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Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th

Who here thinks we're going to see some 10.6 features in parallel?
Would Apple really based v3 ipHone on Leopard, rather than there upcoming OS?
With the potential for a Netbook coming soon, i'd say they have a hybrid version on their hands, relating to snow leopard, allowing some of the features to flow all the way to the iPhone and Touch.
 
iSamurai said:
it'd be really d1ck if apple doesn't allow 3.0 to be installed on the 1st generation iphone... (but it'd be time to upgrade anyway) :p
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Backwards compatibility is not always a good thing, It is one of the main reasons microsoft windows os sucks so bad. To innovate you have to learn to let go of the past.

plus It could be argued that a cellphone device is designed to have a 2yr life span...so normally the 1st gen iphone would be headed to the recycle bin, more likely though they will just be jailbroken and handed down to the kids to use as an ipod touch.

it is interesting to witness the computer/phone merger....at somepoint in the near future phones will start to affect notebook sales
 
t0mat0 said:
Would Apple really based v3 ipHone on Leopard, rather than there upcoming OS?
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Apple TV still runs on Tiger...

Also, it appears that the improvements in 10.6 are geared towards the computer.

64-bit - no need for a phone
Quicktime X - brings features already in the iPhone to the computer
Enterprise support - already in the iPhone
Multicore support - possibly, but may be ported backwards to "Leopard"
 
dant19 said:
I'm not certain I understand what you mean in your first paragraph? You want a wallpaper on the home screen and no icons? Can you not do that already, with the locked screen? And you can customize the number of icons on the home page, unless you mean get rid of the default apple ones?

I am however totally with you on the ical notifications. It would be great if you could tick a box or whatever, that allowed all of your events for that day to be displayed in the morning, surely wouldnt be too dificult to implement. But for single events, you can make them appear at on the home screen, 5mins b4, 10 mins etc. Though it is annoying having it beep at you, just to appear would be nice.

Apologies if I have misunderstood what you siad on anything.
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I'd prefer it not on the locked screen, but the main active home screen. I'm only on the locked screen to unlock it.

and upcoming calendar events is useful to have before the alarms go off, just so you can have a quick glance in the morning of whats coming up, or now and then check. I have that on my nokia phone and its very useful. RSS feed of the news headlines would be good too.
 
Text message forwarding!!!!!

A phone that cannot forward text messages is just ridiculous!

Toph.
 
i0Nic said:
I want the next iPhone to be the palm
Pre with itunes support and the app store.
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So when will this Palm Pre be released? It's already pretty much mid-March.

Or is this vapourware just glorified takeover bait . . .
 
mrklaw said:
I'd prefer it not on the locked screen, but the main active home screen. I'm only on the locked screen to unlock it.

and upcoming calendar events is useful to have before the alarms go off, just so you can have a quick glance in the morning of whats coming up, or now and then check. I have that on my nokia phone and its very useful. RSS feed of the news headlines would be good too.
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I like the RSS feed idea. The locked/home screen has so much potential.

So you want the notifactions to stay on the home screen? So like divide the home screen in half, notifactions on the top, apps on the botton?
 
Mercury7 said:
Backwards compatibility is not always a good thing, It is one of the main reasons microsoft windows os sucks so bad. To innovate you have to learn to let go of the past.

plus It could be argued that a cellphone device is designed to have a 2yr life span...so normally the 1st gen iphone would be headed to the recycle bin, more likely though they will just be jailbroken and handed down to the kids to use as an ipod touch.

it is interesting to witness the computer/phone merger....at somepoint in the near future phones will start to affect notebook sales
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The originally announced reason for subscription accounting was to satisfy GAAP requirements for promised system/feature upgrades over (at least) 24 month useful lifetime. The original iPhones were sold through last spring so still have another year to go on those, unless apple plans to have two different operating systems out there for next 15 months (and even that would be a PR nightmare). My bet is 3.0 will be fully compatible, but like 2.0 and 3G iPhones (GPS), there probably will be some hardware features that 3.0 supports that original iPhones lack.
 
*LTD* said:
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Or is this vapourware just glorified takeover bait . . .
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Takeover bait. Elevation Partners doubled down to rescue original investment, and now is offering half it's latest buy (which has doubled). Original $$ will still be at risk, but Palm still afloat, and claims it will be able to walk on water by July. They want a buyer.
 
Dont tell anybody.
Accordding mr A the keyboard can be replaced with
A new panel called Text.
A wheel to select or drive the cursor within the text
and buttons to initiate select, for copy and paste.
A gesture will fake the wheel control for selecting non editable text areas.

Ok a bonus: up to 3 widgets on lockscreen



Dontbexpect to be true
 
Call me wierd, but there is one thing that I always wish Apple had implemented, and that was a choice as to what "kind" of Keyboard you have.

i.e. On the Tocco and Viewty, despite being touch screen, you can still punch out texts in the conventional way.

