As usual, FCC giving you for the first hand mobile device news, including the latest Apple iPhone 3G. The approval info is available today, though you are not getting access to the user manual and device photo document yet for now due the the Confidentiality Request.
Check out all the Apple iPhone 3G coverage here
http://www.slashphone.com/tags/3g-iphone
Here are finally some leaked photos of the Nokia 7510 SuperNova fashion phone. Suppose to be looking fashion, I doubt anyone will grap this clamshell phone which simply looks flashy like RAZR keypad. Hopefully this is due to the photo quality..
Last week, Nokia has listed the Nokia 7610 Supernova and Nokia 7510 Supernova phone in their phone list. There were a few Nokia 7610 slider phone pictures available, and now the Nokia 7510 clamshell phone.
The upcoming Nokia 7510 is one of the first model in the new SuperNova fashion phone from Nokia. It support GSM Quadband network, will only do GPRS/EDGE data connection. There is a 2 megapixel camera at the front. Both side of the phone has simple design. There is no external display screen on the prototype in the leaked photos, which was stated last week. The inner display screen is able to support 16 million colors at 140 x 320 pixels. It will be running S40 UI with 27MB internal memory. No words on the availability date yet.
Nokia 7510 Supernova clamshell phone
Source [flickr] via [talkaboutnseries] via [engadgetmobile]
You will never know what you can find in the big flickr picture collection. Today talkaboutnseries.com has “accidentally” found a list of unannounced model, including the Nokia N85 we reported earlier on.
These are actually a good and clear leak, although there isn’t any description put together with the photos. The Nokia N79 looks like another 3G phone from Nokia, coms with a Carl Zeiss camera lens (the megapixel wording is too blur for us to determine). 2 flash LEDs will help you in low light photography, the camera lens is protected by a lens cover too.
The next leak is the familiar Nokia “tube”, the new S60 touch UI which is available in year 2009. It should be the first S60 touch UI phone from Nokia and will be featuring a wide screen with 16:9 ratio. It will support quad band network, come with built in bluetooth, GPS, WiFi, HSDPA/UTMS to give you a complete wireless package. The touch UI in this prototype do not support multitouch, but does have haptic feedback when you touch the screen.
This model is called Nokia 5800 XpressMedia according to flickr, you can also see a 3.2 megapixel camera at its back with auto focus capability. It will be on its way to Vodafone customer, probably for users in Europe.
Check out 2 more Nokia 5800 XpressMedia photos at next page
Source [flickr] via [talkaboutnseries] via [engadgetmobile]
Qik is now available on the Motorola Q and Samsung BlackJack as well as the Nokia N-Series phones, although it is still in limited availability through an invitation only alpha program.
With Qik’s free live video streaming service, users can stream live video to the Internet in just two clicks from their mobile phone, and join others as they watch online and engage in live interactive chat. Everyone from journalists to politicians use Qik to be transparent in their reporting and campaigning on a global Web platform. With a simple to use interface and site, any user is able to stream what they are seeing and interact with the world.
“We’re thrilled to be working with Microsoft and extending Qik’s live streaming service to Windows Mobile phones,” said Ramu Sunkara, co-founder and CEO of Qik. “We are also excited to partner with the Windows Mobile team to optimize Qik for the Windows Mobile platform.”
Currently in alpha, Motorola Q and Samsung BlackJack users can request an invitation for the service by signing up at http://qik.com/. The company is working closely with the Windows Mobile team to get the product offering into beta in the coming months, as well as expanding to additional Windows Mobile phones.
Someone has sent Engadget an unknown Nokia NSeries slider phone with N00 model number stamped on the phone. It is told to be the Nokia N85, which comes with a 5 megapixel camera, GPS, 2 flash LED behind and a secondary video call camera.
It is still not confirmed that this model to be called N85, it will be better to put it as N00 fo now. check out next page for more photos.
Source [engadget]
Today AT&T provided details on the data plans that it will be offering for the new Apple iPhone 3G when it starts shipping next month. The new unlimited data add-on for the device will cost either $30 or $45 per month, depending on the type of customer.
