• $199 for 16 GB in U.S. – $299 for 32GB version (on contract of course)
  • pricing only available to new AT&T customers
  • $700 Upgrade fee for current AT&T iPhone users
  • [June 10 Update: Rogers has announced that Canadian pricing will be the same as U.S. pricing – in Cdn $. So, $199 and $299 Cdn for the 16 and 32 GB units respectively. Only available on 3 year contracts again. No pricing for un-subbed units announced – un-subbed 3G iPhones still cannot be purchased in Canada. 8-GB, 3G Units will be decreased to $99. No word on 16GB units]
• Available June 19 (U.S. & Canada)
• $99 for prior 16 GB iPhone
• “up to” two times Faster
• Voice Control:
  • voice dialing
  • ask iPhone what song is playing and it will tell you
  • tell iPhone to play a song, or songs by an artist or a playlist and it will play it
  • developers can integrate into any app

• Does Video & Video Editing: at 30 fps at VGA resolution

• 3.0 Megapixel Camera
  

  

• Built in Digital Compass
• Battery Life improving – 9 hours wifi, 12 hours 2G talk-time, 5 hour 3G talk-time – 10 hours movie – 30 hours for video

• Seamless PC Tethering supported (including in Canada)
• Tom Tom turn by turn navigation app available (price & date not yet announced)

• Supports 7.2 Mbps HSDPA to support next gen wireless

See also:

• Apple’s WWDC 2009 Keynote Address video
• iPhone 3Gs Guided Tour
• Official Apple iPhone 3Gs page

More Info:

• Apple Insider
• ars technica
• CrunchGear
• Engadget
• Gdgt
• Gizmodo

• New 3G iPhone: “Twice the speed, half the price” – Details on U.S. Apple Website here (Canadian details here)
• Launching on July 11: in Canada (on Rogers and Fido networks) and 23 other new countries  
• 3G Speeds Approaching wifi Speeds: U.S. details here (Canadian details here)
• Lower Pricing  (U.S. pricing – hardware price identical in Canada)
  • $199 for 8MB iPhone (to put this in context the 8MB iPhone launched at $599 just last year and was $399 up to today )
  • $299 for 16GB
  • $30/ month for U.S. Consumers AT&T unlimited data plan (on top of voice contract).
  • $45/month for U.S. Business Users.
  • [June 28 Update: Disappointing Canadian tiered data plan announced – see details)
• Built in GPS: Satellite GPS supplemented by data from cell towers. U.S. details here (Canadian details here)
• Increased Battery Life:
  • 300 hours (6 weeks) standby
  • 24 hours audio (music/podcasts)
  • 7 hours video
  • 5-6 hours 3G surfing
  • 5 hours 3G talk (10 hours 2G talk)
  • no GPS battery details yet

• New iPhone 2.0 software coming in July. Existing users update details here. More Details here and here
• MobileMe Service: $99 per year (incl. 20GB online storage). Wireless auto email, contacts, calendar, photo syncing across phone, desktop (including PC and Outlook) and web (at me.com) without having to sync in cradle. Watch tour here Dale’s Note: Most of this Google already does with iPhone for free
• Picture Geotagging: Producing geocoded digital photographs
• New Apps:  U.S. details here (Canadian details here)
• New App Store in September – Unlimited number of third party apps. 10 MB app downloads wirelessly (larger apps available over wifi or iTunes).  Unified global (62 countries) apps store (not segregated by country like music and movies are). Developers set price. Apple keeps 30%. Free apps distributed for free – U.S. details here  (Canadian details here)
• Enterprise Support: Integration with Microsoft Exchange and much better Enterprise support. Enterprise can push apps to all their users – U.S. details here (Canadian details here)
• All black with silver trim (white version available).
• Plastic Casing: to provide theoretical better voice/data reception than prior metallic casing
• Tiny bit thicker than prior iPhone – thinner edges
• Flush headphone jack
• Includes Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), UMTS / HSDPA,  GSM / EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR
• SIM ejector

What wasn’t announced:

• No front-facing camera for video chats
• No tactile keyboard
• No new iPods, AppleTV or Macs
• No new iPod Touch price (surely it won’t be more expensive than 3G iPhone?)

More Pics and Details here: Engadget | Gizmodo | Mac Rumours | CrunchGear

Canada’s national television network, Global, is now broadcasting in HD in the Metropolitan Toronto and Golden Horseshoe areas of Ontario on their Hamilton (CHCH) and Toronto (CIII) affiliates. Global is Canada’s last major nationwide network to start broadcasting in HD. It was facing a June 2008 hard deadline imposed by the CRTC to begin broadcasting. It had missed previous CRTC-imposed deadlines.

Global (CHCH on 11-1 and CIII on 41-1) follows CTV (CFTO on 9-1), CBC (CBLT on 5-1), CityTV (on 57-1), SunTV (on 66-1), Omni1 (CFMT), Omni2 (CJMT) and CRC (CBC French) all of which had been broadcasting in HD for some time. TV Ontario is not yet broadcasting in HD.

Depending on their southern exposure, Torontonians can also expect to receive ABC (WKBW on 7-1), CBS (WIVB on 4-1), NBC (WGRZ on 2-1), Fox (WUTV on 29-1), PBS (WNED on 43-1), Think Bright (on 43-3),  CW (WNLO on 23-1), RTN (retro TV on 7-2) and other U.S. networks broadcasting in HD from up-state New York.

All these channels are available free to anyone in Metro Toronto that has an inexpensive UHF antenna and an HDTV or other settop box with an ATSC tuner (a.k.a. HDTV tuner). Many HDTVs have ATSC tuners built in as do TiVo HD and TiVo Series 3 units.

TiVo HD and TiVo Series 3 owners in the Greater Toronto area can use their TiVo’s to tune and record from most, or all, of these HD stations so long as they enter zip-code 14174 (from Youngstown New York) when setting up their TiVos. This minor work-around is needed because TiVo’s guide data provider, Tribune, does not yet provide HD broadcast info using Canadian postal codes. There is also one outstanding problem using TiVos to record from CBC – which I document here). (For more info on using TiVo HD and Series 3 units in Canada, click here)

A complete list of Global programming can be viewed here.  A short list of Global programming includes: 24,  Big Brother, Bones, Family Guy, Heroes, House, King of the Hill, My Name is Earl, New Amsterdam, The Office, Saturday Night Live, Shark, The Simpsons, Survivor and Young and Restless.

These HD broadcasts were already available from the originating U.S. networks to the lucky Torontonians and the Golden Horseshoe with a clear southern exposure. Now that they are broadcast locally (off the CN Tower), these shows should be easily receivable by anyone with an HD tuner in Metro Toronto.