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The iPhone will feature a YouTube application for streaming videos wirelessly over WiFi or EDGE networks, Apple confirmed today in a press release.
Speculation that a YouTube app might be included on the iPhone began when the popular video sharing site started to convert its videos to the iPhone-friendly H.264 codec earlier this month.
Steve Jobs announced today that the iPhone’s battery life will now last through 8 hours of talk time, as opposed to the 5 hours that was originally announced at Macworld.
Additionally, the iPhone battery will endure 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback and 24 hours of audio playback. If you leave the phone on standby: 250 hours — that’s more than 10 days.
“iPhone’s battery life is longer than any other smartphone and even longer than most MP3 players,” said Jobs in a press release.
Apple also upgraded the iPhone’s uppermost display layer, changing it from plastic to glass in order to make it more scratch-resistant.
The news of the iPhone upgrades raised Apple shares, which were already at an all-time high, by $3.37, to $123.87.
The iPhone “How To” commercial reveals on the phone’s home screen the presence of a 12th mystery app, as discovered by Dr. Macenstein earlier this week.
Whereas the iPhone we’ve been seeing since January shows two rows of 4 icons and one of 3, the iPhone ad showed a third row with 4 icons, as if the icons had been shifted over to make room for a 12th:
After Macenstein revealed the slip-up, Apple edited the ad on its website to show only 3 icons in that last row.
A member of the MacRumors Forums, cindynjgirl79, scanned pages of what looks like a sales training workbook on the iPhone for AT&T’s employees.
Some highlights, quoted from the MacRumors story:
Apple said it will be able to add features to iPhones after they have been purchased, says the New York Times.
“The company’s executives say that the capability to upgrade the iPhone in the field will give it a significant advantage over other cellphones, which are usually replaced frequently.”
This is great news. Now you won’t have to wait to buy iPhone 2.0 to enjoy new features like (hopefully) 3G, GPS and a video camera.
