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Here are a few websites and twitter accounts that will be covering WWDC.

Websites Covering WWDC

• AppAdvice
• MacRumorsLive
• Engadget
• CNet
• Gizmodo – I can’t believe Apple letting them in the building

Twitter Accounts Covering WWDC

• MacRumorsLive

Here are some links for to follow Apple’s iPhone OS 4 Live event today

TUAW
Engadget
Gizmodo
MacWorld

I just logged into Apple’s Developer section to download the new iPhone 3.2 SDK and to my surprise there is no build for Leopard, just a build for Snow Leopard. After digging around in the iPhone SDK Release notes I found out that Apple isn’t going to release a build for Leopard.

iPhone SDK 3.2 provides support for developing iPad applications and includes the complete set of Xcode 3.2.2 tools, compilers, and frameworks for creating applications for iPhone OS and Mac OS X. These tools include the Xcode IDE and the Instruments analysis tool among many others.

With this software you can develop applications that run on iPad using the included iPhone Simulator, which runs iPhone OS 3.2. Additionally, you can develop applications for iPhone and iPod touch, which run on iPhone OS 3.1.3. (This software does not include all of the iPhone OS 2.x SDKs.) Installing iPhone SDK 3.2 requires a Macintosh computer running Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard) or later.

This means if you want to write apps for the iPad you will need an Intel Mac and Snow Leopard. I would also assume that this means the new iPhone 4.0 SDK will be the same way.

MacDailyNews is reporting that a leaked AT&T memo talks about iLaunchDay 2009. According to a leaked AT&T memo, the launch day of the iPhone 3GS was the best-ever sales day in the retail store. Here is a list of milestone achieved:

• Best-ever sales day in our retail stores
• Second-largest traffic day in our retail stores
• Most transactions processed via our IT systems in a single day
• Most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day
• Largest order day in att.com history
• Largest features sales day in att.com history

On this year’s launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales recorded on 2008′s iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008 — all heavy-volume sales days. In fact, this year we surpassed 2008′s launch day sales at about noon Central time, and sustained our previous peak hour record, also set in 2008, for 11 straight hours.

Apple and AT&T have sold over 1 million iPhone 3G S models in just 3 days. The ne OS has been downloaded over 6 million time since Wednesday.

CUPERTINO, California—June 22, 2009—Apple® today announced that it has sold over one million iPhone™ 3GS models through Sunday, June 21, the third day after its launch. In addition, six million customers have downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first five days since its release.

Before I upgraded to the new iPhone 3.0 OS I updated my apps and tried to sync it to my iPhone and I got a little surprise. I got a popup stating that 3 of my apps are not compatible with my iPhone. After I upgraded to iPhone 3.0 OS everything is good. All my apps updated just fine. But if you have an iPod Touch and are not planning to install the latest OS make sure to check out your apps before you update them. If you update them they might not work on the older OS.

Apple has released the newest OS and SDK for the iPhone to the world. Got get it while it is hot. Let us know what you think of it. I’ll post a review a little later today.

With the release of iPhone 3.0 OS only a 2 days away Apple has started updating apps in the iTunes Apps Store  with the new ratings for apps. I was looking around in the games section and I found QL Bikini Beach Edition and it is Rated 12+ for “Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity”. Is Apple going to open up the iPhone Apps section and allow Adult type content?

Here is a run down of all the iPhone rumors over the past few weeks. There are a couple rumors about a 4GB iPhone and having 4 models of the iPhone. I hope this becomes a reality. I thinks that the iPhone Market share would double in a less than a year if they did this. One other rumor is that the iPhone is going to have add Parental Controls for Apps. I hope they do this. It would allow Apple to lessen the restriction on the Apps that get submitted. I mean no more rejected apps because you can read the Kama Sutra. Now to the list of rumors.

Hardware and software Rumors Roundup

• iPhone 3.0 OS Release Date: Friday June 12^th – Some site say Monday June 8^th but I think it’s Friday June 12^th.
• iPhone Release Date: July 17^th 2009
• Name: iPhone Video
• 4 Models – 4GB to 32GB
• $99 to $299 price-points

4GB iPhone

• Price: $99
• Not sold in Apple Stores
• 2.0 MP camera
• Video Calling (iChat)
• No GPS or Wi-Fi – I don’t believe that it won’t have Wi-Fi. If it doesn’t have Wi-Fi it isn’t an iPhone.
• Front Facing Camera

8GB, 16GB & 32GB iPhone Hardware Rumors

• 600MHz CPU Speed (up from 400MHz)
• OLED screen
• 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus
• Digital Compass (magnetometer)
• 256MB RAM (up from 128MB)
• New 3G chipset – Enhanced 3G and China network support
• New 802.11n Wi-Fi support
• 1.5X More Battery Life
• Built-in FM Transmitter 
• Nike+ Support and built in App
• Front Facing Camera

Cosmetic Rumors

• Apple logo on the back to light up – I hope this doesn’t happen or I hope you can turn it off
• Speaker relocated – raised up higher
• Rubber-tread backing – Discontinuation of the metal band surrounding the edge of the device
• Sleeker Design
• More Colors - Not sure this is going to happen, I think Apple is stick to the Black and White iPhones
  

Software Rumors

• Video recording & editing capabilities
• Post Videos to YouTube and MobileMe
• HD Video support
• Geo-Location photos in Maps app
• Direct Movie downloads on the iPhone
• Limited background support for Third-Party Apps
• Percentage Battery indicator

Known Software Improvements

• MMS – send Voice recordings, Videos, Images and Music
• Subscription bases apps
• In app purchases
• Peer to peer Conductivity
• Better Accessories Support
• Push Notification
• Cut, Copy and Paste
• Send Multiple Photos in an email
• Landscape keyboard in all iPhone key applications
• Forward and Delete single or multiple SMS messages
• Voice Memos Recording
• Shared Calendars
• Stocks App Improvements
• Search in all iPhone key applications
• Spotlight Search App
• Notes Sync
• Stereo Bluetooth
• Improved Features for Safari
• More Parental Controls
• Turn by Turn Directions
• Over 100 new features in total!!!

WWDC is only 1 day away and there are all kinds of rumors flying around about the next iPhone. There are so many rumors that The Green Room has made a nice little graphic of most of the rumors for the next iPhone. They even give the odds of likeness for each rumored feature is coming.

TRG iPhone Rumor Round Up Graphic

Oh by the way one rumor is that it will be called the “iPhone Video”.