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Today was Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, and they unveiled secret features for the upcoming iPhone 3.0, and unveiled the new iPhone 3G S. There were many new features in 3.0 that weren’t discussed at the preview keynote in March. (You can see the other features in 3.0 from our previous post about the March event here.)

New 3.0 Features

iTunes – You can now rent and purchase movies, TV shows, music videos, audio books, and support for iTunes U has been added.

Parental Controls – Much more support for moderation in parental controls. Now includes settings for allowing of In App Purchase, and playing of music, podcasts, movies, TV shows, and App Store apps based on their rating.

Tethering – If your carrier supports it, you can tether your iPhone’s cell phone internet connection for use on your computer where you don’t have a WiFi connection available. Works with Mac or PC via USB or wirelessly via Bluetooth.

Safari – Speed improvements, speed improvements, speed improvements. Support for HTTP streaming audio and video added, with bandwidth detection and adjusting of quality based on it. You can also now autofill usernames and passwords to websites. Filling in contact information in web forms can also be auto filled using data from your contacts. Also has HTML 5 support.

Languages – Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Korean, Thai, and more have been added. Over 30 languages now supported total.

Find My iPhone – If you are a MobileMe customer and have lost your iPhone, you can login to MobileMe and see a map showing the location of your iPhone. You can also optionally send a text alert to the iPhone saying it is missing, and the phone will start beeping (which will still play even if your phone was in silent mode). Or, if your phone was stolen, you can do a remote wipe to remove all data on the device.

No other new features mentioned in the keynote for 3.0. The new iPhone 3G S was also unveiled. Below are the new features that will be on this device only. The S stands for speed, and this iPhone has the same outside design as the iPhone 3G, but much difference hardware on the inside.

iPhone 3G S Features

• Speed improvements! – Launching Messages 2.1x faster, loading SimCity 2.4x faster, viewing Excel attachments are 3.6x faster, and loading NY Times in Safari is 2.9x faster. Note: these are speeds against the 3.0 software, which is already faster than before. On average, the entire phone is 2x faster.
• OpenGL|ES 2.0 – Now support for OpenGL|ES 2.0 for game developers.
• 3G speed improved – Now 7.2 Mbps.
• Camera improvements! – Now 3 megapixel, auto-focus camera! Use tap-to-focus to focus on any object. Also has auto exposure, auto brightness adjusting, and auto white balance adjusting. Nighttime sensitivity for better lighting at night. Take a photo of something as close as 10 centimeters away.
• VIDEO RECORDING! – You can now record 30 fps VGA video with audio which also has auto focus, auto white balance, and auto exposure. You can even edit and trim your video. You can even share the video via email, MMS, MobileMe, or upload it directly to YouTube. App Store apps can also take advantage of this new recording.
• Voice Control – Hold down the home button from any app and a voice control screen appears. Say “Call John Appleseed” to call him. Or “Dial (phone number)”. You can also control your iPod and say something like, “Play songs by the Killers”, or “Play playlist Workout”, or “What’s playing?”, or even tell it to play more songs like this to automatically generate a Genius playlist from that song.
• Compass – Shows you longitude, latitude, and what direction is north. Integrated with Maps app. After finding your location in Maps, tap the screen to adjust the map to the direction you’re facing.
• Accessibility:
  • Voice Over – Reads any selected text aloud.
  • Zoom – You can zoom into the screen/icons to see it better.
  • Invert Screen – Inverts the colors of your iPhone’s screen.
  • Mono Audio – Option to have mono audio come through either side of the headphones.
• Nike+ – Just like iPod Touch 2G’s Nike+. Works with a Nike+ adapter.
• Data Encryption – All data and iTunes sync backups are now encrypted.
• Improved battery life – Internet is now 3 hours more life, 3 hours more video, 6 more hours of audio, 2 hours more 2G talk time, and no improvements on 3G talk time.

The iPhone 3G S is $199 (16GB), and the iPhone 3G S 32 gigabyte will be $299. The original iPhone 3G has been taken down to $99 (8 GB), and this pricing will take affect today. iPhone 3.0 will be released on June 17th, and iPhone 3G S will be on June 19th in the U.S. and a few other countries.

Whoo hoo!

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