iPhone OS 4.0 Preview Event Scheduled for This Thursday

[azentropy]

If there's really a major emergency, what makes you think your phone's cell towers will be functioning? In Katrina, the cell towers were unavailable for quite a while. If you want a radio for emergency purposes, get a battery or crank operated number.
I find xmas music nauseating. Also, you can find numerous radio stations online on your computer--which presumably has better speakers. I'm sure you can find one that'll play that treacly, annoying music.
FM radio=fail.

You realize you just made his point for including FM radio???
FM radio wouldn't require cell towers...

 

[Stiss]

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How cool would it be if apple supplemented email, IM, and SMS with yet another form of text based electronic communication but made it one that only allowed you to communicate with a tiny minority of the population? All so you can feel like you're in some exclusive club? Not very cool, I'd say.

Enter iChat.

iChat not as we know it. But a free messaging service for Apple to Apple based products.

 

[ScottishDuck]

Enter iChat.

iChat not as we know it. But a free messaging service for Apple to Apple based products.

Free? Apple?

Somehow, I don't think so.

 

[eastercat]

You realize you just made his point for including FM radio???
FM radio wouldn't require cell towers...

Cell towers wouldn't be the only things to go down. Radio broadcast towers would also go down as well.

 

[xStatiCa]

What I'm looking forward to is the ability to stream music/video from the iTunes library on a computer to the iPad.

That is already available with a third party app (Air Video). It converts videos that are not in the correct format automatically. It can play over wifi or 3g. You can even queue them up for conversion from your iPad or iPhone too and even get rid of black borders directly from the iPhone/iPad before the encoding starts. There is a free version to check out first. It is only for the iPhone right now but it still looks good enough pixel doubled on the iPad for now until the update to be a native iPad app.

It is the best $2.99 i have ever spent on an app.

 

[heavensblade23]

It's less than 3 hours until....who's doing live coverage?

 

[Cupra]

It's less than 3 hours until....who's doing live coverage?

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/live-from-apples-iphone-os-4-event/

 

[ct2k7]

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/live-from-apples-iphone-os-4-event/

and http://live.gdgt.com

 

[iigsie]

True dat.

Bollocks dat is.

 

[rfahey]

I'd also like to see enhancement to the contact list, like being able to assign ringtones to an entire group. Or even remembering what ringtones are set when you do a system restore

 

[emir]

all i want is MAJOR changes.

I want the iPhone to change. It doesn't feel futuristic like it did 3 years ago. It's time for the OS to change. Please be major changes.

 

[Peace]

Well now we know what the image means. Ha!

 

[timerollson]

I keep saying this but if the iPhone OS could handle e-mail as well as a Blackberry, some sort of BBM like app that's equally efficient, in addition to it ever coming to Verizon, I'd jump ship in an instant.


But I think those aren't happening so.... I'm sticking with my BB.

 

[xdhd350]

Does anybody still care about the addition/omission of a FM tuner on any Apple product? It's kinda like hoping that the next iMac will ship with RCA jacks.

You apparently having been looking behind the scenes of FM radio lately. Here are a few items of GREAT INTEREST to me.

Want to know where your Garmin gets its traffic data? Yep, your local FM radio stations via a sub carrier.

HD Radio - Not really HD, but a digital stream coming from the transmitter of.... wait for it.. your LOCAL FM radio station.

See a theme here? There is now a lot of DIGITAL DATA being carried on your local FM stations, not just the main analog audio that you hear with a basic FM radio. Can you say enhanced content delivery channels? Real-time data without the need for a cell signal. Additional location triangulation using LOCAL FM signals (their tower locations are fixed and provide a good geo-reference). That could help locate you in an emergency if you are too deep inside of a structure to get a GPS fix.

So yes, there are a TON of uses for the FM broadcast band reception built into the Broadcomm chipset.

-greg

 

[rfahey]

I keep saying this but if the iPhone OS could handle e-mail as well as a Blackberry, some sort of BBM like app that's equally efficient, in addition to it ever coming to Verizon, I'd jump ship in an instant.


But I think those aren't happening so.... I'm sticking with my BB.

I think the iPhone's email is setup way better than the BB, but taht's from my very limited experience with BB's email. One enhancement I'd like to see in the iPhone's mail app is being able to collapse folders, rather than them being expanded by default. I also can't search on my exchange server, that may be a limitation of the exchange version i'm accessing; and I'd like a way to temporarily sync a folder that has items older than how far back my phone syncs.

 

[billchase2]

Are there any video feeds going this time around? Last time, TWiT Live had some feeds. They don't appear to be online right now though.

 

[MacBOS]

anyone know wen the video of the conference might be ready for download, ballpark answers are welcome

 

[benspratling]

I'm predicting Quick Look plugins.

Confirmed.