Apple WWDC 2008 started almost 2 hours ago with an opening keynote by Steve and until now we have seen quite a lot of news and photo updates related to iPhone Firmware 2.0 apps, features and the new iTunes App Store.
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As for the interesting news, Steve has announced that iPhone Firmware 2.0 will be available for download in early July, free for iPhone users , $9.99 for iPod Touch owners.
Following are the new unique features of iPhone 2.0.
iPhone 2.0 Features
- Fantastic Asian Language Support
- Contact search with Live searching
- iWord document support
- Support for Office documents (Word, Excel, and now PowerPoint)
- Bulk delete and move messages
- Ability to save images from email or Safari
- Calculator with scientific mode in Landscape orientation
- Parental Controls
Some of the new paid and free apps that were showcased during the keynote are:
iPhone 2.0 Apps
- Super Monkey Ball Game by Sega.
- eBay for iPhone.
- Loopt, a location-aware social network.
- TypePad, to blog or send in photos.
- Mobile News Network, gathers news content from nearby sources.
- Enigmo, a physics-based game.
- Cro-Mag Rally, a 3D racing game.
- Band, virtual piano, drums and guitar app for iPhone.
- 2 Medical-based apps.
- Digital Legends, an amazing looking 3D fantasy adventure game.
And of course more apps will be coming soon in the iTunes App Store in Firmware 2.0. Stay tuned for more!
Saad Hamid is a tech enthusiast from Pakistan who started this blog in 2007.
11:45 am - The iPhone 3G 8GB will sell for… $199.
11:43 am - That rollout will occur over the coming few months.
11:43 am - China, Japan, Australia, etc. 70 countries total.
via http://www.macrumorslive.com/
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Now, our DJ can get us the list of those countries? Pakistan included?
Yeh rite! not even in the next 10 coming years lol
3G is too advanced for Pakistan
But one thing will happen: the price for the unlocked iphone 8gb will be less or around 20K.
The new iphone is great, 3G and GPS built-in wow.
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