Today's Apple's iPhone OS 4 event!

This is the brief version of todays Apple iPhone OS 4 event:

• As of today Apple has sold over 450,000 iPads!

• As of today Apple 600,000 iBooks have been downloaded.

• As of today Apple 3.5 iPad apps have been downloaded.

• Over 4 Billion apps have been downloaded from the Apple app store.

• There are 185,000 apps in the Apple app store.

• There are 3,500 apps in for the iPad in the app store.

• 50 Million iPhones have been sold.

• The iPhone OS version 4 will be released to the public summer 2010.

• Developers may download the iPhone OS 4 preview today.

• The iPhone OS version 4 will feature 1500 new API's.

• The iPhone OS version 4 will offer 100 new user features. Such as Create playlists, 5x digital zoom, tap to focus on video, gift apps, geotagging, places in the photo app, change the home screen, wallpaper, bluetooth keyboards support and spell checker."

• The iPhone OS version 4 will offer Multitasking done in a way that will not suck your battery dry.

• The iPhone OS version 4 will offer: Background audio, Voice over IP (Skype), Background location, Push notifications, Local notifications, Task completion, Fast app switching, Folders, Home screen wallpaper, Unified email inbox, Organized by thread email, Open email attachments, Multiple Exchange accounts, Fast email inbox switching, iBooks for iPhone, better data protection, SSL VPN support, Exchange Server 2010 support, Game Center, iAd Mobile Advertising.

• Apple said that the following sites are using the most current web standards (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript): CNN, Reuters, New York Times, Viemo, Time, ESPN, Major League Baseball, Netflix, NPR, National Hockey League, The White House, Virgin America, Sports Illustrated, Flickr, People Magazine, TED, Nike, CBS, Spin, National Geographic and will support your iPad or iPhone.

• iPhone OS version 4 for the iPad will be released in the fall.

Read more and see photos from engadgets coverage of Apples event today.

Apple rocks out, announces new iPods, iTunes 8

At the highly-anticipated "Let's Rock" event today in San Francisco, Apple updated the venerable iPod.

HD TV shows
"Shows will cost $2.99 apiece (instead of the typical $1.99 for SD episodes), but unlike the handful of HD movies the store already has, HD TV show episodes can be watched on a computer, not just on an Apple TV."

iTunes 8
"Jobs announced a new Pandora-like "Genius" feature that can generate playlists of songs "that go great together." A new Genius Sidebar can also anonymously (and voluntarily) send your library info up to the iTunes Store cloud to make smarter recommendations of new music a customer may like. A new button in the iTunes 8 interface offers easy access to these new Genius features."

New iPod nano
"The new iPod nano can create Genius playlists on the go, without having to connect to iTunes, and it also gained the accelerometer from the iPhone and iPod touch for viewing Cover Flow album art, photos, and video when turned sideways. The iPod nano is also gaining a number of new hardware and software features that typically could only be had through third-party accessories (if at all), such as a built-in voice recorder and the ability to shake it to shuffle. Other new iPod nano features include an iPhone-like headphone set with a new clicker, volume control, and microphone."

New iPod touches
"The new iPod touch has the same 3.5" display but gets thinner with a tapered, stainless steel back (probably to differentiate it from the iPhone). The iPod touch will gain the iPhone's integrated volume controls on its side, and gains a built-in speaker like the iPhone which Jobs claimed was "really hard for something this thin, for casual listening." Genius playlist creation will also be built into the iPod touch. nother unique feature of the new iPod touch is the integration of the Nike+iPod system for tracking running statistics. Unlike the iPod nano, the hardware receiver has been built into the iPod touch."

New iPhone OS 2.1
"The major update should "significantly" improve battery life, problems with droppped calls, fix a lot of bugs, and backing up to iTunes should be "dramatically" faster. New iPod touches ship with the 2.1 OS update, and it should be available to download for free for all other iPhone and iPod touch owners running iPhone OS 2.0 this Friday."

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