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New iPhone Home Screen Features Spotlight Search [IPhone 3.0]
Gizmodo —
... The new Spotlight search menu in the iPhone 3.0 OS resides to the left of the regular home screen and functions as a quick search and quick launcher across all applications. ...
Apple Puts Onus On AT&T For 3G Tethering, Confirms Hardware Support [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... of course): Q: Where do you stand on tethering? A: There's two pieces needed to support that: client side and working with carriers. We're absolutely supporting tethering in the client side in iPhone 3.0, but we're working with carriers around the world to see when they can add tethering support on their networks. But we are building that support into iPhone 3.0. Looks like jailbroken tethering will live on, for now. [iPhone 3.0 OS Guide: Everything You Need to Know]
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Devs Get iPhone 3.0 OS Beta Now; Final Release Summer, Free for iPhone and $10 for iPod Touch [Apple]
Gizmodo —
No hard date for its public release: the official line is "summer" when it will be free for all iPhones (although hobbled on the iPhone EDGE, with no MMS and no stereo Bluetooth) and $9.95 for iPod touches. Now let's see how long it takes for those beta images to start circulating around. It will pop here when it's available (site is still down as of this writing): Apple Developer Connection. [iPhone 3.0 OS Guide: Everything You Need to Know]
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iPhone Cut, Copy and Paste Plus MMS Coming This Summer
iPhone Savior —
... iPhone MMS support that will allow users to send and receive Photos over the network including
Contacts (VCards), Audio files or even your location. Record voice memos to yourself, lectures, interviews using the
built in microphone or an external microphone then trim it using
the iPhone itself. Send it onward via email or MMS. This feature set sounds incredibly exciting, opening up endless instant communication possibilities for casual users, newsies and bloggers. [Gizmodo] ...
Watch the Entire iPhone 3.0 Keynote Event [Apple]
Gizmodo —
There is a lot of information to digest in the iPhone 3.0 update. If you want to get up to speed, check out our definitive guide—or watch the keynote in its entirety. [Apple]
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iPhone 3.0 Rumor Check: Rose Was Right [Apple]
Gizmodo —
So it looks like Kevin Rose still knows what the hell he's talking about when it comes to Apple-centric rumors...for the most part. The Digg founder was nearly perfect with his predictions that the iPhone would have cut and paste, but no video. His claims that the iPhone would have more Palm Pre-esque features was also more or less accurate. Granted, these weren't as controversial as some of his other claims, but it's still impressive. The one prediction Rose didn't get right? He claimed there wouldn't be MMS support this ...
What Phone OS Are You Most Excited About Now? [Qotd]
Gizmodo —
... (have you heard of it?), and since it's not the only new/updated OS launching this year, I wonder: which upcoming OS are you looking forward to most? ...
iPhone OS 3.0 Will Turn Your Phone Into a Revolutionary Sex Toy [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... The latest features in the new iPhone OS 3.0 make it a better phone, GPS, gaming and computing platforms. But they also have the potential to turn it into the most perfect sex toy yet. ...
iPhone's First Turn-by-Turn Navigation App XROAD G-Map Yanked from App Store [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
... The sole official explanation lies on the XROAD site, that "G-Map U.S. East and West are being reviewed for improvement and will be back in the App Store soon." But as we know, the iPhone 3.0 OS revealed yesterday has baked in turn-by-turn for navigation apps, so the timing is notable. ...
iPhone 3.0 Lifts 10MB Over-the-Air Download Cap For Podcasts [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... , preempt a dissonance that I wondered about during the Keynote: How could Apple justify a 10MB cap on downloads when they're allowing continuous video streams in apps? They couldn't, I guess, and it's great news for anyone who listens to podcasts that aren't just daily info-nuggets. [ ...
iPhone 3G Tethering Now