Apple and AT&T Preparing for iPhone 3.0 Launch

[Remixen]

im tempted to try it -- the biggest reason i want the 3G S is because of the video recording and voice control. If it will install, I'll be happy for a while.

Have it on my 3G, and it's working smoothly. I guess I'm going to download the proper version when it's out, just to see if it is less buggy!

The 3.0 is a bit buggy, apple's own apps are quitting the wrong way for instance. Any one else noticing this?

 

[espoir]

The 3.0 is a bit buggy, apple's own apps are quitting the wrong way for instance. Any one else noticing this?

I totally agree. There's a number of small bugs with 3.0 GM (which is probably the 3.0 final version to be revealed 17th june)

- Bluetooth A2DP profile seems to work (except for playback control which only supports play/pause at the moment) but is a bit buggy like sometimes it won't let you turn Bluetooth off until reboot or some small slow downs of a sound while say watching youtube videos
- Some problems with animation smoothness are quite obvious - you are going to see not smoth animation all across the OS
- Some problems with fonts in Notes application are also present (not always)
- Some overall slowdowns happen from time to time to the OS

But anyway - many and many of new features work great - copy & paste, Safari (really seems snappier this time ), exchange support, spotlight search and so on. I can definately tell that 3.0 update gives the feeling of a new phone with tones small changes and features. It makes me hold the phone in hands like if I just bought it

 

[darijoe]

The iPhone 3.0 firmware is officially launching on June 17th.

I take it that it will not be released til June 18th in Australia, NZ and east Asia... that's one disadvantage of being ahead of the rest of the world

 

[daviszo]

Yay!

Thanks for using my rumor!!

At&t is driving me nutso

I cant wait for free MMS although I have the unlimited with my family plan so it wouldnt have cost me anyway. . .

For now Ill just have to keep emailing.

 

[Chundles]

I take it that it will not be released til June 18th in Australia, NZ and east Asia... that's one disadvantage of being ahead of the rest of the world

All the au and nz sites say the 17th, the Asia site says the 18th. I'd love it to be the 17th but I think we'll have to wait an extra day.

 

[eaglesfanone]

Problem?

So yea i downloaded the GM version of 3.0 last week when gizmodo posted that it was available on torrent pages. I subsequently restored my phone with it and now i got it. I was wondering though if anything weird will happen when i sync my phone on wednesday. i mean, i dont want my phone to be bricked or anything. anyone know what would happen with this?

 

[charltonx]

Not long now, only two more days, I really thought it was going to drag when 3.0 was announced in March but it's gone fairly quickly.

Is it being released PST, so we'll get it over here early evening on Wednesday?

 

[hokka]

3.0 GM is a bit buggy

Had 3.0 GM on my iPhone 3G since Friday, MMS via Optus seems to work, the OS is still buggy, slowdown, unresponsive buttons, wierd freezes (Safari, had to force restart) and weird crashes (3rd party apps - Darkroom for example), transition into search screen isn't all that smooth.

I also tested Find my iPhone, it sort of works in Sydney, the message I tested took almost an hour to get to the phone, when I tried to find it on the map, it showed up the last place I lived - from 3 months ago! How could that be? It did eventually work but Mobile Me seems not very acurate in that it says the phone is "Offline" when it's next to me and not turned off, strange! Also while it said "offline" (the light under the phone becomes greyed out, same as MacRumors' forum lights) then you can't make it look for the phone, I wonder WHEN does it become "offline"? And say if the thief switches the phone off, will it be offline or what? need more clarification.

I hope later this week when they release the final version will have all these issues resolved. Also be aware to activate Find My iPhone you HAVE to activate Mobile Me's email account and turn Push Notification on you iPhone, for me that has a large data plan it's okay, but if you only have a puny 500MB plan then I'd becareful if you don't wish to go over and having another email account on my phone (I have 3 already) can be a bit of pain, back and forth, know what I mean?

Anyone else had similar experience?

