The Apple WWDC conference is taking place this week. New Macbooks and Snow Leopard have been announced and details have finally been revealed regarding the new 3.0 OS.
Some of the new features include:
Ability for developers to use google maps third party hardware and internet connection sharing.
Remote erase function, support for HTTP streaming audio and video, copy and paste, MMS.
Find my iPhone (Which shows you where your iPhone is and sounds an alert even when in silent mode).
Loads of new apps have also been announced with third party hardware starting to make an appearance. Tom Tom has an iPhone dock to compliment its new app plus there are some pretty impressive new apps from the likes of Airstrip technologies that allows for the remote management of a patients stats.
Line6 and Planet Waves are working on a solution to control your guitar and amp from your iPhone. The demo at WWDC failed!iPhone OS 3.0 is free for all iPhone users and is available worldwide June 17th.
And now the BIG news!!
New iPhone: iPhone 3GS.
The S stands for speed and its 2X faster. Support for 7.2mbps hsdpa.
Brand-new built-in 3 megapixel autofocus camera.
Tap to focus.And it captures video.
You get a timeline you can scrub, and video editing features.
You can share videos from the iPhone via email, MMS ("if my carrier supports it"), YouTube, Mobile Me...
iPhone 3GS has voice control. You can ask the iPod App what's playing now.
Add to this a built in compass, Improved battery life. Now up to 9 hours of internet surfing, 10 hours of video, 30 hours of audio, 12 hours of 2g talk-time, 5 hours of 3g talk-time, Instant remote wipe and encrypted iTunes backups and you get well......er....most of the things we have wanted since the iPhone 3G launched last year! But godamn, we have to buy new hardware! Dammit dammit dammit ! I won't ! No way! Well...maybe it's worth it, but I can't afford it, it'll cost a fortune as I'm still in contract with no upgrade, No, not a chance, eek...but if I don't get one my arm might fall off......Oh GAWD!