Filed under: iPod Family, OS, WWDC, One More Thing, iPhone
10.5.3 and Beta 6 SDK, Oh my!
Something interesting is hiding in 10.5.3. I don't know what it is. I don't know what it does. But if it's necessary to upgrade if you want to use the new SDK release, that means that there's a something that ties 10.5.3 to new iPhone features. So intrepid TUAW readers-slash-detectives, what can you find lurking in that new 10.5.3 firmware release that provides new and exciting iPhone functionality? Let us know in the comments.
My completely wild pulling-it-from-the-posterior guess is something to do with AppStore support -- or maybe the iNewton -- or maybe "back to my iPhone" support -- or... No really, I have no clue. Hopefully Uncle Steve will give us something nice for Keynotemas. Until then, see if you can figure it out.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
djjazzyjoe said 5:42PM on 5-28-2008
has no one dissected the 10.5.3 update yet?
what's the hold-up?
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Bender Bending Rodriguez said 6:06PM on 5-28-2008
Patience, it's only been a few hours since it became available..
I am looking forward to this year's WWDC more so than MacWorld. It can't come soon enough. (Yes, I need to be patient too)
Tyler said 5:46PM on 5-28-2008
we've seen the google contacts sync already built into 10.5.3, i'm crossing my fingers for a file manager to be built for use with the iphone with the launch of the iphone appstore quickly approaching.
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drewgaren said 6:06PM on 5-28-2008
Most likely going to be the final SDK until the keynote. Should be seeing that iPhone rev 2 rolling out within the next 2 to six weeks. Hopefully.
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Multinova said 6:08PM on 5-28-2008
Maybee the integration of your contatcs + calender to google ?
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Behemoth said 6:12PM on 5-28-2008
Surely the google syncing?
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Michael said 6:22PM on 5-28-2008
What is wrong with this site? When you scroll down the page its not smooth at all. In firefox its much worse than in IE. Its still bad in IE. Is there some setting you can change. Anyone else notice it?
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Gavin said 6:49PM on 5-28-2008
Yeah I notice that too, very annoying.
me said 7:21PM on 5-28-2008
the problem is your using IE and firefox- Safari and Camino all the way
Scott F said 7:44PM on 5-28-2008
Yeah, this is majorly annoying!
Jesse Stafford said 12:47AM on 5-29-2008
yeah i definately notice the jerky scrolling in firefox, but i use safari mostly so it's more of an annoyance than a real bother. i am curious as to what caused it, it seems to have started just 3 months or so back for me.
Dr. Congo said 10:59AM on 7-07-2008
It's partly caused by the fixed background picture in the CSS, but even that doesn't normally cause as much of an issues as TUAW seems to have.
Whiplash said 6:24PM on 5-28-2008
I'd settle for notepad syncing.
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Richard said 6:47PM on 5-28-2008
amen to notepad sync
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RRed said 7:19PM on 5-28-2008
Im kinda hoping for good intergration of the phonefunctions like Blue Phone Elite. I want to see the incomming call on my screen and stuff!!
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John said 7:37PM on 5-28-2008
With 10.5.3, If you go to ~/system/library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources you will see the images of the computers you would find in the "shared" section (Hint: before a release of a newly designed computer, the image may appear there), also, there are two new images, an iPhone and an iPod Touch. This could be a sign of the ability to enable disk use...
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PDA131 said 8:08PM on 5-28-2008
Nice find! I see that too.
ss2cire said 7:51PM on 5-28-2008
actually, those might be images for itunes to access... but hopefully it's disk use!
Todd Wright said 7:58PM on 5-28-2008
The camera now has GPS tagging abilities.
Erica, I will try to send you a screenshot.
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Jason Williams said 1:44AM on 5-29-2008
They still haven't added native WWAN support for the AT&T GT Ultra Express card yet (as was expected in 10.5.3). Kind of a bummer since you can't get the GT 3.6 card anymore. Makes Verizon the only integrated option for ExpressCard on OS X atm.
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