Almost as nice as having 4GB of RAM in the next iPhone. And about as realistic.
Maybe, MAYBE, Apple will double the RAM to 256MB. But to give it laptop-scale amount of RAM? No way.
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Almost as nice as having 4GB of RAM in the next iPhone. And about as realistic.
Maybe, MAYBE, Apple will double the RAM to 256MB. But to give it laptop-scale amount of RAM? No way.
Um, just tried it. Youtube.com videos still works. It appears that the latest update to the iPhone allows youtube videos to be played much like quicktime videos.
Not as bad as some of the mockups of how it would work.
I just cannot wait for copy and paste. It's been very hard trying to have a productive experience with my iPhone, especially when trying to take text from an email and plug it into the browser.
Forgive me for saying this, but the 3.0 software needs to improve the iphone a lot.
I love my Iphone I really do, but I do find it ifustrating on the odd occasions that I need copy and paste and the other odd occasion where someone sends me an MMS and I have to memorise the details in order to log on and see the message.
Video recording would be handy, but FOR ME (and I say it again FOR ME) it isn't everything.
I need background notification or whatever way they are implementing it. If 3.0 is a let down then alas I will be returning to blackberry after a 2 year break.
If I was still requiring my phone as more of a business tool rather than consumer it would have gone a long time ago! The lack of consolidation of inboxes is a problem. I have to go through 4 mailboxes to clear all my messages and that doesn't include SMS. Why can't I just have an inbox with EVERYTHING including SMS, all mail accounts and IM?
Finally, and this really isn't an Iphone problem and just something I really miss.....blackberry messenger. Everyone is on it and it just integrates with your inbox so you don't have to open an app to see the messages. They just come up on your inbox.
So 3.0 has a lot to do to keep me an Iphone customer. Problem is that I won't be able to upgrade hardware until I hit the end of my contract which isn't until Jan 2011 which means I will probably be waiting for the Iphone after the next one!!! ;-)
After all that....I love so much about the Iphone and will miss a lot about what it does so well too!
I love my Iphone I really do, but I do find it ifustrating on the odd occasions that I need copy and paste and the other odd occasion where someone sends me an MMS and I have to memorise the details in order to log on and see the message.
Video recording would be handy, but FOR ME (and I say it again FOR ME) it isn't everything.
I need background notification or whatever way they are implementing it. If 3.0 is a let down then alas I will be returning to blackberry after a 2 year break.
If I was still requiring my phone as more of a business tool rather than consumer it would have gone a long time ago! The lack of consolidation of inboxes is a problem. I have to go through 4 mailboxes to clear all my messages and that doesn't include SMS. Why can't I just have an inbox with EVERYTHING including SMS, all mail accounts and IM?
Finally, and this really isn't an Iphone problem and just something I really miss.....blackberry messenger. Everyone is on it and it just integrates with your inbox so you don't have to open an app to see the messages. They just come up on your inbox.
So 3.0 has a lot to do to keep me an Iphone customer. Problem is that I won't be able to upgrade hardware until I hit the end of my contract which isn't until Jan 2011 which means I will probably be waiting for the Iphone after the next one!!! ;-)
After all that....I love so much about the Iphone and will miss a lot about what it does so well too!
AGREE!! Apple would've taken a LOT more criticism for giving us ****** video than no video. The video from jailbreak apps is horrible. For whatever reason.
you say Imagine, but I'd be willing to bet A LOT that the next iPhone model, the very next, matches those specs or beats them.
Minimum 700 MHz / 256 mb of RAM
A model with 512 mb of RAM will probably surface in 2010.
I can't wait until tomorrow... seems like it can't come fast enough? Does anyone else think that they might give us an in-between update like 2.3 to hold us over until the big 3.0 update? Wouldn't it be nice to have a little slice of 3.0 now, so we have something new to play with while we wait?
In theory, without a fullfeatured word processing app, this ^ is the only legitimate, justifiable use of C&P on the iPhone...
...and really, how much of a hang up is it? I mean, REALLY?
I've used nothing but an iPhone as a portable for the last 2 straight years, (and I use every feature it has!), and i can't help but realize that most desire for copy & paste is:
1. a massive exaggeration
&
2. a joke, as part of the running joke
I hope so, remember last year? A lot of us thought 2.0 would be available on the day the SDK was announced, the "road map" event. Then we thought it would be available at WWDC. Wrong again. That was a miserable wait.
Well, I never said it would happen. Just that it would be nice. What would be better is if Apple used SRAM for RAM as opposed to DRAM. That would be freaking sweet.
The Battery is the Key
Knowing how Apple feels about battery life - combined with our real-world experience, in my view the current battery limitations is the key to why the first two generation iPhones have certain feature limitations. If people were shooting video, they'd blaze through the battery - not only running it down, but increasing the number of charge/recharge cycles dramatically - shortening the life-span.
