iPhone 3Gs with More Speed
Steve Jobs was not there. Although the Wall Street Journal, the rumor mill for a possible appearance by the Apple fans idolatrous revered leaders recently fueled properly. But Jobs was the opening event of the developer conference WWDC away and left as planned marketing chief Phil Schiller on stage. He had the end of the event is no "one more thing" sleeve, but still a new iPhone.
The "S" in the new iPhone 3GS stands for Speed: Thanks to new, unspecified hardware is the mobile phone about twice as fast as its previous work and via Internet-HSDPA data with up to 7.2 Mbps in the downstream transfer. New camera hardware will be photos with 3 mega-pixel resolution record. First, there is an Auto Focus, and the possibility of videos with VGA resolution and 30 frames per second, they are still around in the iPhone to be cut and about to Youtube or Mobile Me or upload via MMS or e-mail. One calls for appropriate video camera on the front, the iPhone still does not.
Even the iPhone gets voice control and a compass, using the run-up to the usual sites already had been heavily speculated. The battery life had been based on 9 hours surfing, 10 hours of video and 30 hours of music operations improved promised Schiller. Note: 9 hours are in the WLAN, HSDPA, however, with 5 hours.
The new iPhone is on 19 June on the market and come with 16 GB memory for AT & T customers $ 199 cost, with 32 GByte of a hundred more. On the same date it should go here, but are German prices and contract terms have not yet been determined. The current 3G model with 8 GB memory is at a discounted price of $ 99 in bid to stay.
Apple's Scott Forstall manager had at the event once again with the previously known features of iPhone OS 3.0 show that from 17 June also owners of older equipment to be ready. The new function "Find my iPhone" will in the search for lost or stolen devices over the Internet to help, but a fee-Mobile-Me membership requires. From afar, the owner of a message to the Finder or transmit all data and settings can delete. iPhone OS 3.0 will be from 17 June as a free update for iPhone owners appear; iPod touch owners will get it for 8 euros.
Apple also revealed interesting new applications, including some games and the first solution for turn-by-turn navigation TomTom delivers. The company wants from both a summer Navi software in the App Store as well as a car kit for mounting to the windshield offer, which the GPS signal from the iPhone will increase. By "Scroll Motion", an e-book Reader, Apple takes on Amazon Kindle. About 1 million books, including 500 Topseller, 170 U.S. daily newspapers and 50 magazines should be read in order.
More than 50,000 programs are now in the App Store to download or purchase, announced by Apple. Over 40 million devices with iPhone OS are now been sold, the iPod touch included.
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