Randy Ubillos, Apple Chief Architect of Video Apps, has just taken the stage to show off iMovie for iPhone, claiming it’s one of the most exciting things he’s ever worked on.

What’s iMovie for iPhone about? “Record HD video and edit with beautiful transitions and titles, all on the device you carry with you every day,” says Ubillos.

Once you bring up the app, you quickly get a list of all the project you have, and can just tap on a project to get into the editing environment. Clips are viewed along the bottom of the display: rotate the phone to landscape and you can record directly into the timeline, or choose from existing clips, which are dragged in. Pinch to change the scale of the timeline.

Photos can also be added, as well as transitions (entered with a scroll box) and even titles. The new camera records geolocation information and gets picked up automatically by iMovie and put into the screen as an option.

You can also add music tracks to your video from your iTunes library.

Wow. This is incredible. There’s just nothing like this out there right now. It’ll be available on the App Store for just $4.99.

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While trying to show off the iPhone 4’s new retina display by comparing web pages, Steve Jobs encountered an unfortunate problem with the Moscone center’s WiFi.

Making a hat tip to Google’s problems at their IOKeynote, Jobs joked: “You could help me out by getting off of WiFi.” Unfortunately, his problems didn’t end there, as when he switched to a backup iPhone 4, he got the dreaded “Could not activate cellular network.”

Giving up on web pages, Jobs apologized: “I’m sorry guys, I just don’t know what’s going on. Scott, you got any suggestions?”

A perfect audience response: someone shouted out “Verizon!”

The second big thing about the iPhone 4, according to Jobs, is the revolutionary new display.

They’re calling it the retina display, and it quadruples, as reported, the pixel density of the last iPhone. You now get an industry leading 326 pixels per inch in the iPhone 4. It’s a marked improvement on the display in the 3GS in both brightness and clarity.

“There has never been a display like this on a phone,” says Jobs. “People haven’t even dreamt of a display like this. It turns out there’s a limit around 300px per inch that the human eye can’t differentiate between the pixels — text looks like you’ve seen it in a fine printed book, unlike you’ve ever seen on an electronic display before.”

“Once you use a Retina Display,” Jobs confidently brags,”you just can’t go back.”

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And it’s here! Steve Jobs has just announced the latest iPhone, the biggest jump in core technology yet since the original: the iPhone 4. It’s the Gizmodo one.

“Some of you have already seen this,” he quips.

iPhone 4 will include over a hundred new features. Jobs claims it is extremely thin at just 9.3mm thick, 24% thinner than the 3GS, making it the thinnest smartphone on the planet.

Jobs claims it’s the most precise and beautiful thing Apple’s ever made, more akin to a beautiful old camera (?) than a smartphone of today. It’s a gorgeous amalgam stainless steel for strength and glass for optical quality and scratch resistance

The iPhone 4 has a micro-SIM on the side, with a camera and LED flash on the back. On the bottom, it boasts a microphone, a 30 pin connector, and a speaker. On the top, a headset, a second microphone and a sleep/wake button.

The biggest detail? There’s a stainless steel band that runs around the edge of the phone, which is integrated with the band system to give superior reception for BlueTooth, WiFi, GPS, 3G and all the other radio stuff.

Next up, the next “big thing” about the iPhone 4.

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Back on stage after showing off three new iPhone apps, Steve Jobs gets into the meat of why we’re here — the iPhone — with a few statistics.

As of today, over five billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store, with over a billion dollars paid to developers to date.

It is one of the greatest things we get to do. And that’s what makes the App Store the most vibrant app community on the planet. 5 Billion downloads and a healthy ecosystem! We’re thrilled with it.”

Who can blame Apple? The App Store is revolutionary.

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Eliciting a resounding “What the f***!” from a member of the WWDC audience, Zynga just took the stage and announced that the irritating Facebook phenomenon Farmville played by 35 million users a day is now coming to the iPhone.

It makes sense, actually: recent updates to Facebooks’ privacy settings, making it harder for apps to spam you, has seen Farmville lose millions of users in a month. It also makes sense because We Rule already proved how strong the concept of a Farmville clone on the App Store could be, at least as far as making money off of micro-transactions to hurry things along are concerned.

Oh, and say goodbye to withering crops! Push notification is fully supported.

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Netflix is already available on the iPad, but as the recent revelation that the iPad executable was a universal binary implies, it’s coming to the iPhone too.

The iPhone version uses adaptive vidfeo playback, and allows for seamless switching between 3G and WiFi networks. It’s coming this summer, and it’ll be free.

I guess they got around the performance issues, at least on the next-gen iPhone.

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Apple wants people to know they’ve gotten a lot better about App Store approval, and Steve Jobs has just given some numbers to prove it.

About 15,000 apps are submitted every week in thirty different languages. Jobs claims that an astonishing 95% of these apps are now approved within seven days.

What about the apps that aren’t? Jobs doesn’t want us thinking censorship: rather, the more common reason is that it doesn’t function as advertised, with the second most common reason that it is pulling from private APIs.

The third most frequent reason? “They crash. If you were in our shoes, you’d be rejecting apps for the exact same reasons.”

The point of this section of the keynote is clearly to make sure people don’t think Apple’s censoring. “Sometimes when you read some of these articles, you may think other stuff is going on,” Steve notes. True enough!

I wonder how much of that 5% is made up of jiggling boob apps, though.

Apple has just announced the initial figures of iBooks at this year’s WWDC, and in addition, they’ve got some great new iBooks features in the pipe.

In the first 65 days, users have also downloaded over 5 million books, or about two and a half per iPad… and five out of six big publishers in the United States claim that the share of eBooks going through the iBookstore is about 22 percent.

Next, some enhancements to iBooks. They’ve just added the ability to take notes to iBooks, as well as the ability to view and read PDFs. For PDFs, you get a whole new bookshelf.

That’s some good additional functionality that should make iBooks more interesting to people who live and breathe PDFs.

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The iPad has been a huge success for Apple, and it was the first thing Jobs wanted an iPad-obsessed audience to know at this year’s WWDC.

To date, Apple confirms they’ve sold over 2 million iPads, which is one every three seconds. It is now shipping in over ten countries, and Apple wants to prove that they’ve got a revolution on their hands by showing the WWDC audience a video reel of the great coverage the iPad has gotten worldwide.

Additionally, there are now over 8,500 native iPad apps in the App Store. Apps account for 35 million downloads in two months, or about 17 apps per iPad sold. The guys behind Wolfram Associates’ Elements says he made more on the app in the first day of the iPad launch than five years of Google Ads.

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