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http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/live … #continued

never mind ... cut copy paste. Woot

Not sure how I feel about the P2P ... I hope you can do it over wifi ... the gen1 touches don't have any bluetooth and the gen 2 touches don't have it enabled.

Last edited by mrreet2001 (2009-03-17 1:10 pm)

I think the developers are going ga-ga.

The P2P games is going to lock in some buyers forever. 

There's plenty of room for specialty apps.   Subscription apps are going to be real popular with developers.

... well I be damned...

http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/2g-i … iphone-os/

Looks like I will be getting a 2g ipod touch after all
Anyone want a 1st gen (its a joke mods )

Free for 3G iPhone, not for iPod touch

Works for older iPhones but the old iPhone won’t get the MMS or Stereo Bluetooth.

I liked that answer

I'm pissed that the original iPhone can't MMS! How can it be a 3G network thing when all 1G phones have this feature? And no stereo bluetooth is bull sh** too!

Nefarious wrote:

I think the developers are going ga-ga.

The P2P games is going to lock in some buyers forever. 

There's plenty of room for specialty apps.   Subscription apps are going to be real popular with developers.

EA Sports is going to make a killing on P2P apps.

OS v3.0 coming in June, will bring MMS, Copy Cut and Paste, turn by turn directions (third party), FM radio (third party, hardware), push notifications, and landscape email

Apple, struggling amid a rough economy continues to look to the iPhone as its brightest sales star.  Today Apple announced the new version of its iPhone OS, version 3.0 at a special presentation to the press.

At the start of the presentation, Apple lauded the iPhone's performance pointing out that it is now sold in 80 countries.  Stated presenter, Not Steve*, "Before we shipped our first phone, we set an aggressive goal -- we said we'd sell 10 million phones. And we sold 13.7m. We blew it away.  We've sold 17m altogether, you can see how people have accepted the 3G. But the touch also runs the same OS, and if you look at the time period, we've sold over 30m units of iPhones and iPod touch."
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Scott Forstall, Apple's SVP of iPhone software was on hand to demo the new v3.0 OS and new SDK.  He started by announcing 1,000 new APIs in the new SDK.  He states, "Let me tell you what we're doing for developers. Our goal was to make devs successful, we gave them the best tools ever. It blew us away what they did. We've spent the last year working hard to make the SDK even better."
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More SDK announcements include the addition of Bluetooth and automatic discovery APIs.  This should allow multiplayer Apps.  Also new, developers will have new APIs to talk to hardware peripherals -- like attached speakers.  The APIs will likely bring one feature the iPods have long lacked -- FM radio -- to the iPhone and the iPod Touch via third part hardware, says Apple.  Apple also says that medical device makers like blood pressure cuff makers are interested in using the iPhone as a readout for their devices.

Apple Announces iPhone OS v3.0

*Greg Joswiak

The strong consensus among all the developers that I spoke with is that the 3.0 announcements have renewed their confidence in the iPhone platform. With 30 million devices out there (iPhone and iPod touch) and the momentum of the app store, existing developers are probably more excited about the iPhone than ever. If I could share one insight, it would be to keep an eye on what happens with the new accessory communication options. I heard several rumblings that this opens up a whole new round of innovation for the iPhone.

While no one picked any one single software feature, API, or Core service as the Next Big Thing, everyone was thrilled with the breadth and depth of the changes to the SDK.

http://theappleblog.com/2009/03/18/five … iphone-30/

My view is there's more than "one big thing" is iPhone OS 3.0.  So, it might take a while for developers to find their app's potential.

I have been playing around with it for 24 hours now and I'm thoroughly impressed, already changing the way I use my phone. There are countless minor tweaks and features that give me a smile each time I notice a new one.

Copy and paste seems to be wonky, especially in Safari. Some of the apps seem a bit slow/freezing at times but its still beta. If an app hangs, home button always brings it back to the springboard ASAP, no delays and crashing.

The little bubbles from Cut/Copy/Paste don't work as they should right now, appearing in wrong positions then jumping all over when scrolling and sometimes the shadow from the bubble misaligns. MMS is disabled or incomplete or waiting for AT&T.

Other impressions- Safari seems to be much snappier and sometimes pages load way faster, others it almost hangs (once again, still beta). The Wifi seems to have a problem booting up sometimes from unlocking the phone and it loads off Edge (original iPhone here) until I go to Settings. Spotlight is actually incredibly useful and so is the Shake to Undo/Redo.

Since everyone else is talking about this, I guess I can too, no?

Edit- Oh, and the USB/Bluetooth accessory interfacing has infinite potential. Imagine a 5MP, 5x Optical zoom camera or a rather large flash that goes off with a custom camera app. Memory stick readers to import pictures? Video recording? Storage? I'm not quite sure of the limits on this connection, but maybe even BT keyboards? I cannot wait to find out.

Last edited by McAddict (2009-03-18 6:01 pm)

Am I the only one who thought "WTF?" when Apple blamed "hardware" for the not supporting MMS on the EDGE iPhone?

Really? "Hardware?" Considering that I've seen MMS on working old crappy phones with much slower processors, I don't quite buy the hardware excuse.