WWDC: New iPhone, a price reduction, 3G support and ignore the Russian market

WWDC (Apple Worldwide Developers Conference) - one of the most important events for Apple. The company will hold a conference, which features the latest technology and software. For example, in 2005 it was declared a transition to the x86 platform, announced in 2006, Time Machine, Boot Camp, in the last year reported on Safari output for Windows...

The opening of WWDC was held under the sign of iPhone. Much has been said about how this wonderful product (90 percent of consumers are satisfied with the purchase, the majority of uses 10 or more functions of the machine, etc.), tells the story of iPhone 2.0, about support for 3G, it has been demonstrated different application. Of particular interest are the game, largely due to the use of the accelerometer, and 3D. Their applications have shown blogohosting TypePad loopt and social network news agency Associated Press. Highlighted the ease of development and speed porting.

Some programs for the iPhone surprised. For example, Kooaba combines visual recognition and search. How it works:

The iPhone came easy to search for contacts and support for working with Word documents, Excel and PowerPoint (iWork it goes without saying) .Pokazali developers and service Mobile Me, through which users will synchronize mail, contacts, calendar events between any devices. So in the iPhone, and Macbook, PC and you will be the actual data. An annual subscription will cost hundreds of dollars. For the money you get 20 GB prostranstva.iPhone became one of the foundations of Apple's business. Pogue (Pogue) went even further: «Windows... Mac OS X... iPhone».

But WWDC Russians brought more disappointment - no official shipments in Russia will continue. This is especially disappointing when you consider that the iPhone will be sold in the Baltic States, Poland, a large number of African countries.

Apple has significantly reduced the cost of the phone. The most affordable model will cost $ 199 now. However, expect a collapse in prices on unlocked phones are not worth it. Previously, iPhone customers with AT & T contract can activate it at home. Now, the activation is carried in stores immediately:

AT & T (T) said that in the U.S., you'll have to activate your new phone immediately

It remains to hope for the Baltic states, Poland and Finland. Perhaps there things will be different.

Became known the first details about the new version of OS X. The rumors were confirmed, with the name guessed - Snow Leopard (Snow Leopard). The Snow Leopard is a new technology of Grand Central, which will allow developers to more effectively take advantage of multicore processors. will native support Microsoft Exchange in Mail, Address Book, iChat. Snow Leopard will support up to 16 terabytes of storage. But in general, a high-profile innovations of interest to simple users, should not be expected - the developers focus on the speed of the OS, and will lay the foundation for further development of OS X.

View video from WWDC can here (A download from TBP).