Finally Apple has released the much needed app for iPhone application developers today. The new iTunes Connect Mobile app for iPhone and iPod touch will help developers to know their product statistics on the App Store. With the AppStore growing to a size of over 250,000+ apps and thousands of downloads daily,  it is very much important for an iPhone application developer to keep track of his apps.

The iTunes Connect Mobile app allows iPhone developers a break-out of sales by day, week, month (5w) and 6 months (26w). Application developers can now easily see in which target markets their applications are doing well and where they aren’t.

iPhone developers may download this cool new application from the App Store right now. However the product may need some time to propagate around the app store before it appears to everyone, so one might need to wait for his turn.

Well, as Steve said, that Apple would be open to open outside ad networks, it just happened through new developer license agreement but it have different terms at different levels.

Apple’s last license agreement released in April states that they’d block all outside / third-party ad networks from selling “in-app” ads on it’s devices by muting their ability to track user data in absence of any clarification from Apple.

Steve at D8 Conference said like, Apple wasn’t interested in banning rivals to its iAd platform but just wanted to cripple third-party analytics companies like Flurry.

The following is the part of the legal, talks about the Ad.

3.3.9 You and Your Applications may not collect, use, or disclose to any third party, user or device data without prior user consent, and then only under the following conditions:

- The collection, use or disclosure is for the purpose of serving advertising to Your Application; is provided to an independent advertising service provider whose primary business is serving mobile ads (for example, an advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other than Apple would not qualify as independent); and the disclosure is limited to UDID, user location data, and other data specifically designated by Apple as available for advertising purposes.

This reflects almost the same as what Steve said at D8 conference but little beyond that, it states “for example, an advertising service provider owned by or affiliated with a developer or distributor of mobile devices, mobile operating systems or development environments other than Apple would not qualify as independent” So, Google well suits here as it qualifies, as a developer and distributor of mobile devices. Other than that its simple to guess and very obvious as well, if Microsoft entered in advertising market for mobile devices, they would not qualify either.

One good thing is that the smaller companies like Greystripe, Millenial Media and Medialets can still can get their ads built into apps developed by any iPhone developer as it is happening right now. If these requires user data to target proper ad, they can only get it through the permission of the Apple and the user of device.

TUAW blogger TJ Louma enquired AT&T regarding the upgrade plans to iPhone 4 and he found out that if you’re lucky enough to qualify for one of the early upgrades that get you out of usual 18-months AT&T commitment period, then you pay just $199 for 16GB and $299 for 32GB.

If your upgrade date is January 1, 2011 or after, early pricing for the iPhone 4 will be US $399 for the 16GB model of $499 for 32GB model.

If you plan to upgrade it to “no-commitment” contact, meaning that there’s no early termination fee for dropping the phone led two years, the price sneaks up another $200 to $599 for the 16GB model and $699 for the 32GB unit.

As with major purchase you should consider these pricing factors before you jump into purchasing a new iPhone. Remember, there will be a new mold coming out in 2011.

Apple announced next version of iPhone, called the iPhone 4 during the keynote by Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs’ at World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC10).

Jobs’ said: “It’s beyond a doubt, the most precise thing and one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever made”. There are new features of iPhone 4 as follows.

Updated design

The new iPhone 4 is 9.4mm thick and 24 precent thinner that the iPhone 3GS. It includes new camera with LED flash on the back with a second front facing camera as well. New volume buttons, a mute button and a second microphone on the top for noise cancellation. It has micro-SIM tray same as iPad.

iPhone 4 has three integrated antennas into the design: one for Bluetooth, one for Wi-Fi and GPS and one for UMTS and GSM.

Gorgeous Display

Apple introduces their first ever Retina display add much higher precision to the iPhone. In fact, at 326 pixels per inch, it’s double the 163 pixel per inch resolution of the iPhone 3GS. The display is same 3.5 inches with its length but at 960 by 640 it has four time as many pixels as the previous model. The 800:1 contrast ratio is also four times that of the iPhone 3GS, it uses IPS display technology as the iPad and the iMac for good color fidelity, brightness and viewing angle.

