Apple has met all analysts' expectations in terms of announcements at the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference today in San Francisco. There will be a 3G iPhone coming in a month, which will be at half price ($199 for the 8Gb), and the iPhone 2.0 firmware is also around the corner with significant improvements.

The iPhone 2.0 firmware is the enterprise-oriented update which tries to snatch customers away from the likes of BlackBerry by adding previously unavailable features on Apple's gadget such as interoperability with corporate email systems. There is also VPN, support for Microsoft Office and iWork documents, as well as other improvements. The update will be available in a month for free to iPhone users and will cost 10 bucks iPod Touch owners.

Steve Jobs also officially opened the Apple Store which will be the place where iPhone owners will get their third-party apps. The only official place.

But let's get back to the new iPhone. It will pack 3G, GPS, better battery life (300 hours for standby, 2G talk at 10 hours, and 3G talk of 5 hours, or  5-6 hours of browsing, 7 hours of video, and 24 hours of audio) and much more. It is slimmer. Overall, it is better and cheaper and will hit 22 countries starting July 11, with a goal of rolling it out to 70 countries eventually.

Jobs also talked about the MobileMe service which is allegedly "Exchange for the rest of us," providing advanced synchronization features with support for Mail, iCal and Address Book on Mac OS X and Outlook on Windows. The price is somewhat steep: 20GB of storage for $99 per year with a 60-day free trial.