New iPhone 3.0 OS available
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iPhone 3.0 was first shown off to developers in March. The update is free for iPhone users and $9.99 for iPod Touch owners. It can be uploaded from iTunes.
System-wide search is provided by the Spotlight tool, which is already found on desktop Macs. The tool allows the user to search for a phrase across the handset's contacts, messaging, email, calendar and iTunes applications.
The cut-and-paste functionality is called up when the user double-taps on a section of text, then selects the desired action. Mistakes can be reversed by shaking the handset.
Push notifications have been enabled, so users do not need to constantly remember to check for new messages, and iPhone users will now be able to invite contacts to meetings and forward contacts to colleagues.
Version 3.0 of the operating system also adds the option of using the soft keyboard in landscape mode. Emails, text messages and contacts can now also be viewed in landscape mode.
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A native voice recorder application has also been added to the iPhone's operating system for the first time, and users will now be able to send multimedia (MMS) messages.
Developers can now charge users within applications for enhancements to those applications, rather than forcing them to adopt payment mechanisms outside the iPhone.
Peripherals manufacturers have also been given more access to the built-in functionality of the iPhone, allowing many to put the controls for their external devices on the iPhone itself.
The latest version of the iPhone, the 3G S, will go on sale on Friday. It includes new hardware features that will not be available to older handsets running the new operating system — these include video recording and the new model's built-in compass.
The new hardware also includes a more-powerful graphics chip, which has led to questions about whether graphics-intensive software such as games designed for the new phone will be compatible with the old.
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they wanted to, but they have some lame excuse they pretend fits so they
can make extra money.
They charge it because people pay for it.
There is no accounting rules that say you cannot give away things for
free.
Copy and Paste...meh
Global Search is going to come in handy.
upgrade with Cut and Paste, and Audio recording app, more
room for Application and a Search function. This as added
features with a simple firmware update. Pleased so far with
the results.
Grumble, grumble, mumbe, damn DRM encrusted piece of..mumble,grumble....
hoopla is over. Chill out
leave your finger resting on a web page on the screen, a big blue
box pops up around some of the text and thinks you want to
copy it. What a pain! In the six months I've had my iPhone, I think
I wanted to cut and past about twice. I much preferred the phone
without this "must-have" feature!
Relax man
way for the carriers to separate you from more of your money!
MMS is a ripoff indeed. Lots of carriers dont allow their phones to send photos in email, or make it really hard, because they want MMS fees.
It is granted it seems easier to send an sms... especially on most other phones where contacts are not so neatly integrated as iphone with email. But it is other phone's shortcomings on email access that makes sms still viable.
If you want to send the same message to multiple people, some will need email... some can see it via sms/mms.. some will have the mms portion stripped or blocked, and some will simply lose the sms in the ether.
sms is a total farce. really. If you read your fineprint it will tell you there is absolutely no guarantee an sms will be delivered or accepted, in any length of time or ever. Where as with email you have more control over the receipt, destination, attachments, etc.
All that, and it's free under the all-you-can-use net plan, vs. the paltry bit of free sms you get without paying.
But still, sms is push friendly.. and dings in your pocket.
Ah well... such is why I have system statuses SMS'd and emailed simultaneously. And pay for the privilege if a barrage of issues come up.
mail. And it sure would save a lot of typing!
No, it can be downloaded from iTunes!
iTunes is Software and iTunes Store is a portal.
Thus
"It can be uploaded from iTunes." to the device
Upload since the computer pushes the data to the iPod
"it can be downloaded from iTunes Store!!!!" to iTunes
Download since the iTunes software pulls the data
Nit picking can be annoying yea
Surely it's an update.
A revision is where something that already exists has been altered in
some way, usually to correct a fault or rectify an omission.
Okay, that's not the dictionary definition [and one could argue Apple
omitted to include copy/paste], but this is how we usually use the term -
isn't it?
Just for measure, here IS the dictionary definition:
revise |r??v??z|
verb [ trans. ]
1 reconsider and alter (something) in the light of further evidence : he
had cause to revise his opinion a moment after expressing it.
? reexamine and make alterations to (written or printed matter) : the
book was published in 1960 and revised in 1968 | [as adj. ] ( revised) a
revised edition.
Whereas:
update
verb |?p?de?t| [ trans. ]
make (something) more modern or up to date : security measures are
continually updated and improved | [as adj. ] ( updated) an updated list
of subscribers.
? give (someone) the latest information about something : the reporter
promised to keep the viewers updated.
It's an update.
But then if your brief is to present the impression that Apple has had to
reconsider and alter (something) in the light of further evidence', it sure
reads better than reporting that Apple has: 'make (something) more
modern or up to date'.
It's subtle, but not that subtle. I wonder how long they worked on it?
Don't worry guys, it's only the English language, available to download
AND upload [FREE] all over the planet, still developing, so often abused,
but not in need of revision or update!
I still wish for multiple folder levels for photos though.
Tell me about the Bluetooth capability.
Does it now connect to stereo bluetooth headsets
such as the BT-003 ?
Can you voice dial on it?
Whats the battery live on audio playback via
bluetooth?
Regards,
Eli
That is totally what I wanted to know too. When you begin to download the new 3.0 update; if you go through it slowly, at the beginning it provides a list of what is in the update. Stereo bluetooth is one of the items, but it had 3 asterisks by it, so you scroll down and then it says it is only for iPhone 3G and 3GS. Whew! We're in luck. It's not too much to ask to be able to use your BT stereo headset is it?!
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