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So you guys wonder what’s going on with the iPhone’s SDK Stevie announced in October.
The countdown has started, 15 days to go before the SDK release (hopefully!).
It has been rumored that some Developers already received the famous SDK to prepare
their applications and that it will only run under the new firmware “1.1.4 Alpha 2″.

So its clear the SDK won’t run on lower firmwares than 1.1.4.
Smart from the dev team to keep their 1.1.3 jailbreak secret until the 1.1.4 release!
With the new jailbreak and unlocks methods out there, we can except a new bootloader
in the 1.1.4 iPhone firmware. Something that will lock down our iPhones for a few months
until someone founds a way to jailbreak and unlock.

It’s time to buy your stock of 113 unlockable iPhones, 15 more days to go…

Do not upgrade yet ! Jailbreaking may work, but not unlocking…

Here is my script if you want to explore the content of 114 filesystem disk
and ramdisk: here

The script will download the new firmware and mount the disk images.

What’s new ?

- Bug fix sms app
- Better Camera software
- Better Bluetooth support
- Better network reception
- Safari tabs keep their content

Today, at 10:00AM(-8:00GMT), Steve Jobs will start his keynote and unveil new products. There is not that much more time to wait. Here in San Francisco, it is very sunny, not a cloud in the sky, and about 65ºF. Even before the keynote, we know he is going to mention something about the iPhone:

Same goes for many more countries, including Taiwan and Singapore.

I will post updates here as I hear about them.
-Snow Leopard confirmed, but it's getting shown after lunch
-Super Monkey Ball available on AppStore for $9.99, it has 110 levels. We still haven't gotten to any new products yet.


-New App: eBay, view your auctions, bid on watched auctions, and see if you've been bid out.


-Cro-Mag Rally and Enigmo: these were my two favorite games when I was younger, and they look great!



-Band from Moo Cow Music: it looks exactly like the app for jailbroken iPhones:


-For AIM: Apple will maintain a persistent IP connection to the phone, where a 3rd party server can ping Apple's notification service to your device. It can push badges, sounds, and custom textual alerts (like how SMSs look).

-Steve sez "Isn't that fantastic? This is going to be great. In addition... we've got a few new features. The first one: contact search. Type in a few chars, instantly find who you're looking for. Second? Full iWork document support -- Pages, Numbers, and of course, Keynote. Great way to look at your iWork docs on the go. And we've completed MS Office support: Word, Excel, and now PowerPoint, too."

-If the App is less than 10MB, it can be downloaded over the cell network, otherwise it's WiFi.

-mobileme exists. "It's like Exchange for the rest of us." Change a contact? Gets pushed up to MobileMe, down to all other device. "The best part of this, it works over the air. Everything is up to date." Includes calender, mail, contacts, iDisk, photos. MobileMe replaces .Mac.

-"Today w'ere introducing the iPhone 3g." "Improved audio, it's really, really great... and it feels even better in your hand, if you can believe it." "Flush headphone jack." "Solid metal buttons, the same gorgeous 3.5-inch display, camera" Less expensive. "If we compare this to WiFi, we'll see 3G approaches WiFi speeds. We're also really proud that we're doing this with great battery life -- standby time is 300 hours." "Location services is going to be a really big deal on the iPhone -- you saw a bit of that here today, it's going to explode. We get location from celltowers, from WiFi, and now we get it from GPS." So that's A-GPS. "We can actually do tracking.""So great performance, great battery life. Now, one other thing that benefits from fast data is GPS -- we've built that into GPS." The crowd roars. "Browsing, 5-6 hours of high speed browsing. Video - 7 hours, audio - 24 hours."
-Black and white colors, 8gb for $199 and 16Gb for $299. July 11th.

As expected, the 3G iPhone 2.0 has been released today, 9th June 2008 at the World Wide Developer Conference Keynote in San Francisco.

Apple users world-wide have been watching the event using live chats, or will watch the event soon. Apple will publish a video with a record of the entire WWDC Keynote tonight.

The new iPhone includes 3G network support, enterprise support, third party application support, more countries & it’s more affordable! Apple has learned a lot with the first iPhone. They have used their experiences to create the iPhone 3G. It’s thinner, has a black plastic back, solid metal buttons, same gorgeous display, camera, flush headphone jack, and dramatically improved audio!

The iPhone 2.0 Software will contain several new features. It has contact search with live-searching and full iWork document support. It also comes with complete support for Office Documents, such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint. It containts bulk delete & move for messages and has the ability to save images.

A new calculator with scientific mode when you rotate the iPhone has been added, as well as parental controls and tremendous language support.

iPhone improvements

3G means faster data downloads, which is excellent for applications such as Safari and Mail. Comparing download speeds between 3G and EDGE proves that 3G is a great enhancement. 3G finished the test in 21 seconds. EDGE finished in 59 seconds, hence it is 2.8x faster. When compared to other 3G phones such as the Nokia N95 or Treo 750, the 3G iPhone is 36% faster and better looking. An email attachment download took 5 seconds to download on 3G and 18 seconds on EDGE - 3 seconds on WiFi.

3G also has excellent battery life on the iPhone. 300 hours of standby, 2G talk-time now has 10 hours, 5 hours of 3G talk-time (most phones only have 3 hour 3G talk time), 5 to 6 hours of high-speed browsing, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio!

GPS has been included in the iPhone 2.0. The iPhone can use data from cell towers, WiFi networks and now GPS. With GPS it can do tracking. A pulsating dot is moving across the Google map as a car drives down Lombard street.

Enterprise support is fully built-in.

Mobile Me

It works like ActiveSync. Push email, contacts, and calendars. Everything is up-to-date, wherever you are.

Everything stays in sync between iPhone, Mac, and PC. Data gets synched automatically both ways. It works over the air. Changes are displayed immediately. It has support for Mail.app, iCal, and Address Book on Mac, and Outlook on Windows.

Mobile Me includes incredible Web 2.0 applications to provide a desktop-like experience on the web to work with all of the data. The address will be me.com.

A 60-day free trial will be available along with the iPhone 2.0 software in early July. MobileMe replaces .mac - The current subscribers will automatically be upgraded. The price is $99 annually.

You can watch the guided tour here.

New native Applications

Mail

The new Mail app allows panes to be resized, multiple messages to be selected like a real application, and to quick reply in-line.

Contacts

The new Contacts app incorporates lists, live search, and Google map integration.

Calendar

The calendar includes the typical day, week, and month views. Color coding and drag & drop events is supported as well.

Gallery

Allows the user to drag & drop as well as live thumbnail scaling like in iPhoto.

iDisk

Allows files to be sent to people right through the app. It includes over-the-air functionality with MobileMe. Pushed emails appear immediately on the iPhone as well as the web interface. Contacts which have been created via the iPhone will show up on the web interface. It has great support for meetings. A meeting can be added through the web-based calendar and appears immediately on the iPhone. Within seconds of making an adjustment to the calendar entry through the web interface, the update appears on the phone.

Price

Now on to the affordability. The first iPhone started at $599 for the 8GB version. The current price is $399.

The iPhone 3G 8GB will sell for only $199. The 16GB model will sell for $299 . A white version of this size will be available too!

It will be available July 11th in 22 countries. The rollout will occur in countries such as in China, Japan, Australia, etc., 70 countries total, in the next few months.

The price for the new firmware is free in early July for all iPhone owners and costs $9.95 for iPod Touch owners.