yesturday apple made some new annoucements at their worldwide developer conference keynote about some of their upcoming products. you can watch the full presentation here.
they started out with some new macbook updates adding an sd card, firewire 800 (the apple fans cheer at the weirdest things, this was one of them lol), better screen, better battery and some other stuff. after that a guy with an annoying accent showed off some of the new features from their next major operating system update snow leopard. most of it looked pretty sweet and i still think mac os x leopard is the best operating system around at the moment so i'm looking forward to the update. snow leopard is due out in september and apple is only charging $29 to upgrade to it, which will make it extremely hard for microsoft to compete with windows 7 (unless it's a free upgrade from vista - which it should be anyway cos vista's just shit).
after that they moved on to show off the features of the new iphone 3.0 software which adds loads of new features for all iphone's and ipod touch's. they're finally adding copy & paste, a landscape keyboard in all text entry apps and tethering to your computer to use your iphone as a modem to get online wherever you are. one of the features i was most impressed with was the 'find my iphone' service for if you lose your iphone - check it out:
then the big annoucement that the apple fan boys were waiting for - a new iphone called the iphone 3gs (the s stands for speed). time to get my bullet points out, aww yeah! new features include:
- an upgraded camera - still only 3.2mp tho, but the pics they showed off did look pretty good.
- video recording - with ability to upload straight to youtube.
- all the insides have been upgraded to increase speed all round.
- built in compass - so the iphone can rotate maps to the direction your facing.
- voice control - allows you to give your iphone voice commands to phone people, play songs, etc.
- available in 16gb and 32gb versions.
- and it's the same size as the iphone 3g.
the iphone 3gs does seem cool but i don't think they've upgraded enough to warrent me paying for a whole new contact when alot of the features are still coming to my iphone 2g with the 3.0 firmware - but then it took me a while to come round to the iphone in the first place, but now i'll buy almost anything if it's shiney and made by apple:
