11:49am PDT
Conference has ended

11:47am PDT
Rollout on July 11th at the same time across all countries they sell in. Will be sold in 70 countries in the next couple of months.

11:45am PDT
iPhone 3G will sell for $199.00 for the 8GB version. $299.00 for the 16GB model.

11:38am PDT
300 hours or standby talk time. 10 hour talk time in 2.5G. 5 hours of 3G talk time as compared to 3 hours for competitors. 7 hours of video playback and 24 hours of audio playback time.
Also includes GPS support. ACTUAL GPS support via built in chipset. Now they can do tracking.

11:36am PDT
3G iPhone is 36% faster than the Nokia N95 and the Treo 750 with better rendering. iPhone WiFi took 17 seconds to load a page and 21 seconds using 3G. 3G is approaching WiFi speeds on mobile devices.

11:33am PDT
All plastic back. Same 3.5" display. Flush headphone jack. 3G support.

11:30am PDT
What is needed to take the iPhone to more countries
1 - 3G
2 - Enterprise support
3 - Third Party Apps
4 - Sell iPhone in more countries
5 - More affordable
iPhone 3G is announced. Taking it to the next level.

11:30am PDT
It is almost the 1yr birthday for the iPhone. 90% customer satisfaction. 98% are mobile browsing. 94% are using e-mail. 90% are using SMS. 80% are using 10 or more features. 6MM iPhones sold in the first year.

11:27am PDT
Mobile Me is $99/yr that includes 20GB of online storage. What about .Mac? Mobile Me replaces .Mac. You can continue to use .Mac services and .Mac address, but will be automatically upgraded to Mobile Me.

11:18am PDT
Drag and drop web based e-mail. Contact search available. Start typing in letters and as you type real-time results appear. Drag and drop calendar to move meetings around. Everything is kept in sync with the iPhone. Create a contact on the iPhone and it synced with Mobile Me in about a second. Works the other way too. Create a calendar event on Mobile Me and it will push down to the phone. Happened in about a second there too.

11:14am PDT
Mobile Me has a set of Web 2.0 tools built on the latest AJAX technology. Me.com is the web front end (not live yet). Keeps everything in sync, pictures, documents, everything.

11:14am PDT
Phil Schiller is coming up to talk about Mobile Me. It's like having Exchange for the rest of us. Not all of us use Exchange server, but we would like to have synced contacts, calendar and e-mail. Updated wherever you are. Mobile Me stores your info in the cloud. You can get to it anywhere: Mac, PC or iPhone. Pushes info up and down keeping everything in sync. Works over-the-air.

11:12am PDT
An enterprise can authorize a set of iPhones and install apps on just those iphones. A way to add custom enterprise grade apps to iPhones without needing to distribute through app store.

11:10am PDT
Developers keep 70% of revenues. Apple verifies the apps to ensure they are secure. If developers want to give them away for free there is no charge whatsoever. Now going to be in 62 countries. If your app is 10MB or less the user can download it over Cellular, WiFi or iTunes. If it is larger than 10MB then it can only be downloaded on WiFi or iTunes.

11:08am PDT
2.0 update will be free for iPhone users and $9.99 to iPod Touch users in early July.

11:05am PDT
Steve is back and talking new features in the SDK
1 - Contact Search
2 - iWork Document Support
3 - Office Document support, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Also added bulk delete and move. Also the ability to save images available in e-mail to your image gallery. Scientific calculator. Added parental controls... Teenagers may not like this :) Added a lot of language support.

11:00am PDT
Scott Forstal is back. 1 feature requested is background notifications. Need to get alerts even when the application is not running. The wrong solution is to allow background processes, or to allow an app to continue to run even after a user thinks they have quit. This is bad due to battery life and performance. They are going to have a push notification service available to all developers. There will be a persisted IP connected maintained between the Phone and 3rd party server. You can push 3 types of notifications: Custom Alert Sounds, Texutal and Badges... It all works over the air WiFi and Cellular. This will be available in September. That's the SDK update.

10:54am PDT
Xavier Carrillo from Digital Legends in Barcelona, Spain only started on the iPhone SDK 2 weeks ago. They are brand new to this platform. Built a 3D adventure game in 4 days from the Mac. Will be fully ready in September.

