iPhone 3G will be available for $199 for the 8GB model and $299 for the 16GB model. These prices require two-year contracts and are available to the following customers:

• iPhone customers who purchased before July 11
• Customers activating a new line with AT&T
• Current AT&T customers who are eligible, at the time of purchase, for an upgrade discount

Existing AT&T customers who are not currently eligible for an upgrade discount can purchase iPhone 3G for $399 for the 8GB model or $499 for the 16GB model. Both options require a new two-year service agreement. In the future, AT&T will offer a no-contract-required option for $599 (8GB) or $699 (16GB).

Current customers may also choose to wait until they become eligible for an upgrade discount. Eligibility is generally determined by amount of time remaining on a current contract and payment history. Current AT&T customers who are upgrading to iPhone 3G will pay an $18 upgrade fee and new AT&T customers will pay the standard $36 activation fee.

iPhone 3G customers can choose from four individual AT&T Nation plans, which bundle voice and unlimited data (e-mail and Web browsing).

• AT&T Nation Unlimited: Includes unlimited Anytime Minutes for $129.99 a month.
• AT&T Nation 1350: Includes 1350 Anytime Minutes and unlimited Night & Weekend Minutes for $109.99 a month.
• AT&T Nation 900: Includes 900 Anytime Minutes and unlimited Night & Weekend Minutes for $89.99 a month.
• AT&T Nation 450: Includes 450 Anytime Minutes and 5,000 Night & Weekend Minutes for $69.99 a month.

All AT&T Nation and AT&T FamilyTalk plans for iPhone 3G include nationwide long distance and roaming, Visual Voicemail, Rollover, unlimited Mobile to Mobile calling, Call Forwarding, Call Waiting, Three-Way Calling and Caller ID.

AT&T will offer FamilyTalk plans, with bundled voice and unlimited data, starting as low as $129.99 a month for two iPhone 3G lines. Up to three additional iPhone lines can be added for $39.99 each.

Unlimited text messaging can be added for an additional $20 ($30 for FamilyTalk plans of up to five lines); $15 (1,500 messages), or $5 (200 messages).

Business customers interested in iPhone 3G should contact an AT&T business sales representative or review their account information online to determine their eligibility for upgrade pricing. Corporate e-mail and other business applications require the Enterprise Data Plan for iPhone, which is $45 a month and bundled with an eligible voice plan. Small business customers may qualify for AT&T BusinessTalk, the industry’s only shared plan specifically for small businesses. Additional details on iPhone business offerings are available at www.att.com/iphoneforbusiness.

via [iphonebuzz]

With a two-year contract, the price of an 8GB iPhone 3G will be $199; the 16GB model will be priced at $299. Unlimited iPhone 3G data plans for consumers will be available for $30 a month, in addition to voice plans starting at $39.99 a month. Unlimited 3G data plans for business users will be available for $45 a month, in addition to a voice plan.

07:17 am Vincent Nguyen: Onsite at Moscone West! The line outside is packed with attendees. Press registration starts at 8am.

07:39 am Vincent Nguyen: Quick video of the gift bag that apple is giving out to antendee — has t-shirt inside.

08:39 am Vincent Nguyen: Before things get too crazy later (n 1 1/2 hours) I wanna do a quick shout out to my buds at the Chandler Fashion Square mall in Chandler, AZ! Thanks for saving my ass (long story — HDD failed on MBP 2 days prior to event!)

08:44 am Vincent Nguyen: Damn DOOR! It’s is the only thing keeping me from the entering .

09:27 am Ewdi: Roughly 30 minutes to the event…..

09:41 am Vincent Nguyen: Door is open, but broadcast journalists are allowed in first

09:49 am Vincent Nguyen: And we’re in!

09:50 am Vincent Nguyen: I’m in the third row from the front, music still playing and ten minutes or so to go

09:53 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s going to take a while for everyone to get in – this is a big room

09:56 am Vincent Nguyen: No shortage of special guests. Al Gore and Walt Mossberg already in the room.