New Processor

iPhone 4 has the new A4 processor which is also the processor of iPad as well. This A4 processor is a tiny chip designed by Apple which occupied little space in the unit makes a welcoming room for bigger battery for iPhone 4. Apple says, it provides 40 percent more talk time. The company says the talk time is up from 5 hours to 7 hours; 6 hours to 3G browsing; 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing; 10 hours of video; 40 hours of music; and 300 hours of standby.

The new iPhone is arsenic free, BFR-free mercury-free, PVC-free, and made from highly recyclable materials.

It comes in sizes up to 32GB of storage (the same as the iPhone 3GS) and includes quad-band HSPDPA/HSUPA networking with a maximum of 7.2Mbps down and 5.8 Mbps up.

“That’s theoretical because the carriers don’t support it yet,” said Jobs.

There’s also 802.11n Wi-Fi wireless networking, an improvement from 802.11g in the previous model.

Gyroscope

The new iPhone 4 adds three-axis gyroscope for measuring angular velocity. It can figure out pitch, roll and yaw; and rotation about gravity. The gyroscope plus the accelerometer provides six-axis motion sensing. There are also new CoreMotion API that developers can call for extremely precise position information which ideal for games.

All new Camera

iPhone 4 has a new 5 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom and a LED flash. Not only that iPhone 4 also does a video with up to 720p HD video recording at 30 frames per second. You can even edit the video which you just shot right on your iPhone 4 with iMovie. You can add titles, changes themes, and use music from your iTunes library.

iMovie for iPhone will be available for $5 – “if we approve it,” Jobs joked, in reference to the App Store.

FaceTime

FaceTime is something you can video chat using the front facing camera and also with the back camera with a simple tap on screen to change what camera to use while video chat.

For Jobs’ patented (well, probably not, but it should be) One More Thing moment, he sat down on a chair to show off the iPhone 4’s video chatting capabilities. Using either of the two cameras, you can make video calls—a feature called FaceTime—between iPhone 4 phones over Wi-Fi only—at least through 2010. Jobs said Apple needs to “work a little bit with the cellular providers in the future”. You can switch between cameras and chat in landscape or portrait mode.

Price and availability

The iPhone 4 will come in black and white, at $199 for 16GB and $299 for 32GB. Apple will also add an 8GB iPhone 3GS for $99.

Jobs said that AT&T is going to make “an incredibly generous upgrade offer.” If your contract expires any time in 2010, you’re immediately eligible for that pricing, for up to six months early eligibility. The iPhone 4 will be available from Apple and AT&T’s retail and online stores, as well as at Best Buy and Wal-Mart stores.

The iPhone 4 goes on sale in the U.S., France, Germany, the U.K., and Japan on June 24, with pre-orders starting on June 15. It will ship in 18 more countries in July, in 24 more in August, and in 40 more by the end of September.

Apple also showed off some accessories: a $29 dock and a $29 case called a Bumper that comes in white, black, blue, green, orange, or pink.

iPhone OS 4 is now called as iOS 4 and it’s Golden Master Release Candidate is available for download for paid iPhone Developer only. We’ve been expecting since really long and finally it’s out. This beta release of iOS 4 / iPhone OS 4 is a last beta release from Apple and final release which will graduate beta will be out on 21st June 2010.

This new iPhone OS 4 / iOS 4 can be install on iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G and anyways iPhone 4 will be shipped with this OS installed in it. But iPhone 2G / classic wont’ be getting an iPhone OS 4 / iOS 4 update this means that Apple stopped supporting their very first iPhone which was a revolutionary product of in it’s kind.

This is true that from here on iPhone OS will called as iOS and the latest iPhone OS 4 is now an iOS4. So, from here onwards we’ll call ourselves an iOS Developer.

