Apple World Wide Developer Conference recap
Steve Jobs has highlighted about the new iPhone 4 to be released in Australia around July. Nothing else was mentioned on Day 1 at the Apple Apple World Wide Developer Conference.
Below is a summary of changes for the iPhone 4.
Hardware upgrades
– 5MP camera
– LED flash next to camera lens
– tap to focus on video setting
– additional front facing camera
– A4 processor as per the iPad
– 16BG & 32GB storage capacities.
– Gyroscope, mainly for game playing.
– dual microphones at the top and bottom of the phone
– steel band around phone to assist with Wi-fi, bluetooth, reception signal.
– 940×640 resolution, Retina display giving much clearer viewing quality.
Software upgrades
– iOS4, Operating System 4.
– iMovie player for viewing videos
– upgraded interface for Video calling called Facetime. Will only be supported on Wi-fi in 2010, 3G later.
Pre-order available on June 15 in
iOS4 will come out June 21st for iPhone 3G, 3GS users, and iPod Touch.
iOS4 will allow multitasking (running up to 7 apps at once)
Steve Jobs went on to speak more about the iPhone related products.
The iAd advertising platform has $60 million committed from advertisers so far. Apple sells and hosts the iAds which keep you inside the app when clicked.
Apple has almost reach 100 million units sold of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.
Bing is being added as a native search engine to the products.
