Apple's WWDC Roundup

[TerriblePizza]

New iPhone on June 19th and iPhone OS 3.0 on June 17th.

The OS upgrade is free from iPhone owners, $9.99 for iPod Touch owners.

New phone is dubbed the iPhone 3GS and is available in the 16 gig variety for $199 and 32 gig variety for $299. The new hardware is supposedly twice as fast as the old edition and now sports a 3 megapixel autofocus camera.

The old iPhone 3G is now $99.

They also announced some cool new apps and features for iPhone, including "find my iPhone" which lets you log onto any browser and it shows you via GPS where your iPhone is. You can also send it a message to make it make noise so you can locate it. It also has a feature to let you erase all the information on your iPhone remotely incase it is stolen.

The also announced a slew of more powerful MacBooks up 3.03 ghz processors, 8 gigs of ram, and 500 gig HDD or 256 gig SSD.

They also announced Snow Leopard which will add a slew of features, including 64-bit support among other things. To upgrade from Leopard it is only $29

More information located: www.engadget.com

[Tweeder]

the iPhone was already hard to beat, but now with the power going into this phone it will be almost impossible to beat

which means more money in my pockets

[TerriblePizza]

the iPhone was already hard to beat, but now with the power going into this phone it will be almost impossible to beat

which means more money in my pockets

There is still plenty for them to improve. What will be interesting is when AT&T's exclusive contract runs out. Will Apple renew it? Or move the phone to Verizon, Sprint, etc for more availability?

[Tweeder]

There is still plenty for them to improve. What will be interesting is when AT&T's exclusive contract runs out. Will Apple renew it? Or move the phone to Verizon, Sprint, etc for more availability?

AT&T has the exclusive deal until the end of the year, and AT&T are trying to extend it until 2011 as we speak

The problem is with other companies is they do not want Apple to have all that control and that is why Verizon and Sprint turned Apple down in 2007. I think they would be willing to work with them now since it has been shown how popular the iPhone is now, but Verizon likes to have control of everything and is why they completely strip all blackberries down and put there own software on them.

I am thinking you will see another exclusive deal signed, otherwise I would think they would have held off until next year to release a new one on a new provider.

If they do not sign an exclusive there might be something written into the fact that it would be available with everybody not just one provider, which in turn might tick Verizon off because they are wanting an exclusive deal now

[joemac]

Anyone know a way to get out of a contract without paying the early termination fee? Im fuging suck of T-Mobile, and I really want an iphone, but I dont wanna pay 200 bucks for each of my lines.

[Tweeder]

crazy thing is now the 8gb 3G iphone is $99 with 2 year agreement starting today

and Joe the only way I have seen the ETF waived is if you can get an address of somewhere that is not in their coverage area and saying you moved there or are working full time there.

[Tweeder]

another thing people have to realize about the iPhone possibly going to other companies.

Verizon is about to leave the ancient CDMA technology behind finally!! I really doubt that Apple would make a CDMA phone which would be slower, because it does not run HSPDA, which AT&T 3G already does. Now Verizon will be headed to LTE next year, but it will not be anywhere near fully functional until the end of 2010 to 2011. So, you would be looking at Apple realsing the new iPhone LTE which is rumored next year, but it will only really work in the big markets and probably not all of them. So, my prediction is you will not see iPhone on Verizon for at least a year possibly 2 years.

Sprint might be able to get ahold of the iPhone, unless they change technologies yet once again and get closer and closer of running out of money.

That leaves T-Mobile, and all i know what to say is hmmmmmmm

[joemac]

So I have been reading all over the net about all of T-Mobile's servers getting hacked, and all customer data has been stolen. If that is the case, maybe I will be able to get out of my contract for free after all. :-)

[Tweeder]

I would def use that to your advantage

[Ncstatefan]

I'll stick with multitasking on my Pre, but I am getting a 13inch MacBook Pro for college

[Carolina Husker]

Anyone know a way to get out of a contract without paying the early termination fee? Im fuging suck of T-Mobile, and I really want an iphone, but I dont wanna pay 200 bucks for each of my lines.

My roommate got out of his Verizon contract by telling them he was moving to a town that was out of their service area. Not sure where, but he researched it online and found a town in Eastern NC that doesn't get Verizon service.

They let him out for free.

[stankowalski]

I'll stick with multitasking on my Pre, but I am getting a 13inch MacBook Pro for college

Yep, I love it. Does the new iPhone have multitasking capability? I think that will be the new standard for future mobile phones.