10:03 am Vincent Nguyen: The stage is looking pretty lonely – just two iMacs on there

10:04 am Vincent Nguyen: Apple ushers are trying to settle the room down, asking people to turn off their phones

10:06 am Vincent Nguyen: Lights are dimming

10:07 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve is on stage

10:07 am Vincent Nguyen: Massive applause from audience and Apple staff

10:08 am Vincent Nguyen: “We’ve been working hard on some stuff we can’t wait to share with you”

10:08 am Vincent Nguyen: “There are 52,000 attendees at WWDC”

10:08 am Vincent Nguyen: They sold out the venue and couldnt’ find anywhere bigger

10:10 am Vincent Nguyen: They’ll be talking about the iPhone this morning and the developer programme

10:10 am Vincent Nguyen: After lunch, we’ll be looking at Snow Leopard

10:10 am Vincent Nguyen: The new version of OS X

10:10 am Vincent Nguyen: 250,000 ppl have downloaded the iPhone SDK

10:11 am Vincent Nguyen: Of those, 4,000 have been in the beta program

10:11 am Vincent Nguyen: Out of 25,000 applications

10:11 am Vincent Nguyen: Starting to talk about iPhoen Enterprise features

10:11 am Vincent Nguyen: Recapping the last announcement: Exchange support, etc

10:12 am Vincent Nguyen: Push email, contacts, calendars, global address book

10:12 am Vincent Nguyen: 35% of the Fortune 500 companies have been testing the new iPhone enterprise functionality

10:13 am Vincent Nguyen: They’ve been closely working with Cisco on the VPN and security side

10:13 am Vincent Nguyen: They’ve also been working with higher education establishments

10:13 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve is showing us a video of how iPhone 2.0 has been used

10:14 am Vincent Nguyen: Multiple talking-heads with company CTOs discussing the appeal of iPhone 2.0

10:14 am Vincent Nguyen: According to Steve the feedback has been “fantastic”

10:15 am Vincent Nguyen: Company IT people are falling over themselves to praise the platform

10:16 am Vincent Nguyen: Including contacts search – finally! – that filters as you enter search terms

10:16 am Vincent Nguyen: The army has been playing with the iPhone too

10:17 am Vincent Nguyen: Video over, Steve back on stage with Scott Forestell to discuss SDK

10:17 am Vincent Nguyen: Apparently Apple internally uses beta release SDKs

10:18 am Vincent Nguyen: He’s recapping that much of the iPhone code is the same as in OS X

10:18 am Vincent Nguyen: The same native APIs

10:18 am Vincent Nguyen: Cocoa Touch, Media, Core Service, Core OS – that last is very similar to OS X

10:19 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re particularly proud of the OpenGL implementation – it’s “very fast”

10:19 am Vincent Nguyen: Core Services include everything from database layer to core location so combining functionality is straightforward

10:20 am Vincent Nguyen: Cocoa Touch, as discussed last time, is all about making the GUI as quickly as possible

10:20 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve is discussing the development tools

10:21 am Vincent Nguyen: Scott is going to demo constructing an interface using Interface Builder

10:21 am Vincent Nguyen: App is called Nearby Friends and ties into the address book API and the core location API

10:21 am Vincent Nguyen: Displays whoever is within 10 miles of you

10:22 am Vincent Nguyen: XCode imports the APIs and then Interface Builder is used to drag in icons and controls

10:22 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s all ridiculously slick, but it’s nothing we didn’t see last time

10:24 am Vincent Nguyen: Demo is continuing

10:25 am Vincent Nguyen: Interface Builder has been told exactly what the iPhone can display, and it’s reflowing the icons to suit the screen

10:25 am Vincent Nguyen: Scott is showing the app in the iPhone simulator (that comes with the SDK)

10:26 am Vincent Nguyen: Cue applause as the finished app works and doesn’t crash anything

10:26 am Vincent Nguyen: Took just 10 minutes to make

10:26 am Vincent Nguyen: Now imagine how slick it would be with GPS too!

