**iPhone Havers...ready for 3.0??!! (I sure the hell am)**

[Lott's Bandana]

Play this while you read (if you notice the "triangle" in the song, it is also the same as one of the message tones available on iPhone):

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Advance preview of 100 new features.

For iPhone owners, it just keeps getting better. When iPhone OS 3.0 arrives this summer, it will introduce over 100 new features, including the ability to:
Search your iPhone
Cut, copy, and paste
Send photos, contacts, audio files, and location via MMS*
Read and compose email and text messages in landscape
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http://gizmodo.com/5171796/iphone-30-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know
[quote]iPhone 3.0 OS Guide: Everything You Need to Know (http://gizmodo.com/5171796/iphone-30-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know)







iPhone 3.0 OS, the next generation operating system for the iPhone, iPod touch, and whatever Apple device comes next. New features (http://gizmodo.com/5171995/how-iphone-30-will-feel-different), new apps (http://i.gizmodo.com/5172248/first-iphone-30-apps-show-off-new-functionality), here you will find all the information you need.
This just in: a hands on tour, impressions and gallery of screenshots of the new OS (http://gizmodo.com/5172807/iphone-30-beta-os-impressions-and-walkthrough-gallery) donated by our helpful readers.
NEW IPHONE OS 3.0 (http://gizmodo.com/tag/iphone-os-3%270/) FEATURES
The new iPhone OS 3.0 (http://gizmodo.com/tag/iphone-os-3%270/) adds over 100 new features including—at friggin' last (http://i.gizmodo.com/5171998/thank-the-sweet-lord-above-the-iphone-finally-gets-cut-and-paste)—cut and paste.
• Copy & Paste text. When you double-tap over text, you will get a "cut, copy, and paste" bubble dialog. Double-tap again and a "paste" bubble will appear if there's anything stored in your clipboard.

(http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/iphone3cutpaste/1007596657)This works across applications. You can expand your selection points using your thumbs and, if you accidentally paste something you didn't want to paste, just shake your iPhone to undo it.
• Copy & Paste photos. You can also copy and paste photos. Now you will be able to select multiple photos by tapping the action button, copy some of them, and paste them in an email, ready to send.
• New Spotlight. iPhone OS 3.0 will allow you to search across the entire information contained in your device, no matter where, as soon as the information is supported it. If an application is written to support the new Spotlight, its data will also be available in the search.


In this screenshot you can see Spotlight bringing results from your address book, maps, your iPod, and apps in your springboard.
• Search in Mail, Calendar, and iPod. These Apple applications have specific search interfaces. The search in Mail doesn't support the message content yet, but it supports searching in IMAP servers—that will save a lot of time logging into Gmail.

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(http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/iphone3softwaresearch/1007598291)• 3G Tethering. This feature will allow you to connect your iPhone 3G to a laptop, to use it as a modem to access the internet. Carriers still have to sign-off on it, and probably charge more for it. None have announced it yet.
• Landscape keyboard. Apple has added the landscape keyboard mode to other applications, like Mail, SMS, and Notes.

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(http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/iphonesoftware3landscape/1007597681)• Multimedia messaging. A big one to send rich content to people without mail-enabled telephones: The new MMS function will allow you to include everything, from images to sound to vcards (no word on video, however.) Personally, I find these usesless having email, but some people seem to want it.
• Support for new calendar types. In iPhone OS 3.0 you will be able to subscribe to calendars on the web using two protocols: CalDAV—supported by Google and Yahoo—and subscriptions via the .ics format—which is what Apple uses in iCal.


• Improved stocks application. The stocks application now allows you to read related news, so you can enjoy yourself learning about the latest market scandals, stock crashes, and executives getting bonus packages from government aid while their companies sink into hell. Thank you, Apple.
• Stereo Bluetooth A2DP audio. You will be able to pair your iPhone 3.0 with a stereo Bluetooth A2DP device, like headphones or speakers.
• Note syncing with iTunes.
• Automatic login in Safari. The new version of Safari will remember login credentials, so you won't need to introduce your username and password again while accessing Scoreland your work intranet.
• Shake to shuffle music. If you are in your iPod application, you just need to shake it to start the shuffling mode. Hopefully this will be optional for sports people out there.
• Wi-Fi auto-login. In case you have a subscription to a paid hotspot, your iPhone or iPod touch will autolog into it.
• Anti-phishing. Mobile Safari now can warn you against malicious sites trying to scam you.
• Extended parental controls. Adult content filters can now be applied to movies, TV shows, and applications, in addition to web sites and music (porn apps, here we come).




