iPhone 3.0 Friday roundup
Tuesday's iPhone OS 3.0 announcement has left the interwebs even more iPhone-obsessed than usual. If you find digging through all this information overwhelming (or, if like me you were out of town when OS 3.0 was announced), check out this round-up of news, opinions and videos. The only thing missing is a beta copy of OS 3.0 and that's already floating around various torrent sites.If that's not enough, be sure to check out our continuing iPhone OS 3.0 coverage.
Watch the OS 3.0 presentation -- Were you left off the invite list too? Check out the video in HD or SD at the link above or in iTunes [iTunes link] as a video podcast.
Engadget's iPhone OS 3.0 Hub -- Engadget has a whole page dedicated to their furious and hands-on iPhone OS 3.0 coverage, including this video walkthrough.
What Apple Didn't Announce -- Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 presentation didn't answer every question or address every iPhone issue. Our old friend David Chartier tackles what was left out.
SDK 3.0 brings more NDA fun -- Much to the chagrin of many iPhone devlopers, the NDA is back for SDK 3.0. At Arstechnica, our pal Erica takes on what this means for developers. Let's just hope the NDA is lifted as soon as 3.0 is officially released.
OS 3.0 Screenshot Pr0n -- Pfft, what NDA? iLounge has put together a great gallery of iPhone OS 3.0 screenshots, showing off what's new and improved. Love it.
iPhone OS 3.0 vs. Android -- Lifehacker has a pretty neat comparison of features that are currently avaialable in the iPhone 2.21, stuff that's coming in OS 3.0 and what's available and coming for Android. As someone who has spent a LOT of time using both the iPhone OS and the T-Mobile G1, I'd just add that hardware and UI is actually just as important as "features" when comparing the two platforms. Right now, the iPhone absolutely cleans Android's clock -- despite having fewer "features" -- because the hardware is better (that G1 keyboard is terrible), the UI is more thought-out and the third-party software is better by leaps and bounds. (hat tip, Gruber)
Future iPod/iPhone models referenced in latest betas -- The latest iPhone OS 3.0 SDK includes references to future iPhone and iPod models (3,1) and two other unknown devices.
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One thing that I haven't seen that I would be interested to know is, with the enabling of bluetooth on the ipod touch, will I be able to share my 3G connection from my mobile phone via bluetooth. My phone doesn't have wifi so I can't use something like Joikuspot, but I would love to be able to access the internet anywhere on my ipod touch using my 3g mobile and bluetooth. Will this be possible under os 3.0?
March 26 2009 at 7:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis would be awesome. I'm hoping the new software hooks will allow developers to at least look at sharing stuff that way (making the iPod touch act as a client computer so it can accept a shared data connection). Granted, sharing a connection over bluetooth might not be any faster than the joikuspot method (my phone DOES have wifi, BlackBerry people just aren't interested in trying to port the app, which is frustrating...), but it certainly has potential.
I have been using it since the 17th.... yes a little sluggish. But after reading some forums I realized it is best to NOT do a restore but install as a new phone.... I reloaded as a NEW phone and almost all my problems went away some apps crash but relatively stable this is my everyday phone my life...... AGAIN this is BETA I LOVE all the new features, yes way long overdue but guess what.... there are here now...apparently Apple is listening to us 1) soon video 2) ichat? the future is looking good
March 22 2009 at 5:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyGuys, could we maybe have a little less fanboyism and a little more reporting/analysis?
Right now, the iPhone absolutely cleans Android's clock -- despite having fewer "features" -- because the hardware is better (that G1 keyboard is terrible),
Subjective and largely unjustified. Also, the hardware on the G1 is actually ENABLED, while the iPhone's is crippled and will remain partially crippled after the 3.0 update. The G1 is much faster and has more RAM. It also at least has the OPTION of using a hardware keyboard which the iPhone does not share.
the UI is more thought-out
Also subjective.
and the third-party software is better by leaps and bounds. (hat tip, Gruber)
The software library seems to me to be quite similar, if smaller on Android.
I'm very curious about the 1000 new APIs and 100 new features in iPhone 3.0 but I'm not a paid iphone developer so haven't got access to them. So, where could I go to find an annotated list of all 1000 new API hooks and all 100 new features. Something like what Apple did on announcing the Leopard had 300 new features.
March 21 2009 at 3:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replywhy in my area have this iphone sell?
March 21 2009 at 4:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHEY, If you guys need on a DEV account to use iPhone OS 3.0 just send me an email. You will also be included in our up and coming app beta test!
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I used it for a day. IMO it's entirely useable if a little sluggish.
Ironically, I downgraded back to 2.2.1 mostly because I need copy and paste! Apple's version didn't work as well as the Clippy app for Jailbroken phones for what I needed. (not able to paste into Safari) No doubt it'll be improved in the final version. Spotlight was very nice but needs the option to search safari bookmarks and history.
They need a way to disable landscape auto-rotation. I find it annoying enough in iPod and Safari and now it happens everywhere!
Several apps stopped working for me.
Never tried the new MMS or new Bluetooth features.
I installed 3.0 last night to play around with it, but the damn thing is soooo buggy, that i rolled back to my lovely jailbroken 2.2.1 about an hour later.
3.0 is definitely NOT ready for an every day use.
Oh, and the current MMS implementation is a complete FAIL.
One thing no one has reviewed is the calendar....
Can i dial a phone number by clicking on it if it is embedded in a appointment? Giant headache dialing a con-call number with pin
Where is my pencil and paper? I have to write it down as no field in an appointment is clickable - only editable if i created it.
I hope this is fixed!
I can't agree more! What a pain in the butt!
March 21 2009 at 5:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAt least you have copy and paste now....not sure if you could copy and past into the phone, probably not....
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