10:27 am Vincent Nguyen: The developers are going wild, you’d think they’d hate coding or something

10:27 am Vincent Nguyen: Scott has a Big Book of Praise full of happy quotes

10:28 am Vincent Nguyen: “You’re witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, OS X and iPhone” – quote from David Pogue

10:28 am Vincent Nguyen: Developers are being invited onto the stage to show off their wares

10:28 am Vincent Nguyen: SEGA are back with Super Monkey Ball

10:29 am Vincent Nguyen: Ethan Einhorn from SEGA is discussing how impressed he was when they set to coding Super Monkey Ball

10:30 am Vincent Nguyen: Because development was so quick, they could add lots of levels: over 100, all the monkeys

10:30 am Vincent Nguyen: Tilt control demo is super-slick

10:31 am Vincent Nguyen: Ethan is playing a Super Monkey Ball level, tilting the iPhone to move through

10:31 am Vincent Nguyen: It took them 95 days to code and will cost $9.99

10:31 am Vincent Nguyen: from the official App Store

10:31 am Vincent Nguyen: eBay have been invited up to the stage

10:32 am Vincent Nguyen: Ken Sun from the online auction site is discussing their eBay app for the iPhone

10:32 am Vincent Nguyen: You can track your watchlist, add items to it

10:33 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s not quite as exciting as Super Monkey Ball, I’m afraid, but it looks very usable

10:33 am Vincent Nguyen: Plus Ken says it only took them five weeks to develop

10:33 am Vincent Nguyen: eBay app will be free

10:34 am Vincent Nguyen: You can bid directly from the iPhone, as well as browse listings and look at all the photos with a gesture-based scroll

10:35 am Vincent Nguyen: The people from Loopt are on-stage, it’s a location-aware app

10:35 am Vincent Nguyen: Similar to Buddy Beacon from Helio – shows your friends pinpointed on a map

10:36 am Vincent Nguyen: You can see more at loopt.com

10:37 am Vincent Nguyen: There are Facebook-like status tweets for each person: “Check out this giant redwood tree” for instance

10:37 am Vincent Nguyen: Each person has a user profile, with photos they’ve submitted and a log of where they’ve been

10:38 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s cross-profile – will work on other mobile devices and all of them play nicely together – and will be free when the App Store launches

10:38 am Vincent Nguyen: TypePad are next, with a dedicated iPhone blogging tool

10:38 am Vincent Nguyen: Has photoblogging functionality, with geotagging

10:39 am Vincent Nguyen: According to the TypePad rep photoblogging is one of the platforms most popular features

10:39 am Vincent Nguyen: Photo can be taken directly from the camera or picked from shots already in the iPhone gallery

10:39 am Vincent Nguyen: It’ll also be free

10:40 am Vincent Nguyen: Associated Press (AP) are on-stage now

10:40 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re here to plug their Mobile News Network – thousands of news sources funneled into your iPhone

10:41 am Vincent Nguyen: It’ll cache news so you can read it while underground or trapped in the hold of a plane

10:41 am Vincent Nguyen: Includes images and video

10:42 am Vincent Nguyen: You can also send them news and video for the network

10:43 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s also tied into your location, so it will show topics relevent to where you are

10:43 am Vincent Nguyen: Pangaea software are on-stage, talking about two new games

10:43 am Vincent Nguyen: Both ported from OS X

10:44 am Vincent Nguyen: One is physics-based, you need to touch, drag and rotate

10:44 am Vincent Nguyen: The other is a driving game: Cro Mag Rally, in 3D

10:44 am Vincent Nguyen: You play as a racing caveman

10:45 am Vincent Nguyen: According to Pangaea it only took 3 days to port it all across

10:45 am Vincent Nguyen: Including changing the controls so that tilting the iPhone mimics a steering wheel

10:46 am Vincent Nguyen: Both will be priced at $9.99

10:47 am Vincent Nguyen: A lone developer from the British insurance industry is on-stage, Mark Terry

10:47 am Vincent Nguyen: Thankfully it’s not about insurance – it’s a game, virtual instruments called Band

10:48 am Vincent Nguyen: He’s demo’ing it by playing with Imagine by John Lennon

10:48 am Vincent Nguyen: Consists of drum background, a piano and more

10:48 am Vincent Nguyen: Best of all – and the crowd love him and it – is the fact that he developed it in his spare time

10:49 am Vincent Nguyen: Sorry, it’s actually called Cow Terry, not Band

10:49 am Vincent Nguyen: You can record what you play

10:50 am Vincent Nguyen: MLB.com are on-stage, talking about their new baseball app

