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iPhone 3.0 to Get MMS, Tethering, and Finally... Copy and Paste?

I am definitely looking forward to MMS. The tethering will be good for those who didn't manage to snag NetShare when it was on the app store. I was one of the lucky ones and it works great.

It's always a relief to know that whn you're on the road and need to get some work done or send out a spreadsheet for work you can.

Any other changes would be entirely welcome as long as it doesn't make the phone and slower or more buggy.
 
MMS is needed. Not everyone in the world owns a smartphone yet. Maybe in 10 years or so, MMS will be gone, but as of now, it's definitely needed!
 
my list!

_ Cut&Paste (come on the 1984 Mac128k had this feature)
_ Double click to select a word
_ Video recording
_ Global Search
_ Bluetooth enabled (or teathered) keyboards
_ Bluetooth syncing
_ Bluetooth music listening
_ Horizontal text input in all applications
_ Sync notes and to dos
_ Ability to sync documents and edit them
_ Flash
_ Laptop tethering
_ Streamlined email reading between accounts
_ Push notification
_ Quickly back up all application data on phone
_ A Finder that allows for categories
_ List View for applications
_ No limit on the number of applications installed
_ List Docs as well
_ iChat video conferencing official ap
_ Turn by Turn navigation (ala TomTom)
_ MMS
_ VOICE DIALING !!!
 
I agree that mms would be kind of weird after 2 years of them saying it's an out dated technology. But I would still take it. I mainly want stereo Bluetooth, wide screen texting as an option, and a chat solution. There is no reason we can't have all of these.
 
stevejobbers said:
also, what would happen if you try to run multiple internet apps at the same time (like Pandora, Facebook, Ebay...) at some point wouldn't you overload the Edge/3G capabilities!?! even with new hardware i don't see how it would be possible to have multiple apps running at once due to network limitations. maybe they could remain 'open' in the background, but not running...
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On WM phones, I can run Pandora in the background while surfing the Web. (And I suspect there are jailbroken iPhones that do it too.)

This is with Google Sync going as well.

Also sometimes I will have the Slingplayer going, and during commercials flip to IE to look at mobile news sites. If I don't stop Sling, I can still hear the show's audio. When I hear the show start again, I just flip back to the TV screen. (Ah, isn't multitasking great?)
 
Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5H11 Safari/525.20)

That's a nice list of things that I think we all want to be included.
 
Vectrex said:
OK, I'm going to call it. I say that the teathering will exclusively work with a new Apple touchpad slate ebook type device.
After all if Apple do release a 10" device it will need some form of Internet access beyond WiFi but who wants to pay for separate 3G access for an iPhone AND a tablet.
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While I appreciate putting your name to a prediction, that prediction is pretty terrible ;) try again!
 
- MMS: Possible to do through an application. Has, in fact, already been done. There's a fantastic native MMS application on the UK AppStore. Besides, I think people have become used to not having MMS. It's not a big deal any more, and if the predictions that smartphones will account for 50% of the market by 2012 are correct, it's going to be less and less significant.

- Tethering. This actually is likely IMO. Apple's laptops are their flagship products. It makes sense that they'd like to improve them still further by using the iPhone as a data modem. Also, the iPhone is all about mobile connectivity and computing - allowing tethering makes sense as an extension of that. I expect this to work through USB, not bluetooth. Using bluetooth would drain the battery so fast it wouldn't be usable, and I expect this to be facilitated through iTunes, which currently does not support connecting to devices in any way other than USB.

- C&P: Dear God, hopefully!

I'd also like to see:
- More stable system (esp. Safari)
- More informative lock screen
- Quicker rotation with accelerometer
- Landscape views for Mail, SMS, iCal
- Top Sites in MobileSafari
- Flash (duh)
- Proper bluetooth stack
- VoiceOver in iPod.App
- Disk Mode enabled
- AppStore trial versions (full version wrapped in DRM that lets you use it for 3 days)
- Ability to check remaining minutes/texts from phone settings
- Ability to sync iPhone/Mac software through iTunes syncing (not over WiFi)
- Sync iPhone notes
 
No Tethering Please

AT&T data network sucks as it is in San Francisco. Throw in Tethering and it will be the end. I tried an AT&T 3G card after using a Verizion card and I nearly died of shock. When I returned it, the people at the store seemed resigned to this being the case. I ended back on Verizion and it is night and day. I did get a kick out of the advert where they show how fast 3G is on the phone. The response time in the advert is faster than most peoples Wi-Fi network.

As for features, cut n paste please and background apps.