10:54am PDT
Mark Cain from MIMvista is now showing medical imaging software that a doctor can have on their iPhone. They can analyze and provide opinions from the golf course. Very active use of the touch screen. Full control over the medical images, contract, slice control, etc. They have taken a complex desktop application and placed it in the place of the hand of doctors and patients.

10:51am PDT
Dr. S. Mark Williams from Modality is up next. This is medical learning software. They used the iPhone SDK to create an app that is more portable and powerful than flash cards. Has a quiz mode that prompt the user to find things and gives immediate feedback. Designed for effective learning outside the classroom. They are also announcing that they have have a dozen apps available at the release of the 2.0 software and many more by the end of the year.

10:48am PDT
Jeremy Schoenherr from MLB.com is showing off MLB.com for iPhone... You can see who is on base, who is batting, pitching, etc. They took advantage of the iPhone media player to take advantage of real-time highlights. They create QT Reference movies on the fly to ensure you get the best experience, either on EDGE or WiFi.

10:46am PDT
Mark Terry is a solo developer from England who has written an app called Band. A music creation application. Crowd loved this one! Very fun.

10:42am PDT
Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software. They have ported 2 games from Mac OS X. Showing off CPU intensive games. They like the CPU in the iPhone. First game is Enigmo and the second is Cro-Mag Ralley which is a 3d racing game. They use the accelerometer on the iPhone as the controller.

10:39am PDT
Benjamin Mosse from AP is demoing Mobile News Net. Location based news. Location based services seem to be huge here! Get your local news based on your location. You can also watch breaking video from their news network. Community contributed news now available from the iPhone. All developed in a "few weeks". They are already working on more exciting ideas.

10:36am PDT
Michael Sippey from TypePad is up next. Mobile Blogging on the iPhone. Upload pictures or add to your blog posts.

10:34am PDT
Sam Altman from Loopt is a location-aware social networking app that is working with Virtual Earth for mapping. Interesting since Google Maps are what is built in to the device naively. This app will be free on the iPhone.

10:30am PDT
Ken Sun from eBay is up next. Showing off auctions from the iPhone via a native eBay app. They decided to create the app 5 weeks ago. Has easy access to search, summary of activities and watching items. Buyers and sellers can easily see who is winning or losing. Bidding is of course available as well. App will be free.

10:27am PDT
Developers invited up to stage to show off the apps they have created. Sega is up first with Super Monkey Ball. Created 110 stages in 8 weeks as well as all 4 of the classic monkeys. App will be $9.99.

10:21am PDT
Scott Forstal is showing how to build an application called Nearby Friends. It will use the location APIs and AddressBook APIs to find all of your friends that are within a 10 mile radius.

10:15am PDT
SDK presentation from Scott Forstal
Rehashing what we learned at the iPhone SDK event... iPhone is based on OS X, share APIs, etc., etc., etc.

10:10am PDT
There have been 250k downloads of the SDK so far
There are 25k paid developers
Snow Leopard
iPhone 2.0
35% of fortune 500 companies participated in beta of iPhone 2.0
Top 5 banks as well

Video Stream Available
And because you simply can't stop social media, we now have a live video stream available from inside the hall, brought to us by Yahoo! Live.

Audio Stream Available
Our engineers have lost Internet connection, but the wonderful people behind Ustream.tv and iPhone Alley have made an audio stream of the keynote available. Enjoy!

9:36am CDT Question of the day: what's faster EDGE or WWDC WiFi?

8:55am PDT
WWDC swag: laptop bag and a t-shirt. Come on Apple, you can do better! (I have no doubt this engineer wants a free iPhone, HA!)

8:34am PDT
MacBook pro $2,000... iPhone $400... WWDC pass $1300. Standing in line for 4 hours to see Steve - priceless.

8:30am PDT
Lose badge, go home. Attendee badges are not replacable. All information (with the exception of the Keynote) is confidential. Apparently we agreed to an NDA when we signed up.

8:28am PDT
First windows notebook spotted.

8:26am PDT Live from Apple's WWDC 2008. Waiting in line for the keynote. The line that spanned 3 city blocks started forming some time around 12am of this morning. Overall everyone is very civilized. Very little line cutting so far, but we have seen some sprinters on open spaces.

7:10am PDT The line to enter the keynote started in the wee hours of the morning and is now over 3 city blocks long!