Apple disclosed the pricing for plans from AT&T that will transform one’s iPhone purchase from a very pretty brick to a fully functional three in one device for playing music, surfing the web, and making calls.

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Apple recently posted a guided tour of the iPhone, its forthcoming heavily-hyped communication device.

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A new product from Nokia is here, and its arrival marks a noteworthy change in the corporate scheme of things. “After years of treating Apple users as second class citizens, Nokia has released a Beta version of Nokia Media Transfer for Mac, which enables its N-series mobile phones to transfer music, photos and other files to and from a Mac,” observes Steve O’Hear, the editor of last100.

As for whether this change is a good one, O’Hear continues, “The Nokia Media Transfer works as advertised and has enough iTunes and iPhoto integration to feel like a proper Mac application.”

It sounds as if Nokia’s nod to Mac users has been returned (in a manner of speaking) in kind.

When I hear (or write) about a product’s new features, I can usually count those upgrades on one hand. But even my fingers and toes, combined, will be insufficient in this case – TUAW’s David Chartier addresses “The 300+ new features of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.”

“[A]long with a redesigned Apple.com, the company has unveiled the full Leopard features site, elaborating a lot more on most (but likely not all) the new features we’ll get to play with in October,” Chartier writes, dubbing this “the most significant upgrade in Mac OS X’s history.”

He then adds, “Included in the list are apps we haven’t seen featured on stage, including iCal, Parental Controls, DVD Player, Automator and more.” If you’re interested in learning more, well . . . thanks to those 300 features, it looks like you’ve got some serious reading in your future.

Apple’s line of Mac Book Pro laptops has just received a round of upgrades, and, from what we hear, the enhancements are both thorough and impressive. Unbeatable.co.uk’s Hayley Malyon begins a description by writing of “twice as much memory” “LED backlit displays.”

“However,” the writer continues, “the greatest improvement has got to be the internal processors that Apple has been generous enough to share with us. The lower end 15.4” model is now stacked with 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors (compared to the previous 2.16GHz chip) and the higher spec 15” and 17” models have a 2.4GHz chip compared to the previous 2.33GHz.”

Sounds very nice indeed. Hats off to Apple for another job well done.

The first Aqua development snapshot of OpenOffice for the Mac has been released:

All snapshots until we release the a beta product should not be used for production work, as the software may crash and may destroy your data. A backup of all documents used in OpenOffice.org Aqua is recommended.

You’ve been warned. Here is the link: openoffice.org/mac

Via OSDir