iPhone 4 unveiled Today at Apple Inc.'s Worldeide Developers Conference
At Apple Inc.'s Worldeide Developers Conference , Steve Jobs took the stage to announce new features and products from the company.The chief executive began by giving an update on the Apple iPad and said since its debut now has 8,500 apps and has sold over 2 million iPads in just over two months .
So far 35 million apps have been downloaded and Mr Jobs gave an update on ipads buitl-in book software and said the ibookstore platform has sold over 5 million books in the first 65 days !
Jobs then called CEO Reed Hastings to the stage to announce a new free Netflix application for the iPhone. Hastings said the Netflix app for iPad has been among the most popular apps in Apple's App Store and No. 1 in the entertainment category and will be avilable this summer .
Also there was an announcement by Mr Marc Pincus , CEO of Zynga that there would be an iPad version of Farmville which is played by 35 million everyday mainly on Facebook .Jobs then announced Apple has surpassed 5 billion downloads and has paid out 1 billion to its app developers and stated " we were thrilled about that ".
Mr Jobs went on to announce the unvailing of the ipod 4 and stated "It’s one of the most beautiful designs you’ve ever seen . It's beyond a doubt the most precise things and one of the most beautiful things we've ever made."
The iphone 4 is the thinnest smart phone on the planet and went on to note it is 24 % thinner than its predecessor . Jobs anouncement of the iphone 4 new retina display which boast resolution four times higher than that of previous versions .It has a 3.5 in. display and features 960x 640 pixels and an incredible is 78 % of the pixels the iPads have . and Jobs called it "the best window on the planet" .
The iPhone 4 will have a built-in Gyroscope and a much more precise motion sensor that can sense the phone's position around three difference axes. It can sense pitch, roll, and yaw -- with the accelerometer, that means the new phone can sense six different axes of motion.
Jobs announces a new version of the iPhone's operating system renamed iOS4 then shows off the new metallic logo. The OS will have 100 new features .Next Mr. Jobs announces that the iPhone will now offer Microsoft Corp.'s Bing as a search engine. Google's search engine will remain the default, but users will now be able to choose Bing as well as Yahoo which has bee an option for some time now .
iPhone 4 will include the iBooks application which allows users to download and read books from the iBookstore . Jobs said the app will sync across multiple Apple devices -- meaning you can buy a book once on your iPad and have it wirelessly sync/download to your iPhone or iPod Touch !
One of the neatest features is iBooks app will automatically sync notes, bookmarks and your "place" (where you left off in the book) across all your Apple devices. The three Apple stores -- iTunes, App Store, and iBookStore, have 125 million credit card accounts combined and also there have been 16 billion downloads of the different media types
Mr Jobs then speaks of "Why are we doing iAd?" well "To help our dvelopers earn money to help them produce free and low cost apps for users." He then listed a number of advertisers who will be early entrants into the iAd platform of which he ratteled off Unilever, Chanel, AT&T, GE, Liberty Mutual, State Farm, Geico, Nissan, Campbell's Soup, Sears, JC Penney, Target, Best Buy. DirectTV, the TBS network, and Disney . So far Jobs said advertisers had commited $60 million dollars for the second half of 2010 .
Then Mr jobs calls colleague Jony Ive with his iPhone 4 and states , "The idea of communicating this way, it's an old idea, but we've had to wait an awfully long time for it to become real, haven't we?" But now video chatting is real .
Apple's name for it is FaceTime.But there are drawbacks as it only works with WiFi -- and of course, only with iPhone 4 models because they have the video camera.Though they expect to ship tens of millions of FaceTime capable devices, they'll only work with Wi-Fi for the rest of 2010. Mr Jobs Stated
"We need to work with the wireless providers , before FaceTime will work on the cellular network."
iPhone 4 will go on sale June 24th . They'll be available in both black and white. The phone will cost $199 for the 16Gb version, and $299 for the 32Gb version . Current iPhone owners will be able to get the new phones for the same prices as new customers as long as hey renew their AT&T contracts by the end of 2010.
Owners of recent older models will be able to download the new operating system. Upgrades for 3GS and 3G will be available in June -- but 3G doesn't get multitasking .
Mr Jobs wraps up the presentation with "We're not just a tech company , even though we invent some of the highest technology products in the world," he said."It's the marriage of that plus the humanities and the liberal arts that distinguishes Apple."
Mr Jobs ends the presentation with recognition to the multiple design , software and hardware teams for a job well done .
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