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"  NEW iPHONE UNVEIL /// LIVE TODAY @ 10 A.M PACIFIC! * BOOKMARK: &amp;#039;Cult of Mac&amp;#039; Expert Live Blogs the Steve Jobs Keynote   Here we go again. Apple CEO Steve Jobs is gearing up for another keynote speech about another upcoming product that has already been reported to death by online publications (ours included), slobbering over each new nugget of innuendo.  But the writing&amp;#039;s on the wall: A new 3G iPhone is coming today. And that means you&amp;#039;ll read anything about it before the geekiest lunch break of the year--including my dreamblogging. Hey, you seemed to like it last time, and my Apple predictions are usually pretty cool ... if not always immediately accurate.  We&amp;#039;ll have legitimate Mac geek Pete Mortensen on hand at San Francisco&amp;#039;s Moscone Center with second-by-second analysis at this 3G iPhone live blog. But before Jobs&amp;#039; hotly anticipated keynote begins today at 10 a.m. Pacific time, I&amp;#039;ll be doing my best to sow maximum confusion with this faux live blog at 10 a.m. Eastern. So for those of you who&amp;#039;ve already been lured here by our craven media stunt, please, sit back, relax and join us for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference of my mind. 11:10 That&amp;#039;s all, folks! No need for me to stick around for the rest of this musical performance by Peter Gabriel--seems to be shameless promotion for the soundtrack to the new Pixar robot love fest that is WALL-E. Although you&amp;#039;ve got to be impressed that Jobs managed to work a Pixar plug in here after such a jaw-dropping series of announcements. Two iPhones?! Whew. ...  11:02 He&amp;#039;s giving a brief preview of Snow Leopard, the new Mac OS X 10.6 version due out by year&amp;#039;s end. Looks largely like an evolutionary interface--some remote-access stuff built in, but ... What&amp;#039;s this? Touchscreen support for an expanded Front Row? Why would anyone need that? Could that Mac tablet I dreamt up all those months ago finally be coming? Jobs is talking expanded integration into the iTunes store for movie rentals, music purchases, etc. Also built-in torrent support--just kidding! 11:00 One more thing ... 10:58 Shipping today--crowd roars. Looks like we&amp;#039;ll have to wait for the GPS iPhone, though. And what happened to the videoconferencing, Steve? Lame. 10:55 Demoing more functions of the new iPhones. They can mesh network with other iPhones (old and new), as well as computers using iTunes, over Wi-Fi networks to share songs. You can browse other libraries on a network--pretty cool. 10:51 Hmm: InstantBrick feature for jail-broken phones. Any time you turn it on, it checks with Apple support to make sure that software is authentic and Apple licensed. 10:45 So Jobs is holding both of them in his hands, talking up some of the new hardware features. Inductive charging via the Apple &amp;quot;ChargePad&amp;quot; (sold separately, natch), plus wireless syncing over Wi-Fi or trickle syncing over HSDPA network.   10:42 As expected, there will be support for Microsoft ActiveSync. Steve welcomes MSFT&amp;#039;s Steve Ballmer onto the stage--talk about a meeting of the minds. &amp;quot;Plenty of room for both&amp;quot; Windows Mobile and iPhone on the market, Ballmer says. Talks about how excited he is to be introducing some potential security vulnerabilities into a hot product such as the iPhone. Yada yada yada. 10:36 Battery life will be 20 minutes with HSDPA and Wi-Fi antennas turned on (boo!), but Jobs is saying there will be an intelligent network switching feature--automatically switches on 3G or Wi-Fi antennas, only when doing data-intensive applications (cool).  10:33 Touchscreens now have haptic feedback, so keyboards feel like they have real keys (thank you, Steve--I love me some haptics).   10:29 New iPhone will cost a rather affordable $200. New iPhone DualScreen (which will go for $150) flip phone! The standard 3G iPhone has a 4-in. screen--slightly bigger, but much thinner than the current iPhone. DualScreen has two 2-in. screens coming together at hinge in the center (pics up in a minute). The DualScreen will do everything the standard iPhone does--except movie playback will be relegated to the top screen. Both have brushed black metal backs and glass fronts. Have to say, they look pretty darn slick. 10:25 Yowza! There&amp;#039;s TWO NEW iPhones. Two! 10:24 Well this took long enough: Looks like he&amp;#039;s finally taking the wraps off the 3G iPhone.   10:21 New Time Machine software for Windows, huh? Jobs says that some people have both Mac and PC on a home network. So now if you buy a Time Capsule, it will work with any machine on the network. Think I saw Steve Ballmer on the way in here...  10:19 Jobs knows we&amp;#039;re all here for a new iPhone, but he&amp;#039;s still doing some dog-and-pony unveils for other stuff. Always looking to stimulate Apple TV, he&amp;#039;s just announced a new DVR add-on box ($100). Records TV from your cable box and lets you watch it through Apple TV interface--that&amp;#039;s a good way to get around the fact that NBC doesn&amp;#039;t want to sell their content through iTunes.  10:14 Steve&amp;#039;s talking about how the economy may be down, but Apple&amp;#039;s sales are strong. Revenue is up 43 percent, more than 2 million Macs sold in the second quarter, almost 11 million iPods and 1.7 million iPhones (serious cheering just at the mention of &amp;quot;iPhone&amp;quot;). Got some pretty cool stuff to show us today, he says. Sounds great, Steve. Now get on with it! 10:10 Plenty of applause, as always. Apple cultists lighting up the screens of their iPhones and waving them in the air like a rock concert--which, for this crowd, it is.  10:08 Steve&amp;#039;s a little late getting to the stage. He&amp;#039;s wearing a Hawaiian shirt! Just kidding--he&amp;#039;s wearing a black mock turtleneck. Jesus, man! It&amp;#039;s 75 degrees in San Francisco. How cold is this guy&amp;#039;s neck? Does he have a hideously deformed Adam&amp;#039;s apple or something?    9:59 Welcome, geeks and geekettes, to the Moscone Center of my imagination. The real WWDC &amp;#039;08 keynote won&amp;#039;t begin for another three hours, but if you read my intro, you know that already. Mac nerd extraordinaire Pete Mortensen will be covering the actual event for PM, but I&amp;#039;m here at our East Cost offices. And it&amp;#039;s just about 10 o&amp;#039;clock here now, so I&amp;#039;m going to get things started early with my fabricated coverage. There are a lot of people at my imaginary WWDC--lots of &amp;quot;journalists&amp;quot; for such prestigious online publications as MacL0verZ.com, iFan.com, Newtonfaithful.com are fighting for seats and stealing posters off the wall. Since this is all in my imagination, there&amp;#039;s a seat saved for me in the third row ... on the aisle. Coldplay is playing over the PA. (But Coldplay is always playing over the PA when I dream up Apple conferences.)  polls - Take Our Poll "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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