NEW APPLE APPLICATIONS
Apple will include new widgets in the new version of the iPhone operating system:
• Voice memo application. Obviously, allows you to record voice or any other sound, so you don't forget any idea or want to play FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper.


• Send and receive files. A dedicated application to exchange files between iPhones or iPods touch.




NEW THIRD PARTY APPLICATIONS FEATURES IN IPHONE OS 3.0
The new iPhone OS 3.0 adds 1,000 new APIs to extend the capabilities of new applications. (http://i.gizmodo.com/5172248/first-iphone-30-apps-show-off-new-functionality)
• Peer-to-peer Wi-Fi Bluetooth connectivity. A new API will allow for two iPhones to connect directly—peer-to-peer—via Bluetooth Wi-Fi, without needing any Wi-Fi network.
They will be able to discover each other using Bluetooth, and then start a Wi-Fi connection transparently.
This opens a lot of possibilities. I doubt they will allow you to pass music, but you would probably be able to pass any other information, as well as directly communicating between applications in the two devices. One example: A pets game that allows two dogs to play with each other.
This feature could be combined with push notification, so your iPhone may receive a note from another iPhone, inviting you to play a game one-on-one.


• Browse remote content. While the built-in iPod application doesn't allow you to browse songs in other people's iPhones or iPod touch, third-party applications will allow you to do that, according to Apple's Forstall.
• Use your iPhone/touch to control peripherals. A new API will let you use your iPhone or iPod touch as a control to your accessories. In this example, the iPhone is being used to equalize the sound in a loudspeaker.

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(http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/iphonesoftware3acc/1007597369)However, the applications are endless. Johnson and Johnson is releasing LifeScan, an app that connects to a glucose monitoring device. The application can even alert other people automatically, in case something is wrong.
There other less serious apps, like creating the most perfect sex device ever (NSFW). (http://gizmodo.com/5172615)
• Maps inside other applications. New applications will be able to use Maps directly, which is now an API.




• Turn-by-turn directions. Developers will also be able to create turn-by-turn applications using the GPS information from the iPhone and combining it with their own maps, without depending on 3G connectivity or Google.






• Push notification finally coming. Hopefully this time it will be true (http://i.gizmodo.com/5058609/). Push notification (http://gizmodo.com/5031559/iphone-developers-get-push-notification-api) means that your iPhone OS 3.0 applications will finally be able to receive messages from the intarwebs automagically, so you can have an Instant Message application and have your iPhone vibrate or make a sound when a new message comes in, even if the application is not running.






• Voice communication in applications. iPhone 3.0 applications will also be able to access a Voice over IP service. This means that you will be able to chat with other users while playing against them in a game, for example. This won't use the telephone, but the internet over a Wi-Fi connection.
• Rumbling. Games—or any other application—will also be able to rumble, like your console joystick.
• Audio recording. Audio recording will also be possible from third-party applications using a standardized API, instead of custom workarounds.
• Access your music from applications. Future applications will also be able to access the iPhone/iPod music library. This means that applications will be able to play your own music while they run.




NEW FEATURES IN THE APP STORE
The new OS will also offer an enhanced App Store (http://i.gizmodo.com/5172200/iphone-app-store-revamped-for-content-subscriptions-game-add+ons-in+app-purchases), opening new possibilities for developers and consumers.
• Subcriptions to apps.
• Purchase additional content for apps, like new cities for a city guide application.
• Purchase additional levels for games.
Basically, this will allow developers to sell more things on top of their apps, and to consumers to expand their experience with those apps.
• This will work straight from the applications, so you can purchase new things through the software itself, even while it still goes through the App Store internally.




PRICE
iPhone OS 3.0 will be a free upgrade to all iPhone users, including the first generation (not all features will be supported in the first generation, like Stereo Bluetooth support). iPod touch users will be able to but it for $US9.95.
If you dare, you can sign up for the beta here (http://developer.apple.com/).