So, if you're not going to enable video, why have an improved camera? (video on the jailbreak iPhones is terrible).
With a poor battery, the OS has to manage power usage by limiting multi-tasking, background processing, etc. So that's mostly crippled. If so, than why have a faster processor and more RAM if you can't afford to use it?
Once Apple figures out how to cram more battery into the iPhone, they'll add a faster processor and more RAM, a better camera with video, etc, etc.
There's going to be three 3.0 versions of iPhone software: One for the 1st gen, one for the 2nd gen (iPhone 3G), and one for the improved iPhone - 3rd gen - coming this year. Not to mention the Touch.
People with the first two generation iPhones are going to be pissed because their 3.0 software will lack something the new phone has....
Knowing how Apple feels about battery life - combined with our real-world experience, in my view the current battery limitations is the key to why the first two generation iPhones have certain feature limitations. If people were shooting video, they'd blaze through the battery - not only running it down, but increasing the number of charge/recharge cycles dramatically - shortening the life-span.
So, if you're not going to enable video, why have an improved camera? (video on the jailbreak iPhones is terrible).
With a poor battery, the OS has to manage power usage by limiting multi-tasking, background processing, etc. So that's mostly crippled. If so, than why have a faster processor and more RAM if you can't afford to use it?
Once Apple figures out how to cram more battery into the iPhone, they'll add a faster processor and more RAM, a better camera with video, etc, etc.
There's going to be three 3.0 versions of iPhone software: One for the 1st gen, one for the 2nd gen (iPhone 3G), and one for the improved iPhone - 3rd gen - coming this year. Not to mention the Touch.
People with the first two generation iPhones are going to be pissed because their 3.0 software will lack something the new phone has....
Unless it has MMS and Thethering, I'll go to Palm PRE or another smart phone w/ MMS. Come on Apple!
There is absolutely no reason MMS shouldn't be in this update. Actually there's no reason it shouldn't have been a feature on the iPhone from the beginning. I'm so sick and tired of receiving MMS from friends and either ignoring them or replying back that my super cool iPhone can't deal with MMSs while their piece of crap phone can take and send both pictures and video.
Copy and Paste. Yay.
I'd imagine they could implement MMS features if they wanted too, but will instead do so when they release a new version of the phone. (I realize how pessimistic I sound haha).
Copy and Paste. Yay.
I'd imagine they could implement MMS features if they wanted too, but will instead do so when they release a new version of the phone. (I realize how pessimistic I sound haha).
Won't they have to then charge you for sending and receiving MMS because it goes through the phone instead of being part of your unlimited data? Just use email... it's better anyway.
how about simply being able to forward a sms message?
something so simple yet frustrating i can't do it...
something so simple yet frustrating i can't do it...
As much sense as this argument makes, there is really no point in repeating.
People that think they need MMS are not going to be swayed by e-mail.
I think Apple has done a sufficient job at rolling their eyes at these people, who would prefer to spend more for a less useful feature. Its such tired thinking that Apple hasn't even acknowledged it. I love it.
thinks MMS = 
We can only hope and pray that Apple might test the copy and paste before they release it amirite?
Are people being serious about this? Do you seriously think Apple devised a mechanism that somehow will ruin double tapping in safari? This is making mountains out of specs of dust.
The iPhone 3 OS better work with my iPhone 3G. Don't let me down, Apple!
You mean because the version number of the OS coincides with the descriptor for the particular wireless network, Apple should ensure compatibility?
And a pretty miserable experience after the wait - who wants a repeat of the great server overload of '08? What fun that was!
Most carriers have made MMS apart of your SMS count. kdarling, correct me if I am wrong. But MMS uses SMS to notify the handset that it has a message with attachment waiting for it. The phone then connects over WAP to get said attachment. The most likely reason for the iPhone not having MMS is due to the iPhone not having WAP.
You obviously don't understand why people want MMS.
When someone sends you a picture message, we can't see it on the iPhone unless we go to AT&T's unusable web "solution" with some arbitrary username and password that we can't copy and paste. There is absolutely NO reason why the iPhone shouldn't have native MMS support. Just have the image pop up in a bubble in the SMS, and allow pictures to be sent via the SMS app.
People with their free flip phones simply don't use email to send images. It's just not as practical or easy as MMS.
Actually it was supposed to be released like 7 months ago, it was announced before that.
I hope they have more than copy/paste in this update. I use my iphone a lot but for me never really have a big need for copy/paste. My wishlist is for the next gen iphone to have something like ichat with video and MMS. can't wait to see what tomorrow brings
Agreed. There are a lot of things to fix on the iPhone that should come before copy & paste.