WWDC 2008: iPhone Madness
Jake Bechtold | June 9, 2008
For the first time ever, the Word Wide Developers Conference was booked. Hundreds of Geeks and Media gathered around to hear what Steve Jobs had to say. And here is what we came with.

New iPhone 3G
Announced was a new the iPhone. Branded as the iPhone 3G, it now has 3G technology.
With fast 3G wireless technology, GPS mapping, support for enterprise features like Microsoft Exchange, and the new App Store, iPhone 3G puts even more features at your fingertips. And like the original iPhone, it combines three products in one — a revolutionary phone, a widescreen iPod, and a breakthrough Internet device with rich HTML email and a desktop-class web browser. iPhone 3G.
The new iPhones come in Black and White and in 8GB and 16GB versions. The 8GB iPhone is $199 (Cheaper than an 8GB iTouch) and the 16GB for $299 (also cheaper than a 16GB iTouch). The new iPhone will be a available July 11th.

New iPhone Firmware 2.0
With the new iPhone comes new firmware. The new firmware will support Applications, Enterprise Support and MobileMe Support. The new firmware, also set for July 11th, will be free for current iPhone users, and a $10 upgrade for iPod Touch users (what a rip!).

MobileMe
Also announced today was the replacement for .Mac: MobileMe.
Maybe you have a computer at home, one at work, and an iPhone or iPod touch. And it can be hard to keep them all up to date. But now there’s MobileMe. Wherever you are, your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC is always current and always in sync. And with a suite of elegant new web applications, you can access your data from anywhere.
MobileMe stores all your email, contacts, and calendars on a secure online server — or “cloud” — and pushes them down to your iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, and PC. When you make a change on one device, the cloud updates the others. Push happens automatically, instantly, and continuously. You don’t have to wait for it or remember to do anything — such as docking your iPhone and syncing manually — to stay up to date.
Available at me.com for $99/year and 20GB of on-line storage — 60 day free trial in July 11th. Dot mac (.Mac) is gone.

Mac OS X 10.6: Snow Leopard
Also announced was the new version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard. Not much was said other than it’ll play nice with Microsoft Exchange 2007 from the get-go, provide “unrivaled support for multi-core processors” with a new technology dubbed Grand Central, extend support “for modern hardware with Open Computing Language (OpenCL),” and raise the software limit on system memory up to a theoretical 16TB of RAM. Heck, you’ll even find QuickTime X in there. Developers are starting to work on it and that it should be up for release this time next year.
And that’s it from this week’s WWDC. Everything else you want to know can be found on Apple’s website.