10:50 am Vincent Nguyen: Jeremy Schoenherr demo’ing it – lots of stats and live game info

10:51 am Vincent Nguyen: It can tell you who is playing where, what the score is, real-time video highlights

10:51 am Vincent Nguyen: Both it and Cow Terry will be available when the App Store launches, but no prices given

10:52 am Vincent Nguyen: A doctor from Modality is on stage with two medical apps

10:53 am Vincent Nguyen: Basically using the iPhone as a teaching tool

10:55 am Vincent Nguyen: Ouch, it’s almost 11am and there have been no big announcements

10:55 am Vincent Nguyen: Second medical app lets consultants and specialists look at medical imaging while mobile

10:56 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s tricky to get excited about this without wearing a white coat

10:58 am Vincent Nguyen: MultiTouch gestures are used to rotate and flip the images, pull up rulers and shake to get rid of them

10:58 am Vincent Nguyen: The final developer is on-stage, and it’s another game

10:59 am Vincent Nguyen: Digital Legends Entertainment – they only started working on their title 2 weeks ago

11:00 am Vincent Nguyen: Basically a fighting game, touching the screen moves the fighter

11:00 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s unique to the iPhone and will appear in the App Store come September

11:01 am Vincent Nguyen: Uses OpenGL and dynamic graphic rendering, it looks like a decent 3D fantasy adventure actually

11:02 am Vincent Nguyen: Apparently developers have been asking for a way to know when users aren’t running an app

11:03 am Vincent Nguyen: Apple is criticising Background Processes as the wrong way to accomplish this – they eat battery and CPU cycles

11:03 am Vincent Nguyen: Ouch, they’re showing Windows Mobile Task Manager, and it’s not as an example of good practice

11:04 am Vincent Nguyen: “We’ve come up with a far better solution, a push notification service we’ll provide to all developers”

11:05 am Vincent Nguyen: The iPhone maintains an ongoing connection with an Apple server

11:05 am Vincent Nguyen: When you quit an app, updates are shuffled from server to iPhone; developers send the updates to Apple

11:06 am Vincent Nguyen: Uses Badges, which alert the no. waiting, Custom Alert sounds and Text Alerts that are similar to text alerts

11:06 am Vincent Nguyen: Won’t be available until September, but developers will be able to access it soon

11:06 am Vincent Nguyen: iPhone SDK has been updated

11:07 am Vincent Nguyen: Now includes iWork document support together with Word, Excel & Powerpoint compatibiltiy, plus the ability to save images (finally!) and a new scientific calculator

11:07 am Vincent Nguyen: Bulk and move mesages, parental controls and new language support

11:08 am Vincent Nguyen: Finger-drawn Chinese and Japanese character entry

11:08 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re popular additions in the room, the crowd is v.excited!

11:09 am Vincent Nguyen: The 2.0 firmware will be available in early July

11:09 am Vincent Nguyen: Free for iPhone, $9.99 for iPod Touch owners

11:09 am Vincent Nguyen: Now Steve is discussing the App Store

11:10 am Vincent Nguyen: Sorry, $9.95 for iPod Touch owners

11:10 am Vincent Nguyen: Confirming App Store T&Cs: 70% of revenue kept by developers, FairPlay verification, no charge for free software

11:11 am Vincent Nguyen: There’ll be wireless downloads direct to your device, and automatic updates

11:11 am Vincent Nguyen: App Store will be available in 62 countries; will check your connection and the app size before download starts

11:11 am Vincent Nguyen: if the app is under 10MB then it will come over the mobile network; bigger, and it’ll use either WiFi or iTunes

11:12 am Vincent Nguyen: Enterprise clients can set up their own private App Stores on their intranets and limit employee iPhones to access them

11:13 am Vincent Nguyen: That’s been a specific request from business customers

11:13 am Vincent Nguyen: Discussing a new way to distribute and test apps: Ad Hoc

11:14 am Vincent Nguyen: create a group of up to 100 iPhones and send apps to all of them; Steve suggesting this would be useful for testing betas or in classrooms

11:14 am Vincent Nguyen: Something entirely new: MobileMe

11:14 am Vincent Nguyen: “Exchange for the rest of us” – demo by Phil

11:15 am Vincent Nguyen: Push email, calendar and contacts without an Exchange server

