Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th

[MattInOz]

Does anyone remember a few months back, apple filed that patent about the new "locked screen"?

If they implement push notifactions, obv there are going to be more notifications, so the "locked screen" would start to get crammped, i.e. with text messages, missed calls, voice messages, IM's etc.

If I remember rightly, the plan was to give the "locked screen" some sort interactivity, so you can select on of the notifications and go straight to that app, i.e. an IM, text etc. obv after unlocking it.

That could be part of the update to the OS, that'd be pretty major and warrant the 3.0 status (along with push).

Just a thought

I remember that one as well. The thing is the lock screen almost replaces the home screen as where you want to go first up.

Although I can't fully remember if you slide to unlock before you can deal with one of the notes. It would be better is each note had it's own "slide to unlock" zone. slide one way to reply the other to dismiss or something.

I also hope the Note Screen gets a high contrast no backlight version that is always active. So you can see it without the need to push the home button.

So yep push is late, with some sort of hold up that proved more complex than they first thought. I hope they know it's important at this event to be up front about the delay. Maybe it required a few parallel features to come on line before it could really be deployed.

Like say a plug-in system for the push server so that a company didn't need to host the users information in order to take advantage of the push.

 

[admanimal]

It would be nice to solicit beta testers. I'm sure every owner would be up for that. March 17th means only 3 months till release, how bad can it be at this point? Many releases have seemed like beta products.

The beta firmware and SDK will almost certainly be seeded to developers, and that will probably be enough for Apple.

 

[Masquerade]

A friend of friend that i will name it mr. A to not violatr his nda policy, told me that iphone os 3 will be called "mobile os x"

 

[mambodancer]

This is much much needed.

Ummm... did you not know that it is already there? Type command-F and see what happens.

 

[bretm]

The question is this july i be only a year into my 2 year contract will the 3.0 software update be available for the iphone 3g and will it be free?

I hope that apple will make this software update available for the current iphone 3g, like when 2.0 was made available for the 1st gen model.

i can't be bothered to buy a phone every year i can stick it out for 2 years and than upgrade my handset when iam ready?

any clues if 3.0 will be only released for the next gen iphone or will it be made available for everyone even the 1st gen iphone.

It dang well better work on any iPhone. It'd be nuts not to work on the 3g, and the 1st gen is the same machine minus the gps.

 

[Slurpy2k8]

A friend of friend that i will name it mr. A to not violatr his nda policy, told me that iphone os 3 will be called "mobile os x"

Sounds logical enough.

 

[soundsgoodtome]

One-stop shopping.

Here's a compiled list of the most popular (and not-so-popular) features hoped for. It is, of course, not comprehensive, but interesting.


iPhone 3.0 software wish-list

MISC.
- copy + paste (between apps)
- video recording
- voice dialing
- support for MMS
- wireless sync with iTunes
- syncing of notes
- background apps/multitasking (may be hardware-dependent)
- push notifications
- automatic turn-by-turn navigation (perhaps w/voice)
- tethering
- search within all fields in contacts
- file storage/access/emailing (idisk and back-to-my-mac support)

BLUETOOTH
- support for stereo headphones
- support for wireless keyboards

EMAIL
- landscape keyboard
- consolidated email (see new mail from all accounts on one page)
- view email as threads
- mail search
- sort by sender, subject, date
- distribution lists (groups)
- ability to save a phone number from email to contacts w/o calling the number
- ability to email multiple photos

HOME PAGES
- a new way to categorize/organize apps
- a way to hide seldom-used apps

SAFARI
- flash
- open links in new tabs
- search for text in web pages

SMS
- landscape keyboard
- SMS forwarding
- custom SMS tones
- make all SMS tones loud (no soft ones for quick replies)
- disable triple SMS alert
- quick-text (text shortcuts)

 

[Eric5h5]

Ummm... did you not know that it is already there? Type command-F and see what happens.

Did you not know that this is obviously about the iPhone Safari? How are you going to "type command-F" on an iPhone?

--Eric

 

[SirROM]

Contacts...

Here's one I did not see mentioned elsewhere:

How about a more complete transfer of Address Book information. I want to see names of family members, anniversary dates, etc without resorting to putting that stuff in the Notes field. I shouldn't HAVE to do that when there are already special fields for it.

Rant Off

 

[MacFly123]

Wait a minute. I'm a developer too - does that mean I'll get 3.0 before the masses, as well?? All developers?

Um, ya from what I understand. You get it because you will need to test your apps and code with it, and there will be a newer SDK too most likely.

I hope I get most of the new features with the 3.0 OS update on my iPhone 3G after the new iPhone comes out. I'm sure there will be at least a couple hardware features that will only be on the new iPhone in June and I am going to be pissed because I can't just upgrade whenever I want like everything else Apple I have because now there is a contract involved

Or can we upgrade our phone whenever we want with AT&T and is just costs more??? How does that work???

 

[OneMike]

I believe it will be available for all iphones

 

[prasannagg]

*sigh*

I don't want to get into a fight but I can't let it slip. I'd like to point you to all the other companies that release major firmware revisions for free such as Sony and Nokia.

It's just Apple making easy money.