[yermom]

oh hell yes

[King Crimson]

Play this while you read (if you notice the "triangle" in the song, it is also the same as one of the message tones available on iPhone):


which sort of kills the bourgeois critique, don't ya think? i hate to cheese off the macsters on board but i don't think Mac is quite so edgy as to be able to make a plausible or legit critique of something called the "bourgeoisie"...when in fact it epitomizes it in many ways.

If you like this Pet Sounds cum Sgt. Peppers stuff check out the Apples in Stereo or Olivia Tremor Control. They've been doing it for a decade.

[yermom]

i think you might be overthinking something somewhere

[King Crimson]

i think you might be overthinking something somewhere

naw, not at all. :texan:

[SicEmBaylor]

I'm pretty damned excited about 3.0. The turn-by-turn navigation especially.

[JohnnyMack]

Yeah, cause you driving and looking at your iphone at the same time really sounds like a good idea.

[Lott's Bandana]

which sort of kills the bourgeois critique, don't ya think? i hate to cheese off the macsters on board but i don't think Mac is quite so edgy as to be able to make a plausible or legit critique of something called the "bourgeoisie"...when in fact it epitomizes it in many ways.

If you like this Pet Sounds cum Sgt. Peppers stuff check out the Apples in Stereo or Olivia Tremor Control. They've been doing it for a decade.


The Submarines? I'm seeing them this weekend at Sasquatch.

I doubt if they or their title have anything to do with Apple other than picking up a check.

I suppose they smoke pot as well. Silly.


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[King Crimson]

wow, i guess picking up a check from Apple, smoking grass, or being on Showtime series is a robust refutation of poseur Starbuck's level social critique status?

i'm funning you some, but fo'real?

[Lott's Bandana]

Hey, I'd never even heard of these d00ds until I saw them on the Sasquatch lineup.

Then I recognized the commercial ditty.

Sometimes I drink Starbucks too. I'll have one tomorrow at Pike's Place for sure.

[yermom]

back to the iPhone... :D

i wonder if this update is gonna kill my old pre-3G iPhone. and i wonder how long before there is a jailbreaked version for it?

[My Opinion Matters]

Can someone translate what the hell King Crimson is saying for me? kplzthxbai.

[King Crimson]

Can someone translate what the hell King Crimson is saying for me? kplzthxbai.

pretty simple. one of the fetishes of contemporary culture is the way it displaces technology (particularly, the new communication tech) out of social context. as such, we tend to reify technology and give it the motive force of history itself in terms of shaping human futures. which is to say: we give autonomy to a force we create ourselves, obfuscated by a standard battery of ideological themes...like "progress" and "designer life-worlds". and the Submarines are poseurs propogating a disgusting "feel good" ideology of personal consumption...which apparently is a tepid social critique appropriate to the "would-be" non-conformists who own macs.

[soonerboomer93]

I'm just gonna laugh at all the fact that iPhones didn't have any of this stuff at launch, especially when more then a fair amount of it is pretty standard items to have on a "smartphone"

[stoops the eternal pimp]

Im not gonna read all that....when will the update be available?

[badger]

As soon as iPhone is available on more service providers... does AT&T still have the iPhone monopoly?

[My Opinion Matters]

pretty simple. one of the fetishes of contemporary culture is the way it displaces technology (particularly, the new communication tech) out of social context. as such, we tend to reify technology and give it the motive force of history itself in terms of shaping human futures. which is to say: we give autonomy to a force we create ourselves, obfuscated by a standard battery of ideological themes...like "progress" and "designer life-worlds". and the Submarines are poseurs propogating a disgusting "feel good" ideology of personal consumption...which apparently is a tepid social critique appropriate to the "would-be" non-conformists who own macs.

Dude, I get that you're a smart guy and everything, but I'm going to have to go with whoever said you're overthinking all of this.

[achiro]

pretty simple. one of the fetishes of contemporary culture is the way it displaces technology (particularly, the new communication tech) out of social context. as such, we tend to reify technology and give it the motive force of history itself in terms of shaping human futures. which is to say: we give autonomy to a force we create ourselves, obfuscated by a standard battery of ideological themes...like "progress" and "designer life-worlds". and the Submarines are poseurs propogating a disgusting "feel good" ideology of personal consumption...which apparently is a tepid social critique appropriate to the "would-be" non-conformists who own macs.

Dude, you've got to be a load of fun at parties.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

I like porno and slim-jims!