Zumobi announced its latest release for Windows Mobile. The updated application delivers new features and functionality to improve user experience and give the growing number of Zumobi users greater content from which to choose.
One of the most compelling features of the new release is a Tile Wizard, which allows users to easily create their own Zumobi mobile widgets. Users can choose the look and feel of these widgets, stream data from their choice of RSS feeds, and turn personal blogs and favorite Web content into Zumobi Tiles they can enjoy as well as share with friends. Another new feature accompanying this release is the on-phone Tile Gallery, which enables users to select and upload Tiles directly from their mobile handset, allowing Zumobi users to explore and swap new content in and out while on-the-go. Zumobi also has produced a streamlined client for faster downloads of the application and a smaller on-phone footprint.
With the release, Zumobi will also unveil a series of 12 videos designed to show users everything they need to know to take advantage of the mobile widget platform, from how to navigate, make a Tile, share one and more. To view the Zumobi tour video and to find out 11 things you should know about the mobile widget platform, visit www.Zumobi.com/support.html.
For more information, including Zumobi tour videos, or to download the latest version of the mobile widget platform optimized for Windows Mobile 6 or higher, visit www.Zumobi.com or get.zumobi.com on the mobile Web.
The new agreement between Apple and AT&T eliminates the revenue-sharing model under which AT&T shared a portion of monthly service revenue with Apple. Under the revised agreement, there is no revenue sharing and both iPhone 3G models will be offered at lower prices to accelerate subscriber volumes. The phones will be offered with a two-year contract and attractive data plans that are similar to those offered for other smartphones and PDAs.
With a two-year contract, the price of an 8GB iPhone 3G will be $199; the 16GB model will be priced at $299. Unlimited iPhone 3G data plans for consumers will be available for $30 a month, in addition to voice plans starting at $39.99 a month. Unlimited 3G data plans for business users will be available for $45 a month, in addition to a voice plan.
So did you satisfy with the iPhone 3G new announcement? Here is the keynote transcript done by iPhonebuzz live coverage team.
07:17 am Vincent Nguyen: Onsite at Moscone West! The line outside is packed with attendees. Press registration starts at 8am.
07:39 am Vincent Nguyen: Quick video of the gift bag that apple is giving out to antendee — has t-shirt inside.
08:39 am Vincent Nguyen: Before things get too crazy later (n 1 1/2 hours) I wanna do a quick shout out to my buds at the Chandler Fashion Square mall in Chandler, AZ! Thanks for saving my ass (long story — HDD failed on MBP 2 days prior to event!)
08:44 am Vincent Nguyen: Damn DOOR! It’s is the only thing keeping me from the entering .
09:27 am Ewdi: Roughly 30 minutes to the event…..
09:41 am Vincent Nguyen: Door is open, but broadcast journalists are allowed in first
09:49 am Vincent Nguyen: And we’re in!
09:50 am Vincent Nguyen: I’m in the third row from the front, music still playing and ten minutes or so to go
09:53 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s going to take a while for everyone to get in - this is a big room
09:56 am Vincent Nguyen: No shortage of special guests. Al Gore and Walt Mossberg already in the room.
