Wow. I'm reading live feeds of Steve Job's keynote speech at Macworld. He's announced the new iPhone for Cingular. The features are unreal. Data and photos are courtesy of Engadget.

It's an 8 gig Video iPod. Only one "home" button. No stylus. All touch-screen. It's got a 3.5-inch screen, and the highest resolution screen Mac's ever shipped, 160ppi. It's the thinnest smartphone by far, at 11.6mm and includes a 2-megapixel camera.

It's a smartphone that runs on Mac OS X and updates on iTunes.

The iPhone somehow runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, iTunes (of course) and Yahoo push email. Infact, both Google and Yahoo CEOs came out to speak back-to-back about their partnerships with Apple for this phone. You can browse Web pages like you would on a PC and touch the screen to zoom.

Add html email support to the features list.

And conference text messaging.
And selective voicemail.

Job's was so cocky with the iPhone that he checked Apple's stock price on stage to show that the stock had jumped $2.50 during his presentation. Compare that to the 29 cent increase in Microsoft's stock during its partnership announcement with Ford yesterday.

The 4GB iPhone will go out the door in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599. Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008.

While it's out of a lot of people's price range now, this phone will change the game. BTW, Apple's stock rose 8 percent or $7.10 today. I hope everyone bought stock at the right time.

I don't normally write anything about sports, but that Seahawks-Cowboys game produced one of the most dramatic fourth-quarters I have ever seen. Here's a breakdown of what happened:

  • Matt Hasselbeck opened the quarter with an interception. Nice.
  • The Cowboys completed a field goal.
  • The Seahawks blew a first and goal from the 1.
  • At their own 2, Tony Romo threw a pass to Terry Glenn and rookie cornerback Kelly Jennings stripped the ball. The ball bounced back into the end zone and Lofa Tatupu tipped it up before it went out of bounds. Michael Boulware landed on the ball for an apparent touchdown.
  • A review showed that Tatupu had his foot just out of bounds when he tipped it, so it went down as a safety and the Cowboys punted.
  • Hasselbeck hit Jerramy Stevens streaking down the middle for a 37-yard touchdown. The two-point conversion failed, but the Seahawks led 21-20.
  • The Cowboys moved up field and appeared to be primed for a game-winning 19-yard field goal.
  • Romo fumbled a good snap. He jumped up to run with it, but Jordan Babineaux stopped him at the 2. The Seahawks win. Everyone makes fun of Romo.

Big ups to everyone who came to the focuspoint show last night in Bellingham, especially my PRWeb peoples. I'd appreciate it if you all could mark your calendars for one of the following dates. Thanks! And the shameless self-promotions continue...

Last night I partied with some co-workers. We were at Viceroy in Belltown and met an Israeli soldier. This guy is 23 and he's telling me he thinks Seattle nightlife is relaxed because no one carries semi-automatic weapons into the clubs. I had to agree with him.