Fresh stuff from the Apple tree

Man… that was the most exhausting Apple press conference ever. I typed this article and took screenshots while watching the whole thing. Anyways… the Apple press conference is just over and here we go with the new stuff Apple is giving to us… well selling to us .

iOS 4.1

iOS 4.1 will be introduced today and available within next week. A lot of bugfixing has been done and of course there are new features:

HDR photos are now supported:



Game Centre:

- Multiplayer games

- social integration (for finding people to play with)

- score boards



iOS 4.2 sneak preview

Available in November for all iOS devices

- Printing

- all features from iOS 4.1

- AirPlay (AirTunes replacement)



iPod – all available next week

Shuffle:

- Buttons, VoiceOver, Playlists

- 15 hours of music

- Genius mixes

- price: 49$



Nano:

- Multitouch – no buttons left

- smaller than before

- clip like the shuffle

- 24 hours of playback

- FM radio

- VoiceOver

- 8GB: 149$, 16GB: 179$



Touch:

- 40 hours of playback

- Retina Display

- Apple A4 chip

- front facing camera incl. Face Time

- 3-axis Gyro

- HD video recording (camera on the back)

- 8GB: 229$, 32GB:299$, 64GB: 399$



iTunes 10




- new icon

- more elegant and simple

- album art work available in list view now

- Ping: social network for music – you can follow artists and you can be followed by people. Posting like on Facebook pages is also available. Another feature are custom   album charts of you and people you are following



That’s all for now. Unfortunately there was no word on when iTunes 10 will be available.