I have used Nokia for ages.. never heard of a major software update, just bug fixes. Once you buy something, you are on your own.

 

[asdavis10]

It's all in the SDK

Should Apple seed developers with a beta of the SDK on or shortly after the presentation on Tuesday, then we will know what hardware version 3.0 will support. And, of course, that will tell us what is possible with the software. Though I totally expect to have some ideas of that after watching the presentation. They will have to give away some secrets of possible hardware support during the presentation if this is to be a big event. Can't see the reasoning for a special event if its just to show off copy & paste or MMS as these are just software omissions in the current OS. This has to be a big update if they're forgoing the 2.x or 2.2.x numbering convention. I don't specifically think that they needed to move to version 3.0 just for the release of a 2009 model iPhone. Major additions to the OS, such as background processes (though I hope they don't implement this), new Apple applications (iWork mobile and wishfully iLife mobile), etc. would warrant moving to 3.0

Things I expect to be included in version 3.0:
MMS
SMS forwarding
copy & paste
tethering (USB and bluetooth)
new version of Safari
ability to use aliases in Mail
Nike+ support

Things I hope will be included in version 3.0:
turn-by-turn GPS
voice dialing
Flash support (with an option to turn it off)
Apple's delayed Push Notification Service (background processes drain battery life)

 

[queshy]

I want more STABILITY. The current OS feels like a cow sometimes.

 

[queshy]

720p video recording? Yeah, I'd say that would only be available on future hardware... much further into the future, with that.

2086. Apple is very slow to adopt new standards like that!

 

[Becordial]

Oh what the heck...

Safari feels snapier already... Worth the update.

Lol... made me laugh

 

[SocomDude23]

All I Want

Is Flash Player.
And If There Is Copy And Paste I Want To BeAble To Disable It.

 

[TheSpaz]

keep living with your iphone at 1/3 what it can be ..

And 3 times faster.

 

[dyeung]

for those that dont know. You can get those bookmarklets that enable you to 'find' 'scroll to end page' copy paste and 'open in new window'. Just google it most of them work pretty good

 

[hNicolas]

Here's a compiled list of the most popular (and not-so-popular) features hoped for. It is, of course, not comprehensive, but interesting.


iPhone 3.0 software wish-list

MISC.
- copy + paste (between apps)
- video recording
- voice dialing
- support for MMS
- wireless sync with iTunes
- syncing of notes
- background apps/multitasking (may be hardware-dependent)
- push notifications
- automatic turn-by-turn navigation (perhaps w/voice)
- tethering
- search within all fields in contacts
- file storage/access/emailing (idisk and back-to-my-mac support)

BLUETOOTH
- support for stereo headphones
- support for wireless keyboards

EMAIL
- landscape keyboard
- consolidated email (see new mail from all accounts on one page)
- view email as threads
- mail search
- sort by sender, subject, date
- distribution lists (groups)
- ability to save a phone number from email to contacts w/o calling the number
- ability to email multiple photos

HOME PAGES
- a new way to categorize/organize apps
- a way to hide seldom-used apps

SAFARI
- flash
- open links in new tabs
- search for text in web pages

SMS
- landscape keyboard
- SMS forwarding
- custom SMS tones
- make all SMS tones loud (no soft ones for quick replies)
- disable triple SMS alert
- quick-text (text shortcuts)

Yes, but can it brew a nice cup of coffee?

 

[SAG3194]

Apple iPhone OS 3.0

Do any of you think this will be beta tested by Beta testers who were accepted before the deadline?

 

[soundsgoodtome]

Here's one I did not see mentioned elsewhere:

How about a more complete transfer of Address Book information. I want to see names of family members, anniversary dates, etc without resorting to putting that stuff in the Notes field. I shouldn't HAVE to do that when there are already special fields for it.

Rant Off

Anniversary entry is already available on the iPhone:

Add Field > Date > Anniversary


EDIT: I misunderstood your original comment. I thought you wanted to *enter* these fields on the iPhone, but now I see you want to *view* fields that are entered in Address Book. My mistake.

 

[snowleopard48]

I Say add some mac apps to 3.0 like iWork & iLife

Still, Cut & Paste would be nice, but in what app? and how would they add it to the iPhone UI?

I hope 3.0 is for iPod touch too...

 

[jnguyen4]

I Say add some mac apps to 3.0 like iWork & iLife

Still, Cut & Paste would be nice, but in what app? and how would they add it to the iPhone UI?

I hope 3.0 is for iPod touch too...

dood why would u want iwork on a small screen? Creating spreadsheets?

 

[GfPQqmcRKUvP]

Still, Cut & Paste would be nice, but in what app?

Mail? Safari? Hell, even the ability to highlight a couple lines of text so I can get rid of a bunch of words with one 'backspace' keystroke would be helpful.

and how would they add it to the iPhone UI?

Multi-touch gestures, multi-tasking, notification areas.

A Pre. What's that? Do you have one that you could show me?

We were hyping the iPhone 6 months before it came out. The Pre is within 3 months of launch and there have been loads of test units that have been reviewed by gadget blogs all over the internet. I understand you were just trying to be a smart***, but it wasn't clever or substantial.