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iPhone 3.0 Update Launches June 17

Posted 06/08/2009 at 3:36:18pm | by Zack Stern

The iPhone 3.0 software update will be released on June 17; all iPhone customers will be able to download it for free. Both generations of iPod touch owners will be able to get it for $9.95. iPhone developers can download the golden master version today.

At the WWDC keynote, Scott Forstall covered most of the same ground as the previous iPhone 3.0 software demo, showing off push notifications, peer-to-peer Bluetooth support, paid downloadable content, Spotlight search across email and other text, and more. But he introduced a few features that we hadn't yet seen.

- Parental controls now support movies, TV shows, and apps. Hopefully, given those app ratings, Apple can ease off its role as morality police, and the App Store approval process will open up further.

- Find My iPhone, coupled with a MobileMe subscription, tracks down your lost phone. It can show you the location, play an alert sound or message on the phone, and even remotely wipe all the data if it's lost for good.

- Among other software demos, TomTom announced a GPS turn-by-turn driving package, which will be sold this Summer.

- The 3.0 software adds tethering a data connection over USB or Bluetooth, so that you can get a laptop online through the phone.

- This feature requires carrier support... and AT&T hasn't yet joined that party.

- Safari improvements let it read HTML 5, stream audio and video, and autofill fields with passwords or other data.

All together, the presentation lacked many surprises, although we're able to finally able to put a date on our excitement: June 17.

COMMENTS: 8

TAGS: iPhone 3.0

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ugly stepsister, huh?
Submitted by b.rose.taos on Mon, 2009-06-08 16:18

I guess the nearly $400 I paid for an iPod Touch (2nd gen) isn't good enough to garner a free update when the iPhone OS 3.0 software becomes available June 17. Elitism is alive and well in Cupertino (or, is it just good ol' American capitalist greed that has overtaken "the Corp."?).

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Can't wait for the 17th!
Submitted by nholley73 on Mon, 2009-06-08 16:38

This is awesome.. looking forward to the update!
nah

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Failed logic
Submitted by Myschief247 on Mon, 2009-06-08 17:28

Expecting to get a major OS update for free is failed logic. Using that same logic, if I bought a new laptop last year, I should get Snow Leopard for free when it comes out. I don't hear anyone complaining about paying for those OS updates, so why should OS updates for iPod Touch be any different? I'm more than happy to pay a measly $10 for the update when it comes out, and believe me, I will.

So what if iPhone users get it for free!? Considering what their monthly phone bill is probably like, they deserve to get it for free.

It amazes me how many people I run into these days that have this sense of entitlement about everything. They want it all given to them on a silver platter. News flash: to get anywhere in life, one has to earn it. Also, as my kids learned in preschool: "You get what you get and you don't throw a fit."

(Ok, I'm getting off the "soap box" now. Sorry about that.)

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"Failed Logic" illogical
Submitted by b.rose.taos on Mon, 2009-06-08 18:00

It's an ipod/phone, not a laptop-- and it's an update, not a new OS. A logician you're not. The only sense of entitlement you have is your opinion (which is free of charge; and mine won't cost you a dime, either). Get off your high Apple pie in the sky horse, and walk with the masses. If you fail to voice your concerns over perceived inequities, then change will never occur. Ask any revolutionary-- like Steve Jobs, for example.

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iPOD Touch vs iPhone
Submitted by khyzhyj on Tue, 2009-06-09 07:03

Apple is compelled to charge holders of iPOD Touch and not holders of iPhone for the iPhone 3.0 Software upgrade due to IRS regulations. It has to do with accounting rules, regulations, etc. Otherwise, I suspect they would not charge iPod Touch owners for the upgrade. That's my $0.02 on this issue.

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IRS regs
Submitted by b.rose.taos on Tue, 2009-06-09 07:37

I was not aware of such a regulation, and I thank you for the information. Could you provide a link regarding this topic that may further enlighten me? I wonder what the FCC has to do with this, and why ISP's haven't made an issue of this. Or, have they?

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Flash Player
Submitted by mmgroup on Tue, 2009-06-09 07:50

Did anyone say anything about when we'll get Flash on the iPhone?

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