From WWDC:
40 million iPhones + iPod Touches have already been sold, 1 Billion apps downloaded in 9 months.
iPhone 3GS – S=Speed, some 2-3x faster, looks like it has the same form factor.
- Supports OpenGL|ES 2.0 and 7.2Mbps HSPDA
- 3 megapixel autofocus camera, tap to tell it where to focus, Macro mode to 10cm, better low light sensitivity
- Also captures video! 30fps, VGA with audio, auto-focus/white-balance/exposure
- Edit video and send it to YouTube, MobileMe, MMS or e-mail
- Voice control – “Play songs like this”, “Call Scott”
- Digital compass
- Accessibility – VoiceOver, color inversion, zooming
- Nike+ support
- Data encryption
- Instant remote wipe, encrypted iTunes backups
- Improved battery life, 9 hours of net, 10 hours of video, 30 hours of audio, 12 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G talk
- Eco-friendly construction, arsenic free glass, BFR free, mercury free LCD
- US$199 for 16Gb, US$299 for 32Gb, US$99 for 8Gb iPhone!
- Available June 19th in US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, UK
- Progressive roll out to another 6 countries a week later, no Australian dates yet
iPhone 3.0
- cut/copy/paste/undo
- MMS support (later this year for AT&T customers)
- Search, Spotlight
- iTunes U now on iPhone iTMS
- Rent and purchase movies from phone
- Finer grained parental controls
- Bluetooth tethering to share connection “Requires carrier support” (ie presumably they just need to allow it!)
- Safari Javascript 3x faster
- Support for HTTP streaming audio and video, automatically determine best quality (what codecs I wonder?)
- HTML5 support
- Software based keyboard in portrait and landscape
- Find my iPhone, for MobileMe users shows last known location of the phone, lets you play a sound and send a message, and remote wipe the phone if necessary (to be restored from backup if you find it later).
iPhone Demos
- Asphalt 5 – car racing game
- Airstrip
- Critical Care – Monitor patient vitals via Push
- ScrollMotion – create digital books for the App Store, download them from inside the app
- TomTom – turn by turn direction app, and car accessory kit via the Accessory framework
- Star Defense
- Plus Network
- Pasco – sensors for iPhone
- Zipcar – lets you find a zipcar and remotely honk the horn and unlock the car so you know which one is yours!
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