2G phones were sold as a platform with the promise of upgrades/feature improvements. Sort of like a looseleaf service, with occasional updates. A two year term from purchase as late as June '08. 2G owners will have no right to complain about hardware features/improvements, but software/application updates should be able to run on 2G--either 3.0 inself, or an emulation.
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Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17th
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2G phones were sold as a platform with the promise of upgrades/feature improvements. Sort of like a looseleaf service, with occasional updates. A two year term from purchase as late as June '08. 2G owners will have no right to complain about hardware features/improvements, but software/application updates should be able to run on 2G--either 3.0 inself, or an emulation.
This will indeed be interesting to see. For me I'm already at this point. My current computer is an original MacBook which I got because I liked the portability. For my limited mobile tasks - music, video, web, email - my iPhone is more than capable.
There are a few things I'd miss but it's got to the stage where I'd go iMac + iPhone rather than a notebook now.
My 13-year-old will think he's died and gone to heaven if I "repurpose" my 2G as a touch for him.
Here's to hoping that Apple releases some new hardware that "forces" me to do it!
Just hold delete for about a second and it will keep going after you let go. (I've only seen it happen in Safari so far).
I'd be happy with..
- Push notification service
- Better quality camera with flash
- Increased storage (32GB)
- Nike+ integration.
- Wi-Fi syncing with iTunes
next version iphone annouced wwdc 2nd week of june, 3.0 software and new iphone launched early july-just in time for steve to present the launch
-just a thought
yes but that's our fault because we want everything now and then of course it doesn't work ! I prefert to wait and have something working fine out of the box
Spaz: I just tried it out, seemed to be fine. I'll keep trying later. I mean I'm not into finding bugs or making them 'work' but it would be neat to see what the problem is.
Also, I would like to add voice-dialing to my list. I want to be able to click the headphone thing in some way, say a name and be connected. Ever walked when it was snowing and had to make a call? You not only have to touch the screen, you have to pull your gloves off! Torture I say.
Also, I would like to add voice-dialing to my list. I want to be able to click the headphone thing in some way, say a name and be connected. Ever walked when it was snowing and had to make a call? You not only have to touch the screen, you have to pull your gloves off! Torture I say.
Alll I want is a way to organize my apps so I don't need to go through 6 pages to find the one I need.
Try it while responding to a MacRumors post. I don't know... it just happens. I see it all the time.
Yeah, that's really hilarious. Open your mind...
I have a 60GB music library that rotates based on a very smart playlist sync'ed to my 8GB 1st Gen iPhone. After a first sync with the dock, I'd love to just walk into my house and have the few MB of photos, app updates, and songs based on my smart playlist update themselves over WiFi automatically. There's been rumors of this happening over MobileMe on-the-fly, surely it could be done on my own local WiFi when in range.
Yeah, that's really hilarious. Open your mind...
I have a 60GB music library that rotates based on a very smart playlist sync'ed to my 8GB 1st Gen iPhone. After a first sync with the dock, I'd love to just walk into my house and have the few MB of photos, app updates, and songs based on my smart playlist update themselves over WiFi automatically. There's been rumors of this happening over MobileMe on-the-fly, surely it could be done on my own local WiFi when in range.
Exactly.
I found lftrghtparadigm's reply rude
I left feedback to apple a while back to have the UI freely revolve to the first page forwards or backwards and not having it be like a book right now that if I want to go to the last page I don't have to flick my finger across 8 times from the home page. Hope this is a fix too.
Well of course they have different SDKs, they are two different operating systems. They have different user interfaces, and the iPhone has to have a set resolution. The language is also a bit different thus the need for two different SDKs. Apple doesn't want people to think that the power of the iPhone is limited because it is a stripped down version of OS X. The other SDK just adds support for Cocoa Touch and all of the user interface elements of the iPhone.
I thought this up a while ago and thought it would be cool... implement up and down-swipes on the springboard to bring you to user-configurable pages. For example, up-swipe could bring you to the phone dialpad, and down-swipe could bring you to a new text message.
BT stereo headsets
I hope they finally do more with BT, like being able to send file's to other devices and recieve them of course and being able to connect a stereo headset via BT , thats what i'm hoping for.
MMS, lol,i never ever get one from anybody , i'm sort of surprised so many people want that functionality or better yet use it, email does a much better job for this function, and if those people just email me the picture form there phone instead of mms then the quality is much better, but hey there phone probably does not support that functionality and i sure don't want apple to back in time to meet the older phones limitations ;-).
Copy Paste? Never mist it either.
Lets hope they come up with something that nobody expected ;-).
I hope they finally do more with BT, like being able to send file's to other devices and recieve them of course and being able to connect a stereo headset via BT , thats what i'm hoping for.
MMS, lol,i never ever get one from anybody , i'm sort of surprised so many people want that functionality or better yet use it, email does a much better job for this function, and if those people just email me the picture form there phone instead of mms then the quality is much better, but hey there phone probably does not support that functionality and i sure don't want apple to back in time to meet the older phones limitations ;-).
Copy Paste? Never mist it either.
Lets hope they come up with something that nobody expected ;-).
I've seen it in notes too. But I think only with 2.0.1.
It does often happen in safari though (OS 2.1 for me.).
will the iphone update affect ipods?
I have been thinking in buying myself and ipod touch and I was going to do it this weekend but now I am afraid to buy one and 2 weeks later there is a new one (even if I end up buying the current version, i'd rather get a discounted ipod which I assume will be if a new one comes along. Any thougthts?
I have been thinking in buying myself and ipod touch and I was going to do it this weekend but now I am afraid to buy one and 2 weeks later there is a new one (even if I end up buying the current version, i'd rather get a discounted ipod which I assume will be if a new one comes along. Any thougthts?