Well, now one thing is pretty simple to understand that why did they changed the name of OS from iPhone OS to iOS, they wanted to use iPhone OS in almost all of their products in coming days or they’re simply coming up with plenty of new segment devices, in which iPhone OS will be used. Those devices which will not be a phone but will be running on iPhone OS, why not just change the name of OS. If you’re an iPhone developer you know how weird it was to talk about iPad and saying that iPad runs on iPhone OS which was pretty much changed through its UI. So, now we call that the iPad runs on iOS 3.2.

I believe that all the device starting with ‘i’ will eventually have iOS loaded in it, in coming days. This is just what I think. If you’ve something in your mind, do let us know leaving a comment below.

Yep that’s true that whatever we speculated didn’t turned up precisely but yeah, one thing what we speculated and turned up well is that the new iPhone 4 is the same iPhone prototype which Gizmodo covered last month.

The new iPhone 4 has the best things in it for both iPhone Developers and iPhone users. One of the best things about it is its Retina Display with 960×640 pixels. Its screen clarity is just WOW! Above all, we iPhone Developers doesn’t really need to rescale our apps to match this new display quality density as we do it on other platforms like Android where we need to design your app keeping different screen densities in our mind. Whereas, iPhone does it all by its own and what else, it makes your existing app looks really better but if you try and enhance it it’ll look stunning on the new iPhone 4.

All together the new iPhone has lots of great new hardware features added in it. Do return to this blog to get new details on iPhone 4.

Moscone Center is getting ready to host Apple’s World Wide Developer conference happening this Monday. There’s a big Apple logo outside the convention center’s wall of windows and a huge banner of “WWDC10″, which focuses on iPhone Apps. It is a bigger version of what you see on WWDC official site

There’s something worth noticing here, ‘No’ Mac OS X signs or banner found around and majority of sessions are iPhone Development related talks, though there are quite a few number of Mac OS X sessions. There is no news regarding Mac OS X 10.7 announcements at WWDC10.

Apple has almost abandoned its IT conference tracks focusing on servers and mass development, so that they meet the high demands of iPhone developers. We can easily guess that WWDC10 is all about iPhone developers / development, now.

The following are the pictures taken from AppleInsider.com:

Apple sold about 2 million iPad in less than 60 days with unlimited dataplan. It’s bad that, iPad owners in America may not get unlimited data package from here on and not only just iPad owners but iPhone owners too. There seems to be some major changes with tariff of dataplans.

There are two plans namely, Data Plus and Data Pro.

DataPlus is the cheapest plan, that provides you with 200MB of data for $15 per month. Right now, iPhone users pay $30 for unlimited dataplan which is quiet double of latest 200MB plan. If you exceed 200MB in a month with $15 plan, then you need to pay another $15 to get more 200MB.

DataPro is the plan with 2GB of data priced at $25 per month and if you exceed the limit you need to pay $10 for additional 1GB. This plan is designed for the heavy data users on iPhone / iPad. According to AT&T, 98 percent of their total iPhone data users never crossed 2GB in a month. If you never crossed 2GB over a month on your iPhone or iPad then this plan might gives you the feeling of unlimited dataplan.

These new changes are signaling me that the new iPhone gonna have some major changes with respects to it’s carrier support. It might be with AT&T’s exclusivity for iPhone or AT&T is trying to provide better service to their customers.

During WWDC every year, there are lots of WWDC local parties happening for iPhone developers and this one is hosted by Palm and Appcelerator on Wednesday, June 9th from 6:00-9:00 PM. This is pretty amazing that a Palm and Appcelerator are putting up the party during WWDC(on 9th June). I think, this the best opportunity for them to get the best developers as their audience. It seems like they gonna showcase some of their great products and development tools, etc.

This party should be good for networking and meeting some great fellow developers, also have free food and drinks. Checkout mailer below, I just received. If you are planning to attend this event, you can simply RSVP by shooting an email at rsvp@palm.com

I’ve also covered some other great parties happening around during WWDC, click here to see the earlier post on other party coverage.