Whilst I appreciate that the iPhone can write texts at a much faster speed using qwerty, I personally would prefer "predictive texting" in the traditional manner (If given the choice) numbers 1-9, abc, def, etc.
 
theGAPkid said:
Whilst I appreciate that the iPhone can write texts at a much faster speed using qwerty, I personally would prefer "predictive texting" in the traditional manner (If given the choice) numbers 1-9, abc, def, etc.
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this is a good idea. then they could make the virtual buttons bigger => easier to hit => faster to write
 
Anyone else notice that is event will make it major Apple news 4 weeks in a row, we've had:

Safari Beta

New Macs

New Shuffle

iPhone OS 3.0 event

Didn't something similar happen last year around Late Jan/Early February where we had 4 or 5 weeks of announcements in a row?
 
Mercury7 said:
Backwards compatibility is not always a good thing, It is one of the main reasons microsoft windows os sucks so bad. To innovate you have to learn to let go of the past.

plus It could be argued that a cellphone device is designed to have a 2yr life span...so normally the 1st gen iphone would be headed to the recycle bin, more likely though they will just be jailbroken and handed down to the kids to use as an ipod touch.

it is interesting to witness the computer/phone merger....at somepoint in the near future phones will start to affect notebook sales
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Not only that but iPhone 2G owners are the early adopters here. When in history have we not been steamrolled. It comes with the territory and we know it's part of the deal for having the latest first. I have a 2G phone myself and if it turns out 3.0 will not work completely, or at all, on it AND 3.0 has some cool new "gotta have" features I'm in, no question. Otherwise I'll just continue to use my 2G, contract free. That's hardly a raw deal. Frankly I consider the 2.0 upgrade a nice "bonus" to the 1.0 s/w phone I bought.

But bottom line 2G owners have no basis to complain. The release of 3.0 will not "break" their phone. Owners can continue to use it, jailbreak it, unlock it, sell it, use it as a Touch, a VoiP phone, whatever. Any 2G owner that starts screaming if 3.0 doesn't work might as well wear a shirt that says "I'm a self-entitled brat." Feature improvements wait for no one.
 
Tablet 10"

Maybe it will support the new 10" tablet device. Maybe this device will allow the new iPhone to slot into the tablet and run as the power to drive the new screen?
 
Jayomat said:
this is a good idea. then they could make the virtual buttons bigger => easier to hit => faster to write
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Exactly. Sometimes when I get carried away at present, I can look down and realise Ive missed out spaces for pretty much the whole text :p perhaps I just need more practice, but yeah, thats one of my main wishes :apple:
 
No other (mobile) company would support major new features on a 2 year old phone, so I doubt apple will be much different. I'm hoping they bring out a new phone for June/July as that is when my current non iPhone contract runs out.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Not only that but iPhone 2G owners are the early adopters here. When in history have we not been steamrolled. It comes with the territory and we know it's part of the deal for having the latest first. I have a 2G phone myself and if it turns out 3.0 will not work completely, or at all, on it AND 3.0 has some cool new "gotta have" features I'm in, no question. Otherwise I'll just continue to use my 2G, contract free. That's hardly a raw deal. Frankly I consider the 2.0 upgrade a nice "bonus" to the 1.0 s/w phone I bought.

But bottom line 2G owners have no basis to complain. The release of 3.0 will not "break" their phone. Owners can continue to use it, jailbreak it, unlock it, sell it, use it as a Touch, a VoiP phone, whatever. Any 2G owner that starts screaming if 3.0 doesn't work might as well wear a shirt that says "I'm a self-entitled brat." Feature improvements wait for no one.
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here here

Though we all know the amount of rage deposited on the forum will be immense if that is the case!!
 
mcmadhatter said:
No other (mobile) company would support major new features on a 2 year old phone, so I doubt apple will be much different. I'm hoping they bring out a new phone for June/July as that is when my current non iPhone contract runs out.
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Contract doesn't mean anything for the iphone, we were all able to upgrade our 2G to 3G phones without issue. The 2 year contract just gets restarted.
 
GeekGuys said:
Maybe it will support the new 10" tablet device. Maybe this device will allow the new iPhone to slot into the tablet and run as the power to drive the new screen?
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I just find this silly. Why would an iPhone be the powering device for a larger screen? I'm not killing my battery just so I have access to a bigger screen. Dedicated, user-swappable battery!

But I'm really torn between selling my phone and then upgrading to the new iPhone (if it comes out....:rolleyes: ). Like I've preserved the baseband and such so it does have increased value over the new stock models.

Options that I would like:
-copy and paste
-text forwarding
-text message sound customization (ringtone, why not this?)
-ability to hide icons (sbsettings is amazing, and I use it but wouldnt having apple do it make it better?)


Decisions, decisions.
 
overcast said:
Contract doesn't mean anything for the iphone, we were all able to upgrade our 2G to 3G phones without issue. The 2 year contract just gets restarted.
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Not so fast. Original iPhones were purchased at full price with some monthly subsidies from T. 3G was subsidized, w/ big $$ going up front to apple. It may turn into one of those "eligible for upgrade" situations, with variable pricing depending how long ago 3G purchased. But no point in worrying about it yet.
 
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