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Overall, it seems the consensus predictions and leaks were almost all accurate – no big surprises – iPhone updated as we saw in leaked videos, iTunes movie rentals, and the amazing looking MacBook Air. Here’s some quick notes and excerpts from the keynote coverage relevant to the iPhone and iPod Touch:

iPhone:

• 4 million iPhone sold in its first 200 days – wow.
• Average 20,000 per day
• iPhone has got 19.5% of U.S. SmartPhone market (2nd behind RIM)
• New software available TODAY for the iPhone (update later presumably): Maps with location, Webclips, Customize home screen, SMS multiple people
• SMS multiple people = check, big wish list item
• Maps with location looks very cool, just as expected
• Webclips = bookmark a web page on the home screen, but it even will remember where you zoomed / panned to on the page
• Jiggly icons to re-arrange them
• Can have up to 9 Home screens and flick between them as with Springboard hack
• Software changes just about all as revealed in the leaked 1.1.3 firmware videos

What The iPhone Did NOT Get:

• No early SDK
• No Copy & Paste (why???)
• No MMS

iPod Touch – Another Price-Drop Level PR Blunder???

• iPod Touch gets 5 new apps – Maps, Mail, Stocks, Notes, and Weather
• These will be built into new ones, existing users pay $20

The $20 charge to existing Touch users seems stupid and likely to cause another furor among users.  Another slap to early adopters – guess nothing was learned from the iPhone price cut experience.

That new MacBook Air looks gorgeous too – but *way* pricy if you look at the SSD option – more than $3,000.

As an iPhone user, the new update sounds good, but not great – probably not worth giving up 3rd party apps for …