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Another WWDC Keynote is in the can. No Jobs on stage, but still an avesome keynote with good product upgrades delivered by Phil Schiller.
The first cat out of the bag was changes in the MacBook Pro lineup. The 13 inch unibody have joined the MacBook linup as a Pro, leaving the polycarbonate as the only MacBook left (maybe a future netbook will be a part of the MacBooks?). All MacBook Pros have gotten an SD card slot, and the 13 inch got a firewire 800 port. All MacBook Pros lost the ExpressCard slot, except the 17 inch. All the Pros and the Air jumped down in price.
Mac OS X Snow Leopard is getting released in September, as an inexpensive upgrade for all Leopard users. Highlights are mainly speed improvements and native exchange support in Mail, iCal and Address book. OpenCL will give you access to the amazing calculation power of the gpu. The whole OS has also gone 64 bit, with all native apps.
Safari 4 gets a 50% speed boost for java rendering and 100/100 on acid 3, and shipping today for tiger, leopard and windows. Quicktime gets complealy reworked, on backend and frontend, and (most important) a new brushed metal icon. Quicktime will also feature better basic editing for trimming clips.
iPhone 3.0 wil be released as a free software upgrade for all iPhones (small fee for all iPod Touches) on June 17th. It will future autofill in safari, and teathering for Telia Sonera (Netcom) and Telenor customers at lunch (sticking it to all US AT&T customers who are left in the darkness) in addition to all features announced in January. For all Mobile Me customers there will also be a service called Find my phone, helping you locate and remote erase a lost phone. Serveral iPhone 3.0 apps were demonstrated, but most interesting was the announsment of a TomTom turn by turn gps, with connectable accessories.
In Norway will there be a new iPhone model named iPhone 3G S on July 9th with a 3.2 mp still-camera capable of recording vga video. It will have a digital compass (not dependent on tracking movements on the gps), improved battery life and voice dialing/commands with voice synthesizer to respond to questions. The 16 gb will take the price point of the current 8 gb, and a 32 gb to take the price point of the current 16 gb. They will continue to sell the 8 gb iPhone 3G at about half price.
The Apple Store have all new and upgraded products, with new information. A big thanks to Gizmodo, gdgt, Engadget (who should get an auto refresh system), Cali Lewis, TWiT Live with Leo Laporte, iJustine, Alex Lindsay and Geoff Smith, and everyone else publishing about the keynote, making it a plessure for us to follow it live.
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