10:03 am Vincent Nguyen: The stage is looking pretty lonely - just two iMacs on there
10:04 am Vincent Nguyen: Apple ushers are trying to settle the room down, asking people to turn off their phones
10:06 am Vincent Nguyen: Lights are dimming
10:07 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve is on stage
10:07 am Vincent Nguyen: Massive applause from audience and Apple staff
10:08 am Vincent Nguyen: “We’ve been working hard on some stuff we can’t wait to share with you”
10:08 am Vincent Nguyen: “There are 52,000 attendees at WWDC”
10:08 am Vincent Nguyen: They sold out the venue and couldnt’ find anywhere bigger
10:10 am Vincent Nguyen: They’ll be talking about the iPhone this morning and the developer programme
10:10 am Vincent Nguyen: After lunch, we’ll be looking at Snow Leopard
10:10 am Vincent Nguyen: The new version of OS X
10:10 am Vincent Nguyen: 250,000 ppl have downloaded the iPhone SDK
10:11 am Vincent Nguyen: Of those, 4,000 have been in the beta program
10:11 am Vincent Nguyen: Out of 25,000 applications
10:11 am Vincent Nguyen: Starting to talk about iPhoen Enterprise features
10:11 am Vincent Nguyen: Recapping the last announcement: Exchange support, etc
10:12 am Vincent Nguyen: Push email, contacts, calendars, global address book
10:12 am Vincent Nguyen: 35% of the Fortune 500 companies have been testing the new iPhone enterprise functionality
10:13 am Vincent Nguyen: They’ve been closely working with Cisco on the VPN and security side
10:13 am Vincent Nguyen: They’ve also been working with higher education establishments
10:13 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve is showing us a video of how iPhone 2.0 has been used
10:14 am Vincent Nguyen: Multiple talking-heads with company CTOs discussing the appeal of iPhone 2.0
10:14 am Vincent Nguyen: According to Steve the feedback has been “fantastic”
10:15 am Vincent Nguyen: Company IT people are falling over themselves to praise the platform
10:16 am Vincent Nguyen: Including contacts search - finally! - that filters as you enter search terms
10:16 am Vincent Nguyen: The army has been playing with the iPhone too
10:17 am Vincent Nguyen: Video over, Steve back on stage with Scott Forestell to discuss SDK
10:17 am Vincent Nguyen: Apparently Apple internally uses beta release SDKs
10:18 am Vincent Nguyen: He’s recapping that much of the iPhone code is the same as in OS X
10:18 am Vincent Nguyen: The same native APIs
10:18 am Vincent Nguyen: Cocoa Touch, Media, Core Service, Core OS - that last is very similar to OS X
10:19 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re particularly proud of the OpenGL implementation - it’s “very fast”
10:19 am Vincent Nguyen: Core Services include everything from database layer to core location so combining functionality is straightforward
10:20 am Vincent Nguyen: Cocoa Touch, as discussed last time, is all about making the GUI as quickly as possible
10:20 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve is discussing the development tools
10:21 am Vincent Nguyen: Scott is going to demo constructing an interface using Interface Builder
10:21 am Vincent Nguyen: App is called Nearby Friends and ties into the address book API and the core location API
10:21 am Vincent Nguyen: Displays whoever is within 10 miles of you
10:22 am Vincent Nguyen: XCode imports the APIs and then Interface Builder is used to drag in icons and controls
10:22 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s all ridiculously slick, but it’s nothing we didn’t see last time
10:24 am Vincent Nguyen: Demo is continuing
10:25 am Vincent Nguyen: Interface Builder has been told exactly what the iPhone can display, and it’s reflowing the icons to suit the screen
10:25 am Vincent Nguyen: Scott is showing the app in the iPhone simulator (that comes with the SDK)
10:26 am Vincent Nguyen: Cue applause as the finished app works and doesn’t crash anything
10:26 am Vincent Nguyen: Took just 10 minutes to make
10:26 am Vincent Nguyen: Now imagine how slick it would be with GPS too!
