Apple held their “Let’s Talk iPhone” event today. Tim Cook, the new CEO, had a lot to talk about. Here’s a quick rundown of the highlights from the event.

• The next iPhone is not the iPhone 5. It’s the iPhone 4S, which features an 8 megapixel camera, a dual-core A5 chip clocked at 1GHz, and an intelligent assistant function called Siri that helps you navigate your phone. It’s due out on October 14th and will be priced at $199 for 16GB, and $299 for 32GB. There’s also a new 64GB tier for $399.
• The 8GB iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 price have both dropped to $99.
• Sprint will begin selling the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S immediately.
• We can expect to get iOS 5 on October 12th. Apple is launching iCloud the same day as well as a brand new white iPod Touch. The price on that has been lowered to $199. The 32GB model will be $299, and the 64GB model $399.
• The iPod Nano is now $149 for 16GB and $129 for 8GB.
• Infinity Blade 2 is coming to iOS on December 1st. It will take full advantage of the new A5 chip, which is said to increase graphics performance seven times.
• In one of the more bizarre announcements from Apple in recent years, the company will tackle the greeting card industry with a new app that allows you to snail mail a greeting card to a friend or relative for a small fee. The app is called Cards.
• Tim Cook reported that 250 million iOS devices have been sold to date, 18 billion apps have been downloaded, and 16 billion songs have been sold through iTunes.
• iTunes Match, the new “iTunes in the cloud” service first announced way back in June, will be available for $24.99 a year starting at the end of this month.

As you can see, there are a mountain of things for Apple fans to look forward to through the end of the year. The only question now is how long it will take to root the iOS 5 release build.