Steve Jobs has announced the new iPhone. Everyone knew that this would happen at WWDC today. They have been taking their time at the demonstration today, that started at 10 AM local time. The new 2.0 software has been mentioned, that can communicate with Exchange servers, we could have seen enhancements regarding phonebook search, the SDK and several other small things (like WPA2 encryption support, or the Cocoa Touch interface, that helps developers in the creation of touch-controlled applications), but people weren't there for that, but because of the new iPhone.
Steve Jobs on stage
So they've got it.
But before that Sega demonstrated the game called Super Monkey Ball, which has 100 levels, extremely good graphics and will cost $10 USD when it hits stores. eBay followed with their demonstration, who have shown their interface designed for iPhone. It's nice but it doesn't have anything exceptional. The free TypePad application has also been mentioned, which is made for blogging (we can upload pictures too with it), but at this point many sites have been reporting in a bit annoyed manner.
Super Monkey Ball
They wanted to see the 3G iPhone.
We could have seen two new games from Pangea Software, the rally can be controlled by tilting the iPhone. Then the phone turned into a piano, hooray, but the announcement everyone has been waiting for has still not been done yet. We also got to know how such an application is made that presents latest baseball results on the device, cool. All these stuff that have been mentioned will be available via the 2.0 software, which will be freely available to all iPhone owners from July.
iPhone as a piano
MobileMe
After this we have been shown the MobileMe system, which keeps our contact list, calendar and photos continuously synchronized, all wireless. The account for MobileMe costs $99 USD monthly, and it comes with 20 GB storage space from Apple. This is the successor of .Mac.
And yes!
After selling six million iPhones, at last the second generation is born. The back is black, it's 0.7 mm thicker than the predecessor, has a 3.5" display, more advanced audio features, rounded corners on the bottom, but the basic design is based on the predecessor. But it will be available in white too. Steve Jobs has demonstrated that in the same network conditions, the new iPhone (which is officailly called iPhone 3G) downloads webistes 36% faster than Nokia N95. According to Apple, the new handset is capable of 3-4 hours of web browsing with one charge. 10 hours of talk time on 2G networks, half of this on 3G, while standby time is 300 hours. It has been revealed: there is HSDPA support too, but the camera still has a resolution of 2 megapixels. The screen resolution is 480 x 320 pixels, and it can play back VGA videos on this without a hinch. There is UDB 2.0 support, and the phone weighs 133 grams.
From the back
From the side
From the front
In white too
There is GPS, so the rumors were true. It's real GPS, we're very curious about the software and the map. Theoretically traffic monitoring, satellite view and communication with mobile networks' relay stations are all supported.
Available in many countries
And it will be available in lots of countries, at $199 USD for the 8GB edition and $299 USD for the 16GB, which are quite friendly numbers I think. Now we just have to wait for the full specs.
The pictures are from the reports of gizmodo and engadget.
And for the end, here's the official iPhone 3G ad:
Translated by Szaszati
