Live Coverage of iPhone 3.0 Media Event

[dicklacara]

Time to delete EasyWriter...

Cap'n Crunch will get you for that!

 

[NT1440]

Copy that...... I hear yeah. I hope it is so.

Lol what would they honestly say?

"Oh yea, you can now put a picture on the backround that will be obscured by your hundreds of apps *brief pause* and now for MMS"

It wouldn't have made a great talking point.

 

[Stuart in Oz]

So, no Bluetooth file transfer capability?

Like, I want to throw a work file on my iPhone to take home and then share it with a co-worker I run into in the foyer, who has, say, a Sony phone?

I still can't transfer a plain, run of the mill, file to another device via bluetooth? Is this right?

 

[Digital Skunk]

So, no Bluetooth file transfer capability?

Like, I want to throw a work file on my iPhone to take home and then share it with a co-worker I run into in the foyer, who has, say, a Sony phone?

I still can't transfer a plain, run of the mill, file to another device via bluetooth? Is this right?

No, I mean, but as the below poster said, you can jailbreak.

And for the record, yes, you can transfer documents from Treos, Sony devices, and other WiMo handhelds through bluetooth, with each other. It doesn't have to be Treo to Treo or Sony to Sony.

 

[LSUtigers03]

So, no Bluetooth file transfer capability?

Like, I want to throw a work file on my iPhone to take home and then share it with a co-worker I run into in the foyer, who has, say, a Sony phone?

I still can't transfer a plain, run of the mill, file to another device via bluetooth? Is this right?

Right now there's a jailbroken app that allows for bluetooth file transfer.

 

[3282868]

Right now there's a jailbroken app that allows for bluetooth file transfer.

really? My iPhone 3G is jailbroken but I could not find an application in Cydia. Is it under a standard repository or do you need to add a certain source to get the application?

 

[bigwig]

Push without true background apps is a silly botch. Yeah, I know background apps can use more power. So what? Why does Apple care if I want to run apps that burn up juice? Besides, an app that's asleep waiting for hardware notification of an incoming message (i.e. push) doesn't burn CPU cycles, nor does an app that's backgrounded but doesn't do anything while backgrounded (like an editor).

 

[killmoms]

...nor does an app that's backgrounded but doesn't do anything while backgrounded (like an editor).

Why would you need to background an app like that? Assuming it obeys Apple's HIG and saves all progress as soon as you jump back to the home screen, what do you net? Very slightly reduced startup time? And higher memory consumption?

There are two cases I can think of where you'd "need" background apps—one, a service that grabs info from another app (see: last.fm reading your plays in the iPod app), or two, an app that streams audio content (huge battery drain). For everything else, you're usually just waiting for notifications of incoming data (RSS, IM services, sports scores), and for that push notifications are perfect.