[yermom]

As soon as iPhone is available on more service providers... does AT&T still have the iPhone monopoly?

seems like it's at least a year or two out before you can get them on other providers

[stoops the eternal pimp]

I like porno and slim-jims!

and books about war

[Tulsa_Fireman]

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/94/77094-004-36226C46.jpg

Theeeese are a few of my favorite things!

[crawfish]

I just wish Apple would get rid of the Nazi tactics for controlling the development and release of iPhone apps.

[bluedogok]

Apple has always been that way about their products, it is nothing new or unique to the iPhone.

[King Crimson]

Apple has always been that way about their products, it is nothing new or unique to the iPhone.

yup, vertical and horizontal integration. one of the reasons i left the camp of the "true believers". computer anything is basically disposable culture at this point....why be a prisoner to apple when your monitor craps out and pat the extra 20% for the mac logo.

for 1200 you get the bottom of the line macbook. for 1200, you can buy a screaming PC notebook....OS X, sure....but load yer new PC with ubuntu and forget the Vista nonsense.

iTunes is also a BS crapjob. nothing about Apple is as "hip" as it wants to be. long live p2p filesharing and winamp.

[bluedogok]

I know a guy down here who has OSX running on a Dell Mini9 (http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhshttp://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs) Netbook. He said it worked out of the box with a retail Leopard disk. He is a former Apple employee (17 years), his wife works at Dell.

[yermom]

i got it running on an Asus EeePC 1000

it took a fair amount of doing though. and didn't work all that smoothly once finished. i ended up going back to a lightened version of XP and Ubuntu NBR

[Lott's Bandana]

Im not gonna read all that....when will the update be available?

From what I understand, June.

I have a first-gen iPhone that is almost two years old. I'm using it to make this post from a Seattle hotel room.

This is not the phone I bought back then, it is 100 times better.

3.0 is going to make it 200 times better.

Just got the Google Voice app. Sweet.

[King Crimson]

Dude, I get that you're a smart guy and everything, but I'm going to have to go with whoever said you're overthinking all of this.

it's just a stunt, dude.

[King Crimson]

Dude, you've got to be a load of fun at parties.

now that we are all commies i just thought we should take our anti-capitalism seriously.

[soonerboomer93]

I still think the iPhone is highly over rated

I haven't been impressed with it any time i've looked at it.

to be fair, I do wish I had shazam, but oh well. I've browsed the apps and really can't see anything all that important. Frankly, there's lots of days I'd rather just throw my smartphone in the trash

[Czar Soonerov]

The Palm pre is coming out on June 6th. Only available on Sprint. I've been looking forward to this thing. The 3 megapixel camera is gonna kick ***.

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[bluedogok]

i got it running on an Asus EeePC 1000

it took a fair amount of doing though. and didn't work all that smoothly once finished. i ended up going back to a lightened version of XP and Ubuntu NBR
He got everything to work on the Dell, his theory is Intel designed it to be a MacMiniBook and didn't bite on it and eventually Dell picked it up. He was shocked everything ran right out of the box on initial install. That typically doesn't happen with the Mac OS loaded on a PC.

[soonerboomer93]

i got it running on an Asus EeePC 1000

it took a fair amount of doing though. and didn't work all that smoothly once finished. i ended up going back to a lightened version of XP and Ubuntu NBR

10.5.7 is supposed to run better on the netbooks

[yermom]

I still think the iPhone is highly over rated

I haven't been impressed with it any time i've looked at it.

to be fair, I do wish I had shazam, but oh well. I've browsed the apps and really can't see anything all that important. Frankly, there's lots of days I'd rather just throw my smartphone in the trash

my tune changed a lot once i started using mine. and i was pretty impressed before that

i've yet to use a better interface. it actually feels like it's supposed to be a phone, and an email client, and an iPod, and... i haven't seen anything that does SMS as well either, even without landscape mode

[bluedogok]

I never used a fraction of what my Samsung Blackjack had and I doubt that I am using much of the iPhone capability either but for the web stuff (the main reason why I have a SmartPhone) it is hard to beat. Plus, I got the MLB app so I can listen to the Red Sox afternoon games at work or hooked to the iPod adapter in my car.

I always preferred the Solaris version of Unix but it has been a long time since I have messed with any flavor since the software I use is Windows only.

[soonerboomer93]

wm 6.1 does a very good job a im/sms imho

I can use mobile IE, Opera and I think there's a version of firefox