Hmmm I'm tempted to un-jailbreak for this update!
It's too bad that nobody knows when 3.0 will hit the streets...
Somebody at One Infinity Loop knows. They just aren't talking. But it's sometime in June/July I'm sure.
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Highlights of Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 Preview: Copy and Paste, A2DP, MMS, Much More
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Somebody at One Infinity Loop knows. They just aren't talking. But it's sometime in June/July I'm sure.
Hmmm I'm tempted to un-jailbreak for this update!
It's too bad that nobody knows when 3.0 will hit the streets...
He said Summer/June.
I think background processes will be for the new iphone but not older ones, also add video.
I think there's a size limit with MMS on 2G phones (1st-gen iPhones). Perhaps Apple are going with current standards (3G) rather than deploying two versions of the code to do this?
I'm sure there's some way around it. Perhaps Apple will do that later, but by then, they'll have even less need to do it as they'll be hoping everyone will have moved onto at least 3G.
No it hasn't. If you don't like it, pay for a new iPhone. When you bought it, you bought it as it was, not as it *might be*.
My 3G will eventually be old and then I'll either live with what I have, or pay to get with the times.
Even though perhaps some of these things should've been in the iPhone 3G back in 2008, I think this a great step forward and am very pleased at the announcements today.
The two major things missing, for me at least, are video recording and voice dialling. Presumably, both of these would also require hardware updates, and so they are (hopefully) being saved for demos at WWDC in June, when the new iPhone will (again, hopefully) be announced. I can see someone using the voice dialling for Phil Schiller or Tim Cook or someone similar in the audience, as a nice little surprise. And the video recording would be done in the same manner as the photo slideshow was done last time.
The two major things missing, for me at least, are video recording and voice dialling. Presumably, both of these would also require hardware updates, and so they are (hopefully) being saved for demos at WWDC in June, when the new iPhone will (again, hopefully) be announced. I can see someone using the voice dialling for Phil Schiller or Tim Cook or someone similar in the audience, as a nice little surprise. And the video recording would be done in the same manner as the photo slideshow was done last time.
With the iPhone push notifications mean they are sent from a server to the iPhone. Background processes/apps are programs that are running but don't show anything on the screen. Every modern OS has a ton of these, and I'm sure the iPhone probably does too (you aren't visually aware of it though).
So what developers want, for example with AIM, is to run their apps in the background so they can check for incoming messages and such. Apple doesn't want them to because these types of apps suck up lots of CPU and memory. So instead they created push notifications which allows apps to register for these and have them sent from their servers (which route through Apple's servers) and get sent directly to the device.
It's a cool workaround, but I imagine once the hardware gets better background processes will come back for developers.
That's a load of ****, have a read of good ol' Wikipedia
Equally, tethering requires NOTHING carrier side. If your phone has a data connection all tethering is, is sharing that data connection over bluetooth. What Apple actually mean is that they're providing the functionality for the carriers to limit/charge on top for. Other than that tethering is purely a phone > computer thing.
You are missing the point. Tethering is free to use in (most of) Europe. There is no special plan, nothing to turn on. You pay for a data service (aka GPRS, EDGE, or 3G) and that's it. The carrier does not care what data and from what device you are transmitting. Why should they?
Yeah, they might even need to wait until the third generation iPhone comes out before that can happen. The current iPhone needs a little more RAM and a better battery.
Looks like more of a 2.5 update to me. In much the same way as the V2 update wasn't exactly amazing either. it was essentially just adding the app store. Still, this is good stuff
With Apple adding 1,000 APIs for developers to use, I would have to say they might have been able to skip to 4.0.
This will change a lot for 3rd party apps.
I got to imagine bluetooth would be a nice solution for mouse and keyboard control apps compared to the troublesome wifi methods right now for PC and Macs.
It is a big deal, Apple works with different carriers, so they want all of them on board at once which is why it's taking so long.
I knew that sooner or later the 1st gen phones would be feature limited by some hardware issue. I have no complaints with my-first-day-of-issue-1st-gen iphone. I'm happy I did not upgrade to a 3G phone; my 2G has been fine this past year with the software updates. By June though I will be ready for the next version of hardware and I'll get all the features then.
The 1st gen has done well by me for all this time. No complaints if I can retire it this summer for some real hardware advances.
I believe that the new 3.0 update is a step in the right direction. Many features that already existed on every single phone will be delivered with the new OS. Apart from that I expected more and I hope Apple will eventually change its mind about not allowing background applications...
Dude this is big, there are over 100 new features.Looks like more of a 2.5 update to me. In much the same way as the V2 update wasn't exactly amazing either. it was essentially just adding the app store. Still, this is good stuff
Crippled? LOL.
What a warped sense of reality some of you people have. And cheapness.
IIRC, MMS is part of 3G, and since the first-gen iPhone does not support 3G....
As far as the update goes.... It seems that they have addressed just about every complaint people had. The stereo-bluetooth is interesting, I wonder whether iPod touch gets support for that....
Sure... but it would have to reduce the size of the image to a ridiculously small image, which in turn severely reduces the quality, which Apple probably will not negotiate.
People forget Apple is still a relatively new player, they are learning and by this update seems they are listening.