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Wondering what's in iPhone OS 3.1? There's a YouTube video for that

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 14th, 2009)

So here's something interesting, if you're curious to know what features might be in iPhone OS 3.1. It seems YouTube is chock full of videos shot in what seems to be defiance of Apple's NDA for 3.1 features. A couple of gems hint at expanded copy/paste functions, and there's one video which we ...

Is this what's in the next iPhone update?

by Mel Martin (Jul 1st, 2009)

The iPhone Blog is reporting what's purported to be in the next, and hopefully imminent iPhone update to version 3.1. As we've reported, developers were seeded with the beta Tuesday. Here's the list: Voice Control now works over Bluetooth Updated AT&T profile to 4.2 (MMS is now enabled) ...

News apps! Get your News apps!

by David Winograd (Jun 29th, 2009)

MSNBC recently added an iPhone app to the store, so we thought it was a good time to take a look at a few news apps. The gold standard for news on the iPhone is the USA Today app. Love them or hate them, the USA Today punchy writing style feels right at home on the iPhone. News can be received from ...

iPhone 3G S Launch Day: Interview with Airstrip's Cameron Powell

by Michael Rose (Jun 19th, 2009)

We had a quick chat with Dr. Wm. Cameron Powell of Airstrip Technologies at the 5th Avenue Apple Store this morning, talking about his company's data visualization and monitoring tools for hospital use. Airstrip's FDA-approved application for OB monitoring is already on the App Store in demo ...

Interview with Ian & Bruce from Freeverse, iPhone 3G S launch day

by Michael Rose (Jun 19th, 2009)

Freeverse president Ian Lynch Smith and dev lead Bruce Morrison were among the crowds at the 5th Avenue Store early this morning, and both are enthused about the promise of the new iPhone hardware for gamers. We took a few minutes to talk to them (pardon the loud store noise). ...

Inside iPhone 3.0: Tethering

by Chris Rawson (Jun 17th, 2009)

While I trashed Vodafone NZ's pricing in a previous post, in at least one way it's far ahead of U.S. telco giant AT&T: internet tethering using the iPhone is already possible over Vodafone's network without resorting to lengthy, kludgy, and unsupported hacks. Who knows how long tethering will ...

TUAW at WWDC 2009: We want to hear from you

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 5th, 2009)

It's that time of year again. In the US, schools are emptying, weather is heating up and all sorts of developers are readying to wend their way to San Francisco for Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference, or WWDC. Sure, the noncoding masses are expecting a hardware announcement (new iPhone, ...

Safari Browser 3.0 for iPhone is GPS-aware

by Steven Sande (Jun 1st, 2009)

One of the relatively unsung features of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 firmware is that the new version of Safari for iPhone will use geolocation. This means that the browser can request location information from the iPhone's GPS receiver, and can also provide that location information to websites that ...

New iPhone OS 3.0 beta hits the dev center

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 14th, 2009)

But you knew this, right? Fire up your downloaders, another update from Apple means the digging has already begun for a) new features or updates, b) hints for a new iPhone. Thanks to everyone who sent this in! I'd like to note that we broke this via our Twitter feed several hours ago. Even if you ...

iPhone OS 3.0 brings the speed for JavaScript

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 27th, 2009)

Ars is reporting the 3.0 speed improvements to Mobile Safari's JavaScript engine range from 3x to 16x -- a blessed boon to web developers everywhere. No one seems to know if Mobile Safari will be sporting Nitro or SquirrelFish or what, but whatever it is, it'll be faster. If you check out the ...

iPhone 3.0 Friday roundup

by Christina Warren (Mar 20th, 2009)

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 ...

Dept. of "That Was Awfully Quick": eager devs enable tethering on iPhone 3.0

by Michael Rose (Mar 19th, 2009)

Update: We've heard from two separate developers (Ari Weinstein and Jake Marsh) that they've put together quick and easy methods for enabling tethering on 3.0 iPhones (an all-in-one tool and a full user guide, respectively). Check out the links for details. When something so appealing as the ...

iPhone 3.0 feature predictions: TUAW report card

by Dave Caolo (Mar 17th, 2009)

As is our wont, we predicated today's iPhone press event with our own predictions and wishes for what would be released. Let's look back and see how we did. Copy and paste As the event wore on, and everything but copy and paste was being announced, I started to worry. "Someday," I thought, "This ...

Some thoughts on iPhone OS 3.0

by Mel Martin (Mar 17th, 2009)

I was a bit taken aback and pleasantly surprised by all the features crammed into the 'coming by summer' update. Stereo Bluetooth on 3G and iPod touch, a hint of tethering support if cell providers provision it, and turn by turn navigation, which I think surprised many. Apple had signaled last year ...

Apple posts iPhone event video

by Cory Bohon (Mar 17th, 2009)

As the day is slowly drawing to a close (quite literally for iPhone developers who are downloading the SDK), Apple has finally put up the video from the iPhone 3.0 event today. You can watch Greg, Scott, Phil, and others as they discuss Apple's plans for the new iPhone OS and SDK. Be sure to check ...