10:27 am Vincent Nguyen: The developers are going wild, you’d think they’d hate coding or something
10:27 am Vincent Nguyen: Scott has a Big Book of Praise full of happy quotes
10:28 am Vincent Nguyen: “You’re witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, OS X and iPhone” - quote from David Pogue
10:28 am Vincent Nguyen: Developers are being invited onto the stage to show off their wares
10:28 am Vincent Nguyen: SEGA are back with Super Monkey Ball
10:29 am Vincent Nguyen: Ethan Einhorn from SEGA is discussing how impressed he was when they set to coding Super Monkey Ball
10:30 am Vincent Nguyen: Because development was so quick, they could add lots of levels: over 100, all the monkeys
10:30 am Vincent Nguyen: Tilt control demo is super-slick
10:31 am Vincent Nguyen: Ethan is playing a Super Monkey Ball level, tilting the iPhone to move through
10:31 am Vincent Nguyen: It took them 95 days to code and will cost $9.99
10:31 am Vincent Nguyen: from the official App Store
10:31 am Vincent Nguyen: eBay have been invited up to the stage
10:32 am Vincent Nguyen: Ken Sun from the online auction site is discussing their eBay app for the iPhone
10:32 am Vincent Nguyen: You can track your watchlist, add items to it
10:33 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s not quite as exciting as Super Monkey Ball, I’m afraid, but it looks very usable
10:33 am Vincent Nguyen: Plus Ken says it only took them five weeks to develop
10:33 am Vincent Nguyen: eBay app will be free
10:34 am Vincent Nguyen: You can bid directly from the iPhone, as well as browse listings and look at all the photos with a gesture-based scroll
10:35 am Vincent Nguyen: The people from Loopt are on-stage, it’s a location-aware app
10:35 am Vincent Nguyen: Similar to Buddy Beacon from Helio - shows your friends pinpointed on a map
10:36 am Vincent Nguyen: You can see more at loopt.com
10:37 am Vincent Nguyen: There are Facebook-like status tweets for each person: “Check out this giant redwood tree” for instance
10:37 am Vincent Nguyen: Each person has a user profile, with photos they’ve submitted and a log of where they’ve been
10:38 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s cross-profile - will work on other mobile devices and all of them play nicely together - and will be free when the App Store launches
10:38 am Vincent Nguyen: TypePad are next, with a dedicated iPhone blogging tool
10:38 am Vincent Nguyen: Has photoblogging functionality, with geotagging
10:39 am Vincent Nguyen: According to the TypePad rep photoblogging is one of the platforms most popular features
10:39 am Vincent Nguyen: Photo can be taken directly from the camera or picked from shots already in the iPhone gallery
10:39 am Vincent Nguyen: It’ll also be free
10:40 am Vincent Nguyen: Associated Press (AP) are on-stage now
10:40 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re here to plug their Mobile News Network - thousands of news sources funneled into your iPhone
10:41 am Vincent Nguyen: It’ll cache news so you can read it while underground or trapped in the hold of a plane
10:41 am Vincent Nguyen: Includes images and video
10:42 am Vincent Nguyen: You can also send them news and video for the network
10:43 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s also tied into your location, so it will show topics relevent to where you are
10:43 am Vincent Nguyen: Pangaea software are on-stage, talking about two new games
10:43 am Vincent Nguyen: Both ported from OS X
10:44 am Vincent Nguyen: One is physics-based, you need to touch, drag and rotate
10:44 am Vincent Nguyen: The other is a driving game: Cro Mag Rally, in 3D
10:44 am Vincent Nguyen: You play as a racing caveman
10:45 am Vincent Nguyen: According to Pangaea it only took 3 days to port it all across
10:45 am Vincent Nguyen: Including changing the controls so that tilting the iPhone mimics a steering wheel
10:46 am Vincent Nguyen: Both will be priced at $9.99
10:47 am Vincent Nguyen: A lone developer from the British insurance industry is on-stage, Mark Terry
10:47 am Vincent Nguyen: Thankfully it’s not about insurance - it’s a game, virtual instruments called Band
10:48 am Vincent Nguyen: He’s demo’ing it by playing with Imagine by John Lennon
10:48 am Vincent Nguyen: Consists of drum background, a piano and more
10:48 am Vincent Nguyen: Best of all - and the crowd love him and it - is the fact that he developed it in his spare time
10:49 am Vincent Nguyen: Sorry, it’s actually called Cow Terry, not Band
10:49 am Vincent Nguyen: You can record what you play
