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News Update: Apple's iPhone 4 Screen is Better Than Your Retinas

2:55 Applause
That's the end. Jobs thanks the iPhone 4 team, and wraps it up.
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2:41 iPhone 4 Pricing and Ship Date
$199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB
That means the only 8GB iPhone left is a 3GS model.
Shipping to U.S., France, Germany, U.K. and Japan on June 24th (the rumor was correct).
Two colors, black and white.
In July, shipping to 18 more countries. 24 more in August, and 40 more in September. After that, it will go on sale for the NASA rover currently stations on Mars.
Accessories: Dock for $30. Case--described as a "bumper"--for $30.
iPhone OS4 upgrade plan: the 3GS, and iPod Touch will get the update, and the 3G too with some restrictions.
Upgrade is FREE, starting June 21.
Pre-orders begin a week from tomorrow (June 15).
2:31 One More Thing: Video Chat

Video chat. Name: FaceTime.
(Collective groan here at FC HQ on that name, but it could have been worse--consider: iFace.)
Demo glitch. Jobs: "This never freezes up, so you guys must not have turned off your WiFi." Who us? And hey, doesn't your AT&T 3G signal work reliably enough for a demo?
FaceTime: It will only work with WiFi!
Coming in 2010. "Apple will ship tens of millions of FaceTime devices this year, so there's going to be a lot of people to talk to."


2:22 iAds
Re-hashing what we already know. Jobs: "Emotion plus interactivity."
If iAd is feature number 8, then where is video chat?

Nissan will use iAds to advertise the Leaf -- you can reserve a Leaf with an iAd. App shows how far you can drive on a dollar. And Nissan is giving away a car, through the ad. That's quite an advertisement, you've got to admit.
Look for that ad starting July 1.
Because of the huge installed base, Jobs says Apple is "hoping" to have 48% of the entire mobile display advertising marketing in the second half of 2010. "Some orders already on our books."
2:21 Rumor: iPhone 4 Launch Date is June 24
This is not yet confirmed by Jobs, but that's what we're hearing. Let's see if it pans out.
2:16 iBooks for iPhone

You can now share the book you're reading across different devices for no extra charge (gee thanks, just like the paper version). Also, Amazon and B&N offer the same thing, why is everyone clapping?
Automatically synchronizes bookmarks and notes. Kindle does this as well, I believe. The Notes function is very much like Post-It notes. And you can highlight, copy and paste text.
Reading books on the phone screen is not exactly a pleasure, but that new retina display ought to help a lot.
2:08 iPhone OS 4 Demo
Threaded e-mail conversations, at last! Enterprise integration. (Apple is determined to make this phone work for business, despite all those entertainment apps--Farmville at work, anyone?)
Bing will be added as a search option. Google is still the default, but that's a nice gimme for Microsoft.
"Golden master candidate" going out to developers today.
Data Point: 100 Million iPhone OS devices by the end of this month. That includes all platforms -- iPod Touch, iPad.
2:04 Jobs demands that everyone turn off WiFi for a new demo
Okay, so we're all turning of WiFi .... NOT.
1:59 iMovie App for iPhone 4
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