 

[lwongveros]

has anyone upgraded their iPhone 2G to 3.0 that previously had the phone unlocked via ZiPhone (or other) methods? When I unlocked it at version 2.0 I was able to apply the regular upgrades via iTunes. Does restoring the 3.0 GM lose the unlock capability?

 

[robotica]

has anyone upgraded their iPhone 2G to 3.0 that previously had the phone unlocked via ZiPhone (or other) methods? When I unlocked it at version 2.0 I was able to apply the regular upgrades via iTunes. Does restoring the 3.0 GM lose the unlock capability?

this is a goooood question

 

[BostonApple]

I have been using the 3.0 software on my iPhone 3G for about a week now with zero issues. Everything seems to be working smoothly. The find my iPhone works 100% perfect through MobileMe. I have also enabled the tethering feature which is also working 100% perfect and is very fast.

 

[mackmgg]

- The iPhone 3.0 re-download charging message has been removed and was a bug according to AppAdvice. Re-downloading apps in 3.0 should be the same as the current firmware ( which means free).

Actually, once you sign out, then sign in with another account, the recharge for apps thing comes back. The only way as far as I know to get it free again, is to restore the iDevice.

 

[iPhoneNYC]

ATT continues to be the weak link here in the US. Why do we have to wait for services that they've had months to get ready. Why no tethering now and ATT only comes forth when 21 other providers offer the service. Imagine having the iPhone without ATT!

 

[esquared]

Shipped!

Just got the email from Apple, White 32GB 3Gs is on the way!

 

[darkpaw]

Not quite right... You can restore the iPhone, if you find it again, from the last backup you did.

From:http://www.apple.com/uk/mobileme/whats-new/

I know, that's why I said wipe it only if you're sure you're never going to find it again. If it's lost and MobileMe can't find it because, say, the battery's dead, when someone finds it and charges it if you've wiped it MobileMe cannot find it.

 

[darkpaw]

...Apple's own apps are quitting the wrong way for instance. Any one else noticing this?

Yeah, I've noticed it a lot with Mail and Safari. They just disappear instead of fading into the distance. I already bugged this with Apple.

 

[corykane]

MMS free?

Can someone explain what the MMS deal is going to be? If I am getting the new iPhone and have the $5 text messaging package for 200 text messages, will the MMS count as text messages or will they be $0.30 like they are now for my sony ericsson w810i?

 

[Romanesq]

different here

Had 3.0 GM on my iPhone 3G since Friday, MMS via Optus seems to work, the OS is still buggy, slowdown, unresponsive buttons, wierd freezes (Safari, had to force restart) and weird crashes (3rd party apps - Darkroom for example), transition into search screen isn't all that smooth.

I also tested Find my iPhone, it sort of works in Sydney, the message I tested took almost an hour to get to the phone, when I tried to find it on the map, it showed up the last place I lived - from 3 months ago! How could that be? It did eventually work but Mobile Me seems not very acurate in that it says the phone is "Offline" when it's next to me and not turned off, strange! Also while it said "offline" (the light under the phone becomes greyed out, same as MacRumors' forum lights) then you can't make it look for the phone, I wonder WHEN does it become "offline"? And say if the thief switches the phone off, will it be offline or what? need more clarification.

I hope later this week when they release the final version will have all these issues resolved. Also be aware to activate Find My iPhone you HAVE to activate Mobile Me's email account and turn Push Notification on you iPhone, for me that has a large data plan it's okay, but if you only have a puny 500MB plan then I'd becareful if you don't wish to go over and having another email account on my phone (I have 3 already) can be a bit of pain, back and forth, know what I mean?

Anyone else had similar experience?

The find my iphone showed a green light on the Mobileme webpage. It did not find the phone but a short message was sent and received on the iPhone in about two minutes. An email confirmation did show up in mail as well.

I see nothing in the setting though about notifications for push unlike the picture on page one here. Okay, I read up on the settings.
You have to go into mail, contacts, calendars in Settings and go into Mobileme and turn the find my iphone option to on. Then you also need to go back and go into Fetch New Data and turn on Push.

It works. It pulled up a Goggle Map in about a minute in my area and then narrowed down the location a bit more showing the approximate location. It then gives a time stamp.