10:50 am Vincent Nguyen: MLB.com are on-stage, talking about their new baseball app
10:50 am Vincent Nguyen: Jeremy Schoenherr demo’ing it - lots of stats and live game info
10:51 am Vincent Nguyen: It can tell you who is playing where, what the score is, real-time video highlights
10:51 am Vincent Nguyen: Both it and Cow Terry will be available when the App Store launches, but no prices given
10:52 am Vincent Nguyen: A doctor from Modality is on stage with two medical apps
10:53 am Vincent Nguyen: Basically using the iPhone as a teaching tool
10:55 am Vincent Nguyen: Ouch, it’s almost 11am and there have been no big announcements
10:55 am Vincent Nguyen: Second medical app lets consultants and specialists look at medical imaging while mobile
10:56 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s tricky to get excited about this without wearing a white coat
10:58 am Vincent Nguyen: MultiTouch gestures are used to rotate and flip the images, pull up rulers and shake to get rid of them
10:58 am Vincent Nguyen: The final developer is on-stage, and it’s another game
10:59 am Vincent Nguyen: Digital Legends Entertainment - they only started working on their title 2 weeks ago
11:00 am Vincent Nguyen: Basically a fighting game, touching the screen moves the fighter
11:00 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s unique to the iPhone and will appear in the App Store come September
11:01 am Vincent Nguyen: Uses OpenGL and dynamic graphic rendering, it looks like a decent 3D fantasy adventure actually
11:02 am Vincent Nguyen: Apparently developers have been asking for a way to know when users aren’t running an app
11:03 am Vincent Nguyen: Apple is criticising Background Processes as the wrong way to accomplish this - they eat battery and CPU cycles
11:03 am Vincent Nguyen: Ouch, they’re showing Windows Mobile Task Manager, and it’s not as an example of good practice
11:04 am Vincent Nguyen: “We’ve come up with a far better solution, a push notification service we’ll provide to all developers”
11:05 am Vincent Nguyen: The iPhone maintains an ongoing connection with an Apple server
11:05 am Vincent Nguyen: When you quit an app, updates are shuffled from server to iPhone; developers send the updates to Apple
11:06 am Vincent Nguyen: Uses Badges, which alert the no. waiting, Custom Alert sounds and Text Alerts that are similar to text alerts
11:06 am Vincent Nguyen: Won’t be available until September, but developers will be able to access it soon
11:06 am Vincent Nguyen: iPhone SDK has been updated
11:07 am Vincent Nguyen: Now includes iWork document support together with Word, Excel & Powerpoint compatibiltiy, plus the ability to save images (finally!) and a new scientific calculator
11:07 am Vincent Nguyen: Bulk and move mesages, parental controls and new language support
11:08 am Vincent Nguyen: Finger-drawn Chinese and Japanese character entry
11:08 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re popular additions in the room, the crowd is v.excited!
11:09 am Vincent Nguyen: The 2.0 firmware will be available in early July
11:09 am Vincent Nguyen: Free for iPhone, $9.99 for iPod Touch owners
11:09 am Vincent Nguyen: Now Steve is discussing the App Store
11:10 am Vincent Nguyen: Sorry, $9.95 for iPod Touch owners
11:10 am Vincent Nguyen: Confirming App Store T&Cs: 70% of revenue kept by developers, FairPlay verification, no charge for free software
11:11 am Vincent Nguyen: There’ll be wireless downloads direct to your device, and automatic updates
11:11 am Vincent Nguyen: App Store will be available in 62 countries; will check your connection and the app size before download starts
11:11 am Vincent Nguyen: if the app is under 10MB then it will come over the mobile network; bigger, and it’ll use either WiFi or iTunes
11:12 am Vincent Nguyen: Enterprise clients can set up their own private App Stores on their intranets and limit employee iPhones to access them
11:13 am Vincent Nguyen: That’s been a specific request from business customers
11:13 am Vincent Nguyen: Discussing a new way to distribute and test apps: Ad Hoc
11:14 am Vincent Nguyen: create a group of up to 100 iPhones and send apps to all of them; Steve suggesting this would be useful for testing betas or in classrooms
11:14 am Vincent Nguyen: Something entirely new: MobileMe
11:14 am Vincent Nguyen: “Exchange for the rest of us” - demo by Phil
11:15 am Vincent Nguyen: Push email, calendar and contacts without an Exchange server
11:15 am Vincent Nguyen: Ouch, Phil Schiller has just called ActiveSync “ActiveStink”