David
 
asdavis10 said:
MMS and tethering were not included in the iPhone because of AT&T restrictions, not Apple.
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Source?

MMS and tethering are high profit revenue generating features for ATT, just like texting.

There is no way in hell ATT would not want it on the iPhone, but offer it on the rest of their phones. Especially since they sell so many of them.

This is Apple's doing. Plain and simple.
 
Please Apple give us Tethering. Who wants Tethering on their Iphone? Please post.

Im dying for Tethering so that i can use my macbook everywhere.

Tethering is more important than MMS.
 
Saladinos said:
- MMS: Possible to do through an application. Has, in fact, already been done. There's a fantastic native MMS application on the UK AppStore. Besides, I think people have become used to not having MMS. It's not a big deal any more, and if the predictions that smartphones will account for 50% of the market by 2012 are correct, it's going to be less and less significant.

- Tethering. This actually is likely IMO. Apple's laptops are their flagship products. It makes sense that they'd like to improve them still further by using the iPhone as a data modem. Also, the iPhone is all about mobile connectivity and computing - allowing tethering makes sense as an extension of that. I expect this to work through USB, not bluetooth. Using bluetooth would drain the battery so fast it wouldn't be usable, and I expect this to be facilitated through iTunes, which currently does not support connecting to devices in any way other than USB.

- C&P: Dear God, hopefully!

I'd also like to see:
- More stable system (esp. Safari)
- More informative lock screen
- Quicker rotation with accelerometer
- Landscape views for Mail, SMS, iCal
- Top Sites in MobileSafari
- Flash (duh)
- Proper bluetooth stack
- VoiceOver in iPod.App
- Disk Mode enabled
- AppStore trial versions (full version wrapped in DRM that lets you use it for 3 days)
- Ability to check remaining minutes/texts from phone settings
- Ability to sync iPhone/Mac software through iTunes syncing (not over WiFi)
- Sync iPhone notes
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Explain to me what Flash (duh) is going to give me. More ads? Crappy websites?
 
Tethering

All of those people who purchased the original iPhone in June '07 have their contracts coming due. Wouldn't tethering be a nice enticement to make them re-up with a new phone? And even pay more per month with a smile???
 
Eduardo1971 said:
I'm trying to put the pieces together: I wonder if this rumoured 'springboard' ('stacks?') is Apple future direction. If the rumoured 'netbook' does not have a physical keyboard and this new 3.0 iPhone OS also incorporates this 'springboard', then Snow Leopard will tie all this together.

The future of computing will shun away (as much as possible) physical keyboards and mice.
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I kind of hope so. holding onto a mouse all day while at work and at home is killing my hand. touch would be so much better but I will hate to spend money to fix the sucker. :eek::p
 
megfilmworks said:
Copy and Paste=Progressive
MMS=Regressive
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Copy and Paste = Progressive?

Copy and Paste was STANDARD in the 1984 release of the original Mac 128k

Mac 128k = 8 MHz + 128 k RAM - 342x512 b&w - 16.5 lbs
iPhone 3G = 412 MHz + 16 gb RAM - 320x480 color - 4.7 oz
 
The iPhone desperately needs a MMS application to be implemented into the OS. I work at a corporate AT&T store, and the number one reason folks return the phone is because they cannot send MMS throughout the SMS application. We do explain that it can be done though e-mail, but it is a huge turn off for customers to do that, they see it as a big pain in the butt and as a result they wind up returning the phone. Also another thing that seriously bugs me is the fact that you cant use the keyboard in landscape mode for other applications other than Safari WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::confused::confused::confused::confused::mad::mad::mad::mad:.
 
but the ability to run multiple apps at once or video recording will probably require new hardware. i can currently play Rolando and listen to music and accept phone calls all at the same time -- how much RAM can possibly be left over at this point? 2MB?
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again is matter of OS efficiency...128mb of RAM should be enough for all that in a mature mobile OS

i am hoping a jump from 2.x to means 3.x means there deep improvements on the OS base code, and not just minor patching, so that everything uses less RAM, and there is more free RAM for 3rd party apps and general multitasking
 
3rd Party Apps

I'm more interested in the third party applications that they will highlight, they have had other companies demo apps at every iphone software event since it was released so I'm really pumped for it.

My wish: Slingbox, because it's due by the end of the month and I think they could really impress people with a demo of live tv on tuesday

My second guess? Either Tiger Woods 10 or Need For Speed from EA because EA usually gets a spotlight and these two games have been on the way for awhile

Also, I definitely think that they will be announcing that $20 an app premium store that was rumored a little while ago, I think they are starting to get bothered by the number of crap apps, this is just my two cents

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