no news on the macmini front! ;)

Don't fret. Apple has updated Macs before without a lot of fan fair so I'm guessing that sometime in July we'll see changes to the Mini and the Touch ;)

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Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos.

 

That means stripped PPC support most likely.

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Apple Previews Mac OS X Snow Leopard to Developers

 

SAN FRANCISCO—June 9, 2008—Apple® today previewed Mac OS® X Snow Leopard, which builds on the incredible success of OS X Leopard and is the next major version of the world’s most advanced operating system. Rather than focusing primarily on new features, Snow Leopard will enhance the performance of OS X, set a new standard for quality and lay the foundation for future OS X innovation. Snow Leopard is optimized for multi-core processors, taps into the vast computing power of graphic processing units (GPUs), enables breakthrough amounts of RAM and features a new, modern media platform with QuickTime® X. Snow Leopard includes out-of-the-box support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and is scheduled to ship in about a year.

 

“We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation for thousands more,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “In our continued effort to deliver the best user experience, we hit the pause button on new features to focus on perfecting the world’s most advanced operating system.”

 

Snow Leopard delivers unrivaled support for multi-core processors with a new technology code-named “Grand Central,” making it easy for developers to create programs that take full advantage of the power of multi-core Macs. Snow Leopard further extends support for modern hardware with Open Computing Language (OpenCL), which lets any application tap into the vast gigaflops of GPU computing power previously available only to graphics applications. OpenCL is based on the C programming language and has been proposed as an open standard. Furthering OS X’s lead in 64-bit technology, Snow Leopard raises the software limit on system memory up to a theoretical 16TB of RAM.

 

Using media technology pioneered in OS X iPhone™, Snow Leopard introduces QuickTime X, which optimizes support for modern audio and video formats resulting in extremely efficient media playback. Snow Leopard also includes Safari® with the fastest implementation of JavaScript ever, increasing performance by 53 percent, making Web 2.0 applications feel more responsive.*

 

For the first time, OS X includes native support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 in OS X applications Mail, iCal® and Address Book, making it even easier to integrate Macs into organizations of any size.

 

*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. Benchmark based on the SunSpider JavaScript Performance test on an iMac® 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, with 2GB of RAM.

 

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/06/09snowleopard.html

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I'd much rather pay $199 than £199 for a 8GB iPhone.

 

So I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to get an iPhone from the US and register it in the UK with an O2 (the iPhone carrier here) sim card without hacking it at all?

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Why are they trying to slim it down? Do I really care about 10GB or so of space? Even on a laptop cutting it by a couple gigs isn't going to make any difference. Unless it makes it boot faster or something.

 

 

And it seems they've already got the size figured out for iPhone OSX and Apple TV OSX.

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What happened to "One more thing..." ?????

 

Oh no! They're out of omt's! :blink:

 

Seriously, I'm disappointed too. Nothing really revolutionary and look at all of us talking about whether it's a service pack or not, should be priced or free etc. Any software's going to have it's bugs. What's interesting though; it's like doing one's job has now become a feature to gladly pay extra for and not something to be included the first time around. Imho software development seems to be in a flatspin today, at least from any big corp. Apple is sure doing good but could be doing even more. Well, it's green and sustainable. Re-compile and re-sell = recycle... :poster_spam:

 

Thank god for OSx86, and all of you making it possible. Apple should put OS X available to pc's, it would de-cult the Mac. It is what's going to happen eventually if everyone buys a mac anyway - it won't be a special club any longer.

 

oh, and btw, they sure responded to the iPhone not being affordable earlier. But what about the Macs, huh? $2400+ if I want to choose my own graphics hardware etc. Or $1700+ for a reasonable iMac. Wow... :unsure: guess it's all iPhone these days, bah.

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