iPhone

http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-keynote-live/#more-27826

http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/06/09/confirmed-iphone-3g-will-need-to-be-activated-in-store-no-online-ordering/


1) there is no no-contract option of iphone 3G
2) $10 extra data plan that is $240 for 2-year contract

3) Tom-tom said they have GPS software ready to release $50?
4) can do websurf and talk same time since 3G allow data and voice ( when friend called where is near starbucks , go to his point in map and serach and tell him )

5) twice as fast ( web surf) as 2.5G

6) ATT yellowpages.com with GPS enabled ( say starbucks, mcdonald you get shops near by then say directions ..., schools ...) , ATT may sell GPS voiceActivated App as monthly fee $2/month

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9963999-1.html

7) see what ATT execs say

"Less than 20 percent of our customers have integrated devices," Ralph de la Vega, the head of AT&T's mobile business, said during the conference call. "And at the $199 price point we could have mass adoption and put the iPhone in the hands of people who have never surfed the Web on a phone."

What's more AT&T sees iPhone users as highly valuable customers. And executives said that they are willing to make upfront sacrifices to get these customers on their network.

Specifically, iPhone users typically generate more revenue than basic AT&T cellular customers because they use more data services, de la Vega said. And with the new 3G capability and more applications coming to the phone, executives expect that to increase. iPhone users are also more willing to recommend the device to friends and family. And the churn or rate at which they drop the iPhone and the AT&T service is very low compared to customers using other devices.

"The 2G iPhone experience helped us understand what the customer characteristic are likely to be," Rick Lindner, CFO of AT&T said during the call. "These are high value customers."


The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone.
I do have one last thing.…What about developers? [applause]…We've come up with a very sweet solution.…We've got an innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices. Really innovative.…The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. It gives us tremendous capability.…You can write amazing Web 2.0 and AJAX apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services.

Steve Jobs: I’ll give you a concrete example. I love Google Maps, use it on my computer, you know, in a browser. But when we were doing the iPhone, we thought, wouldn’t it be great to have maps on the iPhone? And so we called up Google and they’d done a few client apps in Java on some phones and they had an API that we worked with them a little on. And we ended up writing a client app for those APIs. They would provide the back-end service. And the app we were able to write, since we’re pretty reasonable at writing apps, blows away any Google Maps client. Just blows it away. Same set of data coming off the server, but the experience you have using it is unbelievable. It’s way better than the computer. And just in a completely different league than what they’d put on phones before

iPhone Application Development


Its great news for us that Apple has opened the door to third-party developers to build applications for the first version of iPhone, said Andre Charland, Nitobi co-founder. Building apps on the Safari browser engine is ideal for Ajax developers like us. Its the perfect platform to work from because it allows us to build graceful, easy to use applications for our customers that have the potential to reach millions of iPhone users."