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Thanks to everyone who stayed up late to follow the liveblog. It's been a big day (night), so we'll make sure we have a closer look at all the happenings over the next few hours.
Steve Jobs wants the iPhone teams to stand up so everyone can give them a round of applause.
Two guys carrying badges carrying a metal box into a locked room, then taking the 3G iPhone out of it. Super neat.
July 11 will be the worldwide rollout date. They've got a new ad.
That's it for the fourth problem. How about "more affordable?" An 8GB iPhone started at $599, went to $399, and now is going to sell at $199. (Steve makes a BOOM sound not with his mouth, but with the video). The 8GB model is going to be $199, 16GB will be $299. There's also going to be a white model. WHITE.
Apple will roll out the iPhone 3G in 70 countries in the next several months.
It's taking forever coloring every single small country in Europe like this. Spain is included, which makes Jesus (Diaz) happy. Lots of African countries now too, as well as Japan. NOT CHINA OR RUSSIA, surprisingly.
How about more countries? They've got 6 countries today, and are expanding to a bunch of countries that I won't type out right now because it's going too fast. He's playing the small world theme. Mexico and Canada are covered, as well as almost all countries in South America.
The second problem gets tackled by Microsoft Exchange and Cisco VPN and various other feature support. Third party applications and SDK takes care of the third issue.
GPS is built in. Location services "is going to be a really big deal." "It's gonna explode." They get location data from cell towers, Wi-Fi and GPS. Using GPS data, they can do tracking.jobs is showing someone driving down Lombard street--that really squiggly street in SF--and the dot for his location squiggles around as he's driving (it's a recorded video).
"We're doing this with great battery life." The 3G iPhone's standby is 300 hours. 2G talk time is up to 10 hours from 8 hours. 3G talk time is 5 hours. (Jobs says other phones have about 3 hours.) Browsing, 5-6 hours of 3G browsing. Video is 7 hours, and audio is 24 hours.
Now he's comparing an email attachment downloading the same email attachment in 3G vs. EDGE. 5 seconds vs. 18 seconds.
2.8X faster. Next to Wi-Fi, which loaded the page in 17 seconds, it's "amazingly zippy". Comparing two other 3G phones, one the Nokia N95 and one a Treo 750, which downloads in 33 seconds and 34 seconds respectively. 36% faster.
OH NO HE DIDN'T
59 seconds.
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How does the iPhone 3G address the problems Steve's listed earlier? Why would you want 3G? Because EDGE is slow a balls. Comparing the two phones downloaidng a website on EDGE and on 3G, 3G finishes in 21 seconds and EDGE finishes in ...
"We've learned so much with the first iPhone." He's pulling out the next iPhone. It's thinner at the edges, has a full plastic back, solid metal buttons, 3.5-inch display, camera, FLUSH HEADPHONE JACK, and improved audio.
SO! What are they going to do? "We're gonna take it to the next level, and today we're introducing the iPhone 3G."
In their first year, they've sold 6 million iPhones "until they ran out a few weeks ago." He's now talking about their "next challenges."
The iPhone has 90% customer satisfaction. 98% of people are browsing. 94% are using email, 90% are text messaging, and 80% are using 10 features or more.
Steve Jobs is back on stage, and he's reminiscing about the iPhone's launch. In a few weeks it'll be the iPhone's first birthday. "This is the phone that has changed phones forever."
Mobileme is available for $99 a year (like .Mac), and will have a 60 day free trial. 20GB of iDisk space is also included. Mobileme replaces .Mac, like we previously thought. .Mac users can keep using their stuff, but can automatically upgrade to mobileme whenever they want.
Photos work exactly the same way too, as Phil is showing off how syncing with that works. I think we get it Phil. "So that's mobileme." "It's like Exchange for the rest of us."
Calendar items work the same, being pushed from everywhere onto all your devices. He's now showing what happens when you move an event on your computer and how it shows up on your iPhone within about 10 seconds.
Now Phil's going through a process of getting an email with a lunch invite, which then loads up Google Maps of the restaurant. He saved the contact of the restaurant on the phone. Now, he goes back to the computer and sees the same email, which got pushed to all his devices with the correct "read" state. He also sees the contact that he created on the phone--the same one he just created--on the computer.
