If you're really interested, the full keynote speech by Steve Jobs at WWDC 2010 can be found on the Apple website:
http://apple.com
For everyone else, I'm just going to list the key points:
- Stainless steel skeleton (which is also the antenna)
- Glass front & back
- LED flash / video light
- 5mp sensor
- Back side illuminated sensor (captures more photons per pixel)
- HD video (720P) recording
- iMovie for iPhone ($4.99)
- Front camera (for video calling)
- Dual mics for noise cancellation
- 326 pixels per inch (retina display)
- 800:1 contrast ratio
- Less than 10mm thick
- 3 axis gyroscope
- Powered by the A4 microprocessor
iPhone OS4 - Renamed to iOS 4:
- Multitasking
- Folders for apps
- Mail threading & unified inbox
- Suport for Bing
- iBooks PDF support
- iBooks syncs across all iOS devices (iPod, iPad, iPhone)
Enterprise integration:
- App distribution
- Multiple exchage
Improved battery:
- 3G talk: 7 hours
- 3G browsing: 6 hours
- Wifi browsing: 10 hours
- Video: 10 hours
- Music: 40 hours
- Standby: 300 hours
Interesting Wifi issues. Made all attendees turn off their laptops so he could have bandwidth for his demos.
June 24th release date:
- USA
- UK
- France
- Germany
- Japan
iOS upgrade free for all devices on June 21st.
The A4 microprocessor was developed by Samsung specifically for Apple and uses the ARM Cortex A8 infrastructure.
David Tarrant
Now, unlike the ipad this a product I can get excited about and would want to buy!
Connector Geek
I agree entirely. Until the iPad can be folded up small enough to fit in your pocket, this is the one I'll be buying.
On that subject, I remember that the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (the actual device itself) was described in one of the books as being flexible. It just strikes me that the original device as described by Douglas Adams seemed so completely SciFi 20 years ago, and now the iPhone is pretty much the same thing (and more - you couldn't make a phone call on the HHGTTG)
Okay - end of my pointless, off-topic musings...
LStacey
All it needs is "DON'T PANIC" written on it!
One of my favourite books of all time! Or should I say, trilogy in four parts?
LStacey
What's annoying about this is that I had convinced myself I didn't want one of these but now I've seen the specs... Ugh...