Today at WWDC Apple unveiled the latest revision to the iPhone product line.

Building new features into an already sleek and successful template, Apple hopes to cement it’s dominance of the consumer orientated smartphone market. With a boat load more interactivity built-in for developers, Apple is also aiming this at the business, health and any other portable computing market that could benefit from a connect smart-phone like device with application specific add-ons (think blood glucose level testing and other interesting applications).

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More medical applications we also demoed including a health monitoring program running right on the iPhone with peripheral access. We’re talking tri-corder like functionality here. Looked awesome and it’s something I would definitely want to see in the hands of my doctor should the faitful day come that I’m hospital bound.

Bring your doctor into the 21st century

Turn-by-turn directions and the promised push notification service we also demoed. TomTom was right there in the thick of it with a pretty good looking demo. Let’s hope it provides the best in class navigation that we’ve come to expect from the PND manufacturer. TomTom accessories were also on show with the obligatory windscreen mount, a dock adapter to provide power, a loud speaker with handsfree calling and audio output and probably most importantly a GPS booster.

TomTom mount

Also on show was p2p bluetooth gaming illustrated quite lusciously by Gameloft with their new Asphalt 5 with decent graphics and a solid frame-rate (one to look out for definately, we’ll get a review for you as soon as we can).

So what’s new for the iPhone 3Gs device except iPhone firmware 3.0? Here’s the highlights:

• iPhone 3GS stands for speed
• Launching apps will be on average 2x faster
• 7.2Mbps HSPDA (rather than the limited to 3.6Mbps current chipset)
• Storage bump – 16Gb ($199) and 32Gb ($299)
• 3Mp autofocus camera with Tap-to-focus!
• Macro-mode (read barcode scanning)
• Video recording (VGA 30fps with audio)
• Direct to YouTube uploading
• Voice control not just dialing (hold down home and speak)
• Digital compass (magnetometer)
• Text-to-speach
• Built-in Nike+ (like the 2nd Gen iPod Touch)
• Hardware encryption (remote wipe etc)
• Increased battery life (9 hrs WiFi, 10 hrs video, 30 hrs audio, 12 hrs 2G talk time, 5 hrs 3G talk time)
• Looks pretty similar to the iPhone 3G (I guess that’s why it’s only the iPhone 3GS)
• Available June 19th!

Thankfully all those of us locked into our contracts for another 6 months can get in on the iPhone 3.0 action for free on our iPhone 3Gs and somewhat limited on the original iPhone (iPod touch $9.95) on the 17th of June (two weeks wait!). That said some of the cool features such as voice control aren’t looking like they’re going to be retrofitted into the iPhone 3G.

My prediction was also correct with the iPhone 3G lowered to $99 and kept as the budget option. Not a bad deal if you’re not after blistering speed, bah who am I kidding?!

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