Not too shabby.


So don't know about that.

 

[Max E Verde]

I don't think Street View (and the other Maps features that were in iPhone OS 2.2 for the iPhone) was announced, unless it was during the FAQ and I missed it, but it has been there since Beta 1. You will also get walking and mass transit directions on your iPod touch.

I just tested Find My iPhone. Unlike the person above me it works fine for me. Took just a second to find my approximate location (not shown as I don't want a public forum to see my location) and about 30 seconds to find a closer location. It took less than 1 second each to send 2 messages. One without a sound and one with. The sound is said to go off for 2 minutes, but if you unlock your iPhone and press the OK button on the alert that pops up, you can turn it off earlier. Also Apple sends you an email for every message you send. Unfortunately, if you leave the ringer volume low, it will play at the ringer volume. I was hoping it would always play at max volume.

I have my iPod touch with Find my iPhone on, and according to an FAQ, your iPod touch must be connected to Wi-Fi (for obvious reasons), but it also must be not asleep. My guess is this is because Wi-Fi turns off on the iPod touch on sleep to save battery.

By the way, has anyone found any apps other than Tap Tap and the AIM beta that use push yet?

 

[hokka]

Can someone explain what the MMS deal is going to be? If I am getting the new iPhone and have the $5 text messaging package for 200 text messages, will the MMS count as text messages or will they be $0.30 like they are now for my sony ericsson w810i?

I think you've just answered your own question, I think it's the same with all carriers world wide, unless they specifically say incl. M(ultimedia)MS, then you can bet on your mother's grave they will bend you over as it's not "Text" message, and that's exactly why people were defending Apple on not having MMS for a long time since email was (sort) of free while MMS will cost you much more for much less.

 

[shawnce]

With John Cormack saying that a 2 times speedup for games is possible on older PowerVR MBX based iPhones and iPod Touches if Apple focused on optimizing the OpenGL stack, has anyone looked at whether iPhone 3.0 brings any OpenGL improvements?

Apple implemented improvements to many layers in the iPhone OS that will benefit prior generation iPhones. I have no idea of how much those could help game performance however...

 

[lkal3]

Hello from Greece

same here in Greece itunes say 18th.Another extra day for us?

All the au and nz sites say the 17th, the Asia site says the 18th. I'd love it to be the 17th but I think we'll have to wait an extra day.

 

[hokka]

I just tested Find My iPhone. Unlike the person above me it works fine for me. Took just a second to find my approximate location (not shown as I don't want a public forum to see my location) and about 30 seconds to find a closer location. It took less than 1 second each to send 2 messages...

Thanks for that, I've just tested again, same thing in the beginning, it defaults to where I used to live 3 months ago, while it says "refining searches, this may take up to 3 minutes" it took 2-3 minutes to finally located it, so i think it maybe (wireless) network related? or provider related? This is Australia after all, 20million people on an island the size of US and 3 carriers all sell iPhones, so they don't need try very hard

 

[Jamie 360]

No 3.0 for 2G?

<<This firmware is specifically for the new iPhone 3G S (iPhone2,1) so is not recommended to be installed on older iPhones.>>

So does this imply that you shouldn't put 3.0 on the 2G? I was planning on leaving my 2G firmware as is on my 8 gig 2G anyway--it will be fun to compare the new features on the new phone to the old version--but I can't help but think 3.0 might be a little sluggish on a 4gig 2G?

 

[Love]

A page in MobileMe's help says: "After you delete all the information on your device, you won’t able to use Find My iPhone to locate your device on a map or send it a message."

That's common sense really, as you have to enable something on the phone to be able to find it. However, it's a warning that once you remote wipe your iPhone is essentially gone. Be very careful before you wipe it. Be sure you can't get it back.

Just tested this on my iPhone 3G running 3.0 GM. (It didn't have anything on it.)

I am still able to locate the device, just plugged it back in to iTunes and reactivated it. I have a SIM PIN, and a bug with 3.0 is that when it asks me to enter the SIM PIN, it appears to be in a language might be something like Ukrainian or the like.