11:16 am Vincent Nguyen: Works cross-platform and info is pushed up and down: e.g. new email goes to all devices and from all devices
11:16 am Vincent Nguyen: Continuous, automatic syncronisation
11:16 am Vincent Nguyen: And it’s all done over-the-air via the cellular connection
11:16 am Vincent Nguyen: Mail, iCal and Address Book on Mac all supported, as is Outlook
11:18 am Vincent Nguyen: New site: Me.com
11:18 am Vincent Nguyen: Recreates the desktop experience but online from anywhere
11:19 am Vincent Nguyen: Syncs everything - including photos - and looks just like Apple’s Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Gallery apps
11:19 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re calling it a “breakthrough web 2.0 app interface” and it looks amazing
11:20 am Vincent Nguyen: iDisk is integrated into Me.com; Phil Schiller is demonstrating it now
11:20 am Vincent Nguyen: It includes everything you’d get with Outlook Web Access, with more besides - it all acts just as you’d expect the desktop version to
11:21 am Vincent Nguyen: Drag’n’Drop, multiple message select, in-line replies, complete control over pane and window resizing
11:22 am Vincent Nguyen: Contacts includes live searching and ties with Google Maps
11:22 am Vincent Nguyen: Calendar has color coding and you can drag’n’drop events, as well as display multiple views
11:23 am Vincent Nguyen: Gallery has thumbnail scrolling and drag’n’drop
11:23 am Vincent Nguyen: Hard to believe this is all web-based, it’s miles ahead of the competition in terms of interface
11:24 am Vincent Nguyen: iDisk app can send files to individuals through the web interface
11:24 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re demonstrating the over-the-air capacity: iPhone sync’ing with Me.com
11:25 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s all happening live: email, contacts, appointments, all show up on both at the same time
11:25 am Vincent Nguyen: With read status and any amendments intact
11:26 am Vincent Nguyen: Very little lag when something is changed, though presumably this is all via WiFi not cellular data on the iPhone itself
11:27 am Vincent Nguyen: Thank goodness for unlimited data plans!
11:28 am Vincent Nguyen: “Exchange for the rest of us … The perfect companion”
11:28 am Vincent Nguyen: $99 a year
11:28 am Vincent Nguyen: That includes 20GB online storage; MobileMe replaces .Mac
11:29 am Vincent Nguyen: 60 day trial and available in early July
11:29 am Vincent Nguyen: .Mac users auto upgraded
11:29 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve’s back on stage
11:29 am Vincent Nguyen: First iPhone shipped on June 29th last year
11:30 am Vincent Nguyen: Um, Steve is using a photo of me to illustrate the launch
11:30 am Vincent Nguyen: 90% customer satisfaction
11:31 am Vincent Nguyen: 98% of ppl use it to browse online, 94% use email, 90% SMS messaging, 80& ten or more features
11:31 am Vincent Nguyen: Apple ran out of stock several weeks ago - 6m sold
11:32 am Vincent Nguyen: Next challenges: more affordable, 3G networks, enterprise, third party apps, mmore countries
11:32 am Vincent Nguyen: 3G iPhone!
11:32 am Vincent Nguyen: “today we’re introducing the iPhone 3G”
11:33 am Vincent Nguyen: Black back panel, thinner edges, full plastic back
11:33 am Vincent Nguyen: “it’s really nice” says Steve
11:33 am Vincent Nguyen: Massive applause here
11:33 am Vincent Nguyen: solid metal buttons, flush 3.5mm headphone adaptor
11:34 am Vincent Nguyen: same 3.5-inch display, improved audio
11:34 am Vincent Nguyen: “Feels better in your hand” apparently
11:34 am Vincent Nguyen: They’d comparing EDGE vs 3G in a demo
11:35 am Vincent Nguyen: download in the browser takes 21 seconds on 3G and EDGE crawls along
11:35 am Vincent Nguyen: EDGE finally finishes after 59 seconds
11:36 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve is comparing 3G with WiFi speeds
11:36 am Vincent Nguyen: 17 seconds to download on WiFi
11:37 am Vincent Nguyen: 3G is 2.8x faster than EDGE
11:37 am Vincent Nguyen: Plus the iPhone 3G is 36% faster than other 3G phones (e.g. Treo 750 & Nokia N95)
11:38 am Vincent Nguyen: Email attachment takes 5 seconds on 3G, 18 seconds on EDGE
11:38 am Vincent Nguyen: Plus, Steve points out, the results are better to look at on the iPhone compared to rivals
11:38 am Vincent Nguyen: Standby time is 300hrs
11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: 3G talktime is 5hrs
11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: 2G talktime up 2hrs to 10hrs total!
