It’s that time of the year again. It’s the time where Apple fanboys and developers have been waiting for. It’s Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference.

It’s also the time where I would stayed up hitting the refresh button on Safari to view live coverage of the event. So here is the brief run down of what went down at WWDC this year.

The keynote starts with new unibody MacBook Pro announcements. The MacBook Pro line now comes in 3 sizes, 13″ inch, 15″ inch and 17″ inch. Every MacBook Pro now comes with a built-in long-lasting battery. Another noticeable hardware upgrades is the SD slot on the side.

Next up was Snow Leopard. Just as expected, Snow Leopard is basically an Leopard update, that adds more refinements then features. It’s better, faster and easier with some new core technology that I’m pretty sure most developers just can’t wait to take advantage of it.

Snow Leopard now has built-in Microsoft Exchange support. So now there is no excuse not to get a Mac in your corporate business environment.

Snow Leopard is $29 for Leopard users, it’s just an upgrade basically, not a brand new OS.

The star of the show is none other then the iPhone. They recap what was announced during the iPhone OS 3.0 event, held previously. Cut, copy and paste, landscape mode on key apps, Spotlight search throughout the phone, iPhone safari supports HTML 5 which will enables HTTP streaming of audio and video. The iPhone OS 3.0 now also supports MMS, finally.

There are a few notable features, one of them is Find My iPhone. You can log into MobileMe and basically locate your phone then make it play a sound even if it’s on silent mode. If you found out that your phone is stolen, then you could wipe the contents remotely.

Also iPhone OS 3.0 supports tethering either via USB cable or Bluetooth. However this is only subject to telco provider that choose to supports it. No idea if Maxis going to support it or not.

And for the moment everyone is waiting for, new iPhone hardware, dub as the iPhone 3G S. At first glance, it looks no different to the previous iPhone 3G. Under the hud however, is a whole other story. It’s twice as fast compared to the iPhone 3G. As much as I would like to think that the ‘S’ in iPhone 3G S stands for ‘Steve’, it’s actually stands for ‘Speed’.

Speed is not the only major upgrade on this phone. It now has a 3 megapixel camera with auto focus, and the camera does video too. You can even edit the video on the phone.

A digital compass, now not only that the phone knows where you are, it also knows which direction you are looking at or what you are looking at.

Voice control lets you talk to your phone to make it do something, make calls, play music and stuff.

Of cause the all API to this new hardware features are made available to developers, so expect to see some cool apps that uses these.

New iPhone comes in two colors, black and white and two versions, 16GB and 32GB.

We’ll post the availability of everything mentioned here in Malaysia once we got the information. We’ll also have an in-depth review/write-up on everything announced at WWDC. Till then, stay tune. It’s 4 a.m. already and I’m signing out.