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For those who haven’t, check out the Engadget LiveBlog and Popular Mechanics LiveBlog of the Keynote from WWDC.

Apple showed many demos of programs that have been developed on the iPhone with the SDK, and they also introduced a service similar to Microsoft-exchange, but geared more towards the consumer than enterprise.

But what everyone was sitting on the edge of their seats for was details on the the new iPhone.

Image from Engadget

An iPhone with 3G and GPS for under $200? GPS makers, PDA makers, Smartphone makers, the Windows Mobile team, portable media player makers must all be shitting themselves. (more…)

Anyone who has a large music collection, has a lot of music with tags, wrong tags, or a lack of tags tries to fix that. So what do you do? You try to find the right tags for the music on the internet, right?

iTunes makes this a massive pain in the ass. As in, fucking yourself up the ass with a spiked pike painful.

There’s no option to get iTunes to auto-tag your music, well actually I don’t know, but you definitely need an iTunes account to get the album art working (more…)

In addition to a 3G iPhone release in early June, the 2.5G model could have a “minor casing change” and a price drop to between US$299 and $349, compared to the current $399, wrote Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, in a research report.

I heard that it’s going to be 3 mm thinner, yay!

The iPhone 2.0 software provides enterprise applications to iPhones, including push e-mail support through the Microsoft Exchange mail server. It also includes an SDK (software developer kit) for developers to write iPhone applications.

Yahoo News

I, for one, would care more if Apple quits being selfish and open up the iPhone for developers, the “iPhone software store” essentially is a iron gauntlet that only lets programs that Apple permits to be installed on the iPhone. I’m not even going to start on the monopoly and privacy issues. People may argue that the “iPhone Software Store” is worth it due to the money Apple has in funding for programs and that it is an easy way for developers to release their software and generate a return. But the thing is, nothing is stopping Apple from having the software store and let third part developers install programs through their own means, and not the software store. Developers can still choose to release their programs through Apple, but you also have the open software delivery through the internet.

Hmm, the thing is. Apple couldn’ve released the iPhone with Edge domestically in the US and another version with 3G internationally. I think Apple just wants Mo’ money, by profiting off the first version from the first version and people who can’t wait, and again with the 3G version. Probably the same reason that the iPods don’t come with FM radio, so that Apple can profit from it later.

That said, I’m still more likely going to buy an iPhone rather than a Windows Mobile 6 PDA.

Anyway, geometric series awaits.

Omgomgomgomg, 3G iPhone!

I’m not an Apple fan boy, but I want to be.

AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega just dropped some meaty bits. He had mentioned earlier in the event that he expected all of their smart integrated devices to be 3G in the next couple months. Sascha Segan from PC Mag asked it that included the iPhone. De la Vega responded, “Let me repeat what I said: I think that you’re going to see our integrated devices be 3G devices in the not-too-distant future, and I mean months. That should be clear enough.”

Gizmodo

Hmm, does he mean release just for the US? Meh, but yay! There’s a 3G iPhone out there, well, coming out.

Walk Mossberg also said in an embedded video on Gizmodo that the 3G iPhone is “coming out in 60 days”, so that mean June 4!