June 9, 2008 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple kicked off this year’s World-Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) with Steve Jobs keynote speech introducing the new iPhone. Text from DJCline.com.
Apple sold 6 million iPhones in the past year. The iPhone 3G will top that. The 3G connection is three times faster than the old Edge network. It has GPS accurate enough to track you through San Francisco’s curvy Lombard Street. With heavy use it will run on batteries for around eight hours. The 16GB model will be $299; an 8GB will be $199. They will be on sale in 22 countries starting July 11, 2008.
iPhone users will now be able to connect to their employer’s Microsoft Exchange using Cisco’s very secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) software. CTOs and IT Managers will now have to accept this Trojan smartphone in the corporate environment. Not so Trojan is that you can have applications specific to your company. MobileMe delivers push e-mail, contacts, and calendars to iPhones without using ActiveSync but still using AJAX applications.
It means you can save gas and work from home or anywhere. You will even be able to give PowerPoint presentations from it. The option to leave your laptop behind should lighten the load of any road warrior.
An interesting user interface tool is the accelerometer, which acts like the Wii game controls. You tilt the iPhone back and forth to maneuver through games like Super Monkey Ball. The game will be sold through the AppStore for $9.99.
Other applications can be downloaded for free. You can use your iPhone to buy or sell on eBay, taking the device one step closer to being your digital wallet. Loopt lets you know where your friends are. No word about your enemies. TypePad’s Michael Sippey showed how you can blog on your iPhone including adding or deleting photos. The Associated Press offers an app to give you local news no matter where you are.
There are medical and science breakthroughs as well. The iPhone has a full scientific calculator. You can enter Chinese and Japanese characters by drawing them on the screen! Doctors will be able to see your medical images in great detail from anywhere.
With all the bad news going on, all of this was good news.
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