Apple WWDC: key announcements at-a-glance

 

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By Barry Collins

Posted on 8 Jun 2009 at 18:13

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference has kicked off in San Francisco. Keep refreshing this page for live updates on the key announcements:

iPHONE 3
New hardware - iPhone 3GS. 7.2Mbits/sec HSDPA, 3-megapixel autofocus camera, 30fps video, voice control, hardware encryption, 5hrs 3G talk time, 23% smaller than iPhone 3G. $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB. Black and white models. Available 19 June.

iPhone 3G dropped to $99.

iPhone 3.0 software free for iPhone users, $9.95 for touch owners, available from 17 June

TomTom GPS integration, including in-car dock that sticks to windscreen and charges iPhone

MMS support from 29 carriers, including Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange and O2 - looks like latter's exclusive contract has expired

Can rent and purchase movies on the phone

Support for tethering - use your iPhone as a modem for either PC or Mac, either via USB wired connection or Bluetooth

HTTP 5 video and audio support - watch and listen without downloading codecs

Find My iPhone - track lost handsets by logging into MobileMe, and remotely wipes data on stolen handsets

Autofill forms

Developers can embed Google Maps into iPhone Apps

New monitoring tools allow doctors to measure patients' heart rate via iPhone - scary...

SAFARI 4
New version of browser for Mac OS X and Windows

100% compliant with Acid3 tests

"Faster than Google Chrome"

SNOW LEOPARD
Apple takes a swipe at Microsoft, branding Windows 7 "just another version of Vista".

Upgrade price: $29 (family pack $49)

Launching in September

Snow Leopard to offer:

64-bit - support for up to 16 billion GB of RAM!

All "major" system apps run in 64-bit mode

OpenCL - an open standard which uses processing resources on the graphics card

Grand Central Dispatch - organises threads for
multicore processors

Full Exchange support

Revamped Finder

Expose built into Dock

OS installation "45% faster" and has 6GB smaller footprint

Handwriting recognition for trackpad

NEW MACBOOK PROS
New 15in MacBook Pro will have same built-in battery as 17in model - a trend Apple looks set to run and run with. Apple claims 7-hour battery life. Key specs of base model: 2.53GHz, 4GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, SD card slot. Price starts at $1,699.

17in MacBook Pro price drops to $2,499.

New 13in MacBook Pro starting from $1,199. 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo, 160GB hard disk, 9400M graphics and SD card slot.

MacBook Air prices cut too: $1,499 for base model.