11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: 5-6hrs of 3G browsing, 7 hours of video, 24hrs of audio
11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: GPS now built-in
11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: The room is going wild here
11:40 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s also assisted GPS, uses WiFi and cell towers to better pinpoint position
11:40 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve thinks location-based services are the future on the iPhone
11:40 am Vincent Nguyen: Can do tracking and work as a compass - without the dedicated compass Google recently showed in their Android prototype
11:41 am Vincent Nguyen: Demo GPS with a moving car icon on Google Maps
11:42 am Vincent Nguyen: Current iPhone available in 6 countries today, will be 12 countries for 3G version
11:42 am Vincent Nguyen: 25 countries over next few months
11:43 am Vincent Nguyen: Showing different countries getting ticked off on map - Canada, Sweden, Mexico, Norway, Netherlands, etc
11:44 am Vincent Nguyen: Seventy countries in total, including China, Australia and Japan
11:45 am Vincent Nguyen: Rollout over next few months
11:46 am Vincent Nguyen: Now price: was $599 at first launch, now $199!
11:46 am Vincent Nguyen: $199 for the 8GB iPhone 3G!
11:46 am Vincent Nguyen: $299 for the 16GB, $399 for the 32GB!
11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: The room here has just exploded
11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: They’ll make a white version too
11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: Rolled out at the same price all over the world
11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: Available July 11th
11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re showing the new advert
11:48 am Vincent Nguyen: Advert is showing a safe carried by security guards, with the iPhone 3G inside
11:49 am Vincent Nguyen: “The iPhone 3G is one of the most amazing products I’ve ever had the privilege to be associated with”
11:50 am Vincent Nguyen: iPhone teams are being called to their feet, and the applause is deafening
11:51 am Vincent Nguyen: “WWDC 2008, I think it’s going to be our best so far”
11:51 am Vincent Nguyen: The lights are coming up and it looks like the keynote is over
11:51 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve has left the stage
11:52 am Vincent Nguyen: There’s no “one more thing”, but a 3G iPhone should make up for that don’t you think?
11:52 am Vincent Nguyen: Thanks for reading the iPhone Buzz Live Blog - we hope you’ve been as excited about this year’s WWDC keynote as we have been!
11:52 am Vincent Nguyen: Make sure to keep reading iPhoneBuzz.com for all the details of the new iPhone 3G
Source [iphonebuzz]
Apple today introduced MobileMe, a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars for iPhone, iPod touch, Macs and PCs. MobileMe also provides a suite of elegant, ad-free web applications that deliver a desktop-like experience through any modern browser. MobileMe applications (www.me.com) include Mail, Contacts and Calendar, as well as Gallery for viewing and sharing photos and iDisk for storing and exchanging documents online.
“Think of MobileMe as ‘Exchange for the rest of us’,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Now users who are not part of an enterprise that runs Exchange can get the same push email, push calendars and push contacts that the big guys get.”
MobileMe, available on July 11, is a subscription-based service with 20GB of storage for $99 (US) per year for individuals and $149 (US) for a Family Pack, which includes one master account with 20GB of storage and four Family Member accounts with 5GB of storage each. MobileMe subscribers can purchase an additional 20GB of storage for $49 (US) or 40GB of storage for $99 (US) annually.
With a MobileMe email account, all folders, messages and status indicators look identical whether checking email on iPhone, iPod touch, a Mac or a PC. New email messages are pushed instantly to iPhone over the cellular network or Wi-Fi, removing the need to manually check email and wait for downloads. Push also keeps contacts and calendars continuously up-to-date so changes made on one device are automatically pushed up to the cloud and down to other devices. Push works with the native applications on iPhone and iPod touch, Microsoft Outlook for the PC, and Mac OS X applications, Mail, Address Book and iCal, as well as the MobileMe web application suite.
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