11:15 am Vincent Nguyen: Ouch, Phil Schiller has just called ActiveSync “ActiveStink”

11:16 am Vincent Nguyen: Works cross-platform and info is pushed up and down: e.g. new email goes to all devices and from all devices

11:16 am Vincent Nguyen: Continuous, automatic syncronisation

11:16 am Vincent Nguyen: And it’s all done over-the-air via the cellular connection

11:16 am Vincent Nguyen: Mail, iCal and Address Book on Mac all supported, as is Outlook

11:18 am Vincent Nguyen: New site: Me.com

11:18 am Vincent Nguyen: Recreates the desktop experience but online from anywhere

11:19 am Vincent Nguyen: Syncs everything – including photos – and looks just like Apple’s Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Gallery apps

11:19 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re calling it a “breakthrough web 2.0 app interface” and it looks amazing

11:20 am Vincent Nguyen: iDisk is integrated into Me.com; Phil Schiller is demonstrating it now

11:20 am Vincent Nguyen: It includes everything you’d get with Outlook Web Access, with more besides – it all acts just as you’d expect the desktop version to

11:21 am Vincent Nguyen: Drag’n’Drop, multiple message select, in-line replies, complete control over pane and window resizing

11:22 am Vincent Nguyen: Contacts includes live searching and ties with Google Maps

11:22 am Vincent Nguyen: Calendar has color coding and you can drag’n’drop events, as well as display multiple views

11:23 am Vincent Nguyen: Gallery has thumbnail scrolling and drag’n’drop

11:23 am Vincent Nguyen: Hard to believe this is all web-based, it’s miles ahead of the competition in terms of interface

11:24 am Vincent Nguyen: iDisk app can send files to individuals through the web interface

11:24 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re demonstrating the over-the-air capacity: iPhone sync’ing with Me.com

11:25 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s all happening live: email, contacts, appointments, all show up on both at the same time

11:25 am Vincent Nguyen: With read status and any amendments intact

11:26 am Vincent Nguyen: Very little lag when something is changed, though presumably this is all via WiFi not cellular data on the iPhone itself

11:27 am Vincent Nguyen: Thank goodness for unlimited data plans!

11:28 am Vincent Nguyen: “Exchange for the rest of us … The perfect companion”

11:28 am Vincent Nguyen: $99 a year

11:28 am Vincent Nguyen: That includes 20GB online storage; MobileMe replaces .Mac

11:29 am Vincent Nguyen: 60 day trial and available in early July

11:29 am Vincent Nguyen: .Mac users auto upgraded

11:29 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve’s back on stage

11:29 am Vincent Nguyen: First iPhone shipped on June 29th last year

11:30 am Vincent Nguyen: Um, Steve is using a photo of me to illustrate the launch

11:30 am Vincent Nguyen: 90% customer satisfaction

11:31 am Vincent Nguyen: 98% of ppl use it to browse online, 94% use email, 90% SMS messaging, 80& ten or more features

11:31 am Vincent Nguyen: Apple ran out of stock several weeks ago – 6m sold

11:32 am Vincent Nguyen: Next challenges: more affordable, 3G networks, enterprise, third party apps, mmore countries

11:32 am Vincent Nguyen: 3G iPhone!

11:32 am Vincent Nguyen: “today we’re introducing the iPhone 3G”

11:33 am Vincent Nguyen: Black back panel, thinner edges, full plastic back

11:33 am Vincent Nguyen: “it’s really nice” says Steve

11:33 am Vincent Nguyen: Massive applause here

11:33 am Vincent Nguyen: solid metal buttons, flush 3.5mm headphone adaptor

11:34 am Vincent Nguyen: same 3.5-inch display, improved audio

11:34 am Vincent Nguyen: “Feels better in your hand” apparently

11:34 am Vincent Nguyen: They’d comparing EDGE vs 3G in a demo

11:35 am Vincent Nguyen: download in the browser takes 21 seconds on 3G and EDGE crawls along

11:35 am Vincent Nguyen: EDGE finally finishes after 59 seconds

11:36 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve is comparing 3G with WiFi speeds

