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Apple unveils new iPhone & More!

I am so excited about these developments that I had to share them as soon as I found out!
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Apple on Monday unveiled a new, faster iPhone, lowered the price on its existing model to $99, and released details of its revamped operating system.

But Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) CEO Steve Jobs did not appear at the company’s World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, where the company presented its products.

Instead, Philip Schiller, the company’s senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, demonstrated the iPhone 3GS, which can perform tasks up to 3.6 times faster than the previous second-generation iPhone, the iPhone 3G.

Apple shares, which were down as much as $5.24 earlier, were $2.07 lower at $142.60 after the presentation.

The iPhone will come in three sizes and prices. The new phone will have a 16-gigabyte model for $199 and a 32-gigibyte version for $299.

Apple will continue to sell a second-generation iPhone 3G with 8 gigabytes of memory for $99 — the cheapest price yet for the device.

The prices are subsidized by AT&T (T, Fortune 500), the exclusive wireless carrier for the phone, for customers signing new contracts.

The new phone also comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera with video capturing and editing capabilities, improved battery life with 5 hours of talk time and 30 hours of audio, voice command control by holding down the home button, and a built-in digital compass.

Snow Leopard: Apple said the new operating system, Snow Leopard, will be available in September and can perform some tasks up to 90% faster than its current Leopard OS. Apple said Snow Leopard is more crash resistant than its predecessor and is 6 gigibytes smaller.

Rival Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) has said its new Windows 7 operating system will be unveiled in October.

Snow Leopard will cost $29 to upgrade from Leopard, which is $100 less than the previous upgrade price.

Apple also unveiled a new, faster Safari Web browser. Safari 4 can track changes in many of the most frequently visited Web sites, and uses the iTunes “cover flow” interaction to scan through browser history.

The company redesigned its Quicktime video viewer and editor, giving users the ability to share video on YouTube, MobileMe or iTunes, which enables playback on the iPhone.

IPhone OS: Apple demonstrated its new operating system for the iPhone, days after after competitor Palm (PALM) launched its much ballyhooed Pre phone.

The new iPhone OS 3.0, which was first unveiled in March, will have cut, copy and paste capabilities for all applications, which iPhone users have long demanded. The operating system will also feature an undo gesture, which will undo the last action by shaking the phone.

Fully integrated search, multimedia text messages and auto-fill for passwords have also been added to the iPhone, though the multimedia text messaging will not be available on AT&T (T, Fortune 500) until later in the summer.

The new OS will allow users to rent and purchase movies right from their phones using iTunes, and it will have parental control functionality.

Some analysts also expect Apple to unveil a new, lower-priced iPhone.

New MacBooks: The new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros will both showcase a 3.06 GHz Intel Core Duo processor, the fastest processor Apple has ever used.

Like the larger 17-inch MacBook Pro, the 15-inch will also feature a new lithium battery that gets up to seven hours of battery life and three times the recharges of most laptops.

The company announced the MacBook air will cost $1,499, a $700 price cut. A 13-inch MacBook Pro will cost $100 less at $1,199, and the the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros will be $300 less expensive at $1,699 and $2,499, respectively.

Jobs, who has been on leave because of illness, is expected to return to work at the end of the month.

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Apple unveils smaller, talking iPod shuffle

Hey Guys,

I don’t know about you, but I like the voice feature on this thing. the price tag is nice too. Read on for more…

pd
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Latest version of the digital music player announces songs, allows users to have multiple playlists.

Apple Inc. introduced a smaller version of its popular iPod Shuffle music player Wednesday with a new feature that announces songs to its user.

The new 4 gigabyte Shuffle is priced at $79 and carries up to 1,000 songs, twice as many as the last generation of Shuffles.

Users can control their songs and playlists from an earphone cord using a new VoiceOver feature, which announces the songs to users in 14 different languages. The feature is particularly useful on the Shuffle as it does not have a display screen like most iPods or other digital music players.

“You previously couldn’t have multiple playlists on the iPod Shuffle because you couldn’t really switch between them as there was no way to know how you would switch,” said Apple vice president of iPod marketing Greg Joswiak in an interview with Reuters. “So now instead of seeing you get to hear.”

The VoiceOver feature works by synchronizing with a user’s iTunes software, which installs a voice kit on the user’s computer. VoiceOver can also tell a user how much battery life remains.

Joswiak said this third generation of iPod Shuffle will be the world’s tiniest music player, smaller than a AA battery and comes in two colors, silver and black.

He said the company will continue to sell the second generation version of the 1 gigabyte, 240-song Shuffle for $49 but phase out the 2 gigabyte Shuffle, which currently sells for $69.

“We are innovating in that sub-$100 space where everybody else is worrying about cutting quarter here and a dime there and we’re trying to bring additional value to our customers,” said Joswiak.

The iPod music player has been widely credited with playing an important role in the revival of Apple’s (AAPL, Fortune 500) fortunes. The company has sold more than 200 million iPods since they launched in 2001. It launched the first Shuffle in January 2005.

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Report: Apple has cornered the flash memory market

One advantage of selling gazillions of MP3 players — most of them stuffed with flash memory — is that it gives you a lot of leverage in the chip market.

Apple (AAPL) is using that leverage to full advantage as it prepares to launch its next generation iPhone, according to a report published Wednesday in AppleInsider. The company is “inhaling” supplies of memory components, the report says, causing spot shortages and raising the price of flash memory for everyone else.

The assertion that Apple is buying up memory to put in new iPhones is speculative. However, given that sales of iPods are falling, it’s hard to imagine what else the company would do with all that flash.

Citing a ThinkEquity Partners report on the state of the chip market, AppleInsider’s Prince McLean writes that Apple has purchased Samsung’s entire available supply of NAND flash memory — the kind used in both newer iPods and iPhones — putting the chipmaker on allocation until April 2009. Samsung is the No. 1 producer of NAND flash, producing more than 40% of the world’s supply.

“Apple’s position in selling tens of millions of iPods gives it the ability to cherry pick components at prices many competitors can’t match,” writes McLean. “Apple has specifically noted favorable component pricing as a key factor in the company’s profitability over the last several quarters.”

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