MacWorld SF 2007 Keynote – Widescreen multitouch iPhone, Apple changes its name
Over 2 billion iTunes sold, 5 million songs/day, 58 songs/s
iTunes is now the 5th largest music reseller (after Walmart, Best Buy, Target and ???)
Paramount is now a partner, over 250 movies now on offer (to US users at least 🙂
Zune has 2% marketshare v iPod’s 62% in November
New iPod ads
AppleTV, buy content on iTunes and send it to your TV. 40Gb HD, 802.11b,g,n, Intel processor, 720p HD video, component RCA usb2, ethernet, HDMI. Auto sync content from 1 PC and stream from up to 5.
displays TV episode summary plus episode navigation
Move or stream photos to AppleTV
AppleTV US$299 (AU$449) shipping in February, order now
Has a (patented) multitouch interface to allow multifinger gestures on the touch screen
Runs Mac OS X! and syncs media (music, movies, podcasts, tv, photos, contacts, e-mail, notes, calendars) with iTunes
3.5 inch screen at 160 pixels per inch! (highest res screen ever shipped)
11.6mm thin, has an iPod connector
2 megapixel camera
Speaker, mic, proximity sensor (turns off display and music when brought to your ear)
Ambient light sensor
accelerometer to detect portrait v landscape orientation
Cover flow, find your music faster
Displays clock and battery levels plus signal strength (and Cingular logo), translucently over the background picture
GSM+EDGE phone, quad band, wifi, bluetooth
Big red/green onscreen buttons to hangup/make a call (still using red/green. Sigh)
Touch multiple contacts to add them to a conference call
Visual voicemail, displays all voicemailers and you can click to listen in any order
Multisession SMS messaging with iChat like speech bubbles and sounds
Photo viewing can switch based on orientation of device (landscape or portrait)
“Pinch” to zoom in
Supports rich html email (as sent by Jaguar’s Mail.app, no doubt 🙂
imap or POP, Safari as the phone’s web browser, Google Maps, Widgets, EDGE and wifi connection (automatically switches!)
Free Yahoo! imap e-mail to all iPhone customers
Push imap, ala the Blackberry
Pinch zooming supported on Google Maps satellite photos
Google are very happy
Playing music is muted, caller is added to address book. Add a photo from existing Photos. E-mail photo whilst still on the phone to recipient.
Use on speakerphone whilst web browsing, music fades back in when call finished.
5 hours of battery life, 16 for just audio
Slimline mic on iPod headset, or Bluetooth headset like iPod earphone on a stick
Over 200 patents in the one device, it advances the state of the art
4Gb model is US$499
8Gb model is US$599
Price includes 2 year Cingular contract
Not shipping until June (FCC approval takes 2 months)
Europe by 4th Quarter this year, Asia by 2008. Cingular is the exclusive US partner
“Innovation on the phone and the network” indicates that some network support is necessary for some of the features (ie visual voicemail).
Too many features mean Steve’s clicker is broken
In 2006, 26 million game consoles, 94m cameras, 135m mp3 players, 209m PC’s, 957m mobile phones sold worldwide. 1% of that market is 10 million phones, which is what Apple is going for.
Apple Computer, Inc. is now officially Apple, Inc.!
“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been” – Wayne Gretzky
Standing ovation
Steve thanks Apple developers and their families
John Mayer (nominated for 5 Grammys) rounds out the keynote set