iPhone 3G’s Call

Confirming months of rumor and speculation, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) Latest News about Apple CEO Steve Jobs marched on stage at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco Monday to unveil a new model of the iPhone.

The new iPhone will run on third-generation, or 3G Latest News about 3G, networks, which offer higher data transfer speeds than the EDGE network New HP LaserJet P4014n Printer Starting at $699 after $100 instant savings. that the original iPhone runs on.

In addition, the new iPhone will sell at the bargain price of US$199 when it goes on sale on July 11. When it first debuted less than a year ago, the original iPhone sold for as much as $599.

The new iPhone also features global positioning system (GPS) technology, which lets users pinpoint their exact location anywhere in the world and integrate that data with a map or a location-based software service.

Mobile Me made its debut at the conference as well. Phil Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide product marketing E-Mail Marketing Software - Free Trial. Click Here., described the service as “[Microsoft] Exchange for the rest of us.”

It allows users to instantly synchronize e-mail, contacts and calendars across multiple devices, all of which will communicate with a central cloud. The service replaces .Mac, offers 20 GB of online storage, and will cost $99 per year.

Deep Discounts

The decrease in the iPhone’s price is likely due to a large subsidy from exclusive iPhone carriers like AT&T (NYSE: T) Latest News about AT&T, according to In-Stat Principal Analyst David Chamberlain.

“[The price decrease] might hurt AT&T in some regards, because somebody’s paying down the price of this,” he told MacNewsWorld. “My guess is that AT&T is the one that’s increased their subsidy — not Apple decreasing their wholesale price. That’s the most likely scenario.”

Still, the price point could work to draw new customers — most of which will come at the expense of competing carriers.

“This is probably more of a play to get even more people signed up,” Chamberlain continued. The timing is probably going to take away more from Sprint (NYSE: S) Latest News about Sprint Nextel and its Samsung Latest News about Samsung Instinct phone.”
Developers’ Day

The iPhone was not the day’s only announcement — indeed, Jobs saved news on the new hardware for the final part of his presentation. The bulk of the keynote focused on the iPhone software and what it means for developers.

Jobs let Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iPhone software, take the wheel during the software developer kit portion of the keynote. The SDK was released in beta last March, and it includes tools that developers can use to create new, native applications they can then sell or give away via Apple’s App Store.

Forstall outlined the utilities available to developers, including Cocoa Touch, a user interface object-oriented framework. “This makes building applications for our full screen touch interface an absolute breeze,” he said.

Also on display were the Xcode tool for writing, editing and debugging code; an Interface Builder; an iPhone Simulator for running programs on a Mac rather than on a test phone; and Instruments, a performance Verio brings something extra to Linux: reliability. Click to learn about free test. optimizer.

Forstall then demonstrated the kit, creating a basic application for finding nearby friends by using location-based services and the user’s own contact list.

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