11:36 am Vincent Nguyen: 17 seconds to download on WiFi

11:37 am Vincent Nguyen: 3G is 2.8x faster than EDGE

11:37 am Vincent Nguyen: Plus the iPhone 3G is 36% faster than other 3G phones (e.g. Treo 750 & Nokia N95)

11:38 am Vincent Nguyen: Email attachment takes 5 seconds on 3G, 18 seconds on EDGE

11:38 am Vincent Nguyen: Plus, Steve points out, the results are better to look at on the iPhone compared to rivals

11:38 am Vincent Nguyen: Standby time is 300hrs

11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: 3G talktime is 5hrs

11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: 2G talktime up 2hrs to 10hrs total!

11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: 5-6hrs of 3G browsing, 7 hours of video, 24hrs of audio

11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: GPS now built-in

11:39 am Vincent Nguyen: The room is going wild here

11:40 am Vincent Nguyen: It’s also assisted GPS, uses WiFi and cell towers to better pinpoint position

11:40 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve thinks location-based services are the future on the iPhone

11:40 am Vincent Nguyen: Can do tracking and work as a compass – without the dedicated compass Google recently showed in their Android prototype

11:41 am Vincent Nguyen: Demo GPS with a moving car icon on Google Maps

11:42 am Vincent Nguyen: Current iPhone available in 6 countries today, will be 12 countries for 3G version

11:42 am Vincent Nguyen: 25 countries over next few months

11:43 am Vincent Nguyen: Showing different countries getting ticked off on map – Canada, Sweden, Mexico, Norway, Netherlands, etc

11:44 am Vincent Nguyen: Seventy countries in total, including China, Australia and Japan

11:45 am Vincent Nguyen: Rollout over next few months

11:46 am Vincent Nguyen: Now price: was $599 at first launch, now $199!

11:46 am Vincent Nguyen: $199 for the 8GB iPhone 3G!

11:46 am Vincent Nguyen: $299 for the 16GB, $399 for the 32GB!

11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: The room here has just exploded

11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: They’ll make a white version too

11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: Rolled out at the same price all over the world

11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: Available July 11th

11:47 am Vincent Nguyen: They’re showing the new advert

11:48 am Vincent Nguyen: Advert is showing a safe carried by security guards, with the iPhone 3G inside

11:49 am Vincent Nguyen: “The iPhone 3G is one of the most amazing products I’ve ever had the privilege to be associated with”

11:50 am Vincent Nguyen: iPhone teams are being called to their feet, and the applause is deafening

11:51 am Vincent Nguyen: “WWDC 2008, I think it’s going to be our best so far”

11:51 am Vincent Nguyen: The lights are coming up and it looks like the keynote is over

11:51 am Vincent Nguyen: Steve has left the stage

11:52 am Vincent Nguyen: There’s no “one more thing”, but a 3G iPhone should make up for that don’t you think?

11:52 am Vincent Nguyen: Thanks for reading the iPhone Buzz Live Blog – we hope you’ve been as excited about this year’s WWDC keynote as we have been!

11:52 am Vincent Nguyen: Make sure to keep reading iPhoneBuzz.com for all the details of the new iPhone 3G

Source [iphonebuzz]

“Think of MobileMe as ‘Exchange for the rest of us’,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Now users who are not part of an enterprise that runs Exchange can get the same push email, push calendars and push contacts that the big guys get.”

MobileMe, available on July 11, is a subscription-based service with 20GB of storage for $99 (US) per year for individuals and $149 (US) for a Family Pack, which includes one master account with 20GB of storage and four Family Member accounts with 5GB of storage each. MobileMe subscribers can purchase an additional 20GB of storage for $49 (US) or 40GB of storage for $99 (US) annually.

With a MobileMe email account, all folders, messages and status indicators look identical whether checking email on iPhone, iPod touch, a Mac or a PC. New email messages are pushed instantly to iPhone over the cellular network or Wi-Fi, removing the need to manually check email and wait for downloads. Push also keeps contacts and calendars continuously up-to-date so changes made on one device are automatically pushed up to the cloud and down to other devices. Push works with the native applications on iPhone and iPod touch, Microsoft Outlook for the PC, and Mac OS X applications, Mail, Address Book and iCal, as well as the MobileMe web application suite.