Live Coverage of iPhone 3.0 Media Event

[GeekLawyer]

Copy/paste? Sounds possible with the "text selection" API...

 

[boss1]

actaully the guy on stage reminds me of a younger Christopher Walken

lol. And next we are introducing .. "Ping Pong" .. or as the chinese calll it "Ping Pong"

 

[billchase2]

A Meebo app... awesome. I've always loved their website.

 

[diamond.g]

Did they not blast blackberry for using an intermediate server for email service? And that it's better to got straight from mail server to phone.

Low and behold, push notification is exactly how blackberries get there email! There's a server sitting there collecting everything and pushing to your phone as you need it.

Shhhh, you were supposed to forget that...

 

[albertokoelie]

Jason Chen:

In game voice chat is also one of the various APIs now open, as is iPod library access, proximity sensor, audio recorder, battery API, streaming audio and video, data detectors, text selection (oh??? is this for copy and paste??) UI alert view, sake API (for rumble) and GPS lingo.

 

[OneMike]

this is looking good so far

 

[Small White Car]

It looked to me like it was the backround processes that do that, hence using push instead.

No, what I mean is:

Backround apps draining battery 80% faster = expected
Push draining battery 20% faster = better, but that # is very surprising to me (I would have guessed 5%)

 

[albertokoelie]

 

[petvas]

OK, so still no background processes...so "multitasking" will still suck. Funny how WM and Symbian can manage this without the "80% battery reduction" just fine...smells like Apple just wants to hold tighter reins on what's running on their device. Also, Giz. says no Bluetooth pairing...so it sounds like the Bluetooth stack will still suck.

I have an HTC Touch and I have many apps that are open on the background. Battery life is good. Why not let the user choose what to do with the battery of his/her phone?

 

[Small White Car]

OK, so still no background processes...so "multitasking" will still suck. Funny how WM and Symbian can manage this without the "80% battery reduction" just fine...smells like Apple just wants to hold tighter reins on what's running on their device. Also, Giz. says no Bluetooth pairing...so it sounds like the Bluetooth stack will still suck.

I have an HTC Touch and I have many apps that are open on the background. Battery life is good. Why not let the user choose what to do with the battery of his/her phone?

Bigger batteries in those phones, I believe. Not a straight comparison unless you want a bigger iPhone.

 

[michael.lauden]

is it me or is the new OS a disappointment? No background apps? This must be a joke...

it's you. this is very exciting so far

 

[detz]

I have an HTC Touch and I have many apps that are open on the background. Battery life is good. Why not let the user choose what to do with the battery of his/her phone?

Most users are idiots, look at Windows or any OS, when you leave it up to the people to decide bad things happen and the company of the product gets blamed.

 

[03sho]

Coooool, meebo!

 

[lindsayanng]

I just want an iChat app with push.. thats all. I like my comfort of ichat.

 

[Saladinos]

Like the peer-to-peer stuff. Uses bluetooth, custom stuff supported...

I think we're finally going to see A2DP support and Bluetooth file exchange! At frigging last!

 

[diamond.g]

I have an HTC Touch and I have many apps that are open on the background. Battery life is good. Why not let the user choose what to do with the battery of his/her phone?

Not Apples style.

 

[saberahul]

I was very disappointed when i saw that the maps update was released only for the iphone and not the touch... i just hope all these features are released for the touch as well

 

[billchase2]

Sims 3... cool, but not really for me.

 

[plumbingandtech]

is it me or is the new OS a disappointment? No background apps? This must be a joke...

oh for pete's sake can you wait until AFTER the event is over before this?



and for the record, it's you, I am finding it to be very exciting.

 

[petvas]

Not Apples style.

That is so much true...

 

[NT1440]

No, what I mean is:

Backround apps draining battery 80% faster = expected
Push draining battery 20% faster = better, but that # is very surprising to me (I would have guessed 5%)

Link, i must not be watching the same liveblogs as you. I'm surprised by that as well, but 20 is deffinatly better than 80 (i expect those are skewed a bit)

 

[Stridder44]

I have an HTC Touch and I have many apps that are open on the background. Battery life is good. Why not let the user choose what to do with the battery of his/her phone?

You forget what company you're talking about here.

 

[gianpan]

sims??

seriously sims?

We are not 12 year old

 

[michael.lauden]

I just want an iChat app with push.. thats all. I like my comfort of ichat.

meee too!

 

[fleshman03]

Link, i must not be watching the same liveblogs as you. I'm surprised by that as well, but 20 is deffinatly better than 80 (i expect those are skewed a bit)

I'd bet that the new iPhone will have a battery with 20% greater capacity... Think smaller version of the 17" MBP.