Jun 08

WWDC ‘09!

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Apple is hitting off their annual WWDC, or Worldwide Developers Conference, at June 8th, which happens to be today. The conference will begin at 10am Pacific Time.

Update: The conference is over, you can watch it at Apples website, here.

The price of the iPhone 3G has dropped from $199 to $99, because they “want to reach more customers”. The conference introduced a lot of new features for iPhoneOS 3.0 as well as a new iPhone.

    New Features:

  • Tethering: Tethering is indeed coming in iPhoneOS 3.0, without any need for a app, it will run in the background.
  • Find my iPhone: Find your lost iPhone, remotely wipe your private data, or send an alert to your phone. Of course, you need to be a MobileMe customer.
  • Multimedia Messaging: Seamlessly integrated into SMS.app, you can now send pictures, video, audio, and contacts along with those text messages.
  • Parental Controls: Control what you can buy, in the iTunes Store and App Store.
  • Voice Controls: Control your music, make calls, and more with voice controls.
  • Encrypted iPhone Backups with iTunes.
  • YouTube & MobileMe Push: Push your videos from your iPhone to YouTube or MobileMe.
  • Renting of TV Shows and Movies: You can now rent and download full movies and tv shows to your iPhone.
  • Purchasing of audiobooks: Purchase and listen to audiobooks on your iPhone.
  • Picture and video editing: Edit photos, trim video, all on your iPhone/
  • Inverting of the screen: Full inverting of the entire UI of the iPhone
  • Shake to undo: Made a change you don’t want, just shake to undo!
  • In-app zooming and panning: Something you cant read in a AppStore app you downloaded? That’s no problem, you can zoom in!
  • Selective deletion and forwarding: You can now delete certain messages, or forward those messages to other people.
  • Voice Memos: Record voice memos, sync them back to your computer, send them, or edit them.
  • Spotlight: Search your entire iPhone.
  • Turn-by-turn directions: Support for turn my turn directions on your iPhone.
    iPhone 3GS

  • Up to 2x Faster
  • Even Faster 3G
  • 3.0 Megapixel Auto-Focus Camera
  • 30 FPS VGA with audio
  • Built-in Digital Compass
  • Increased battery life
  • 16GB – $199
  • 32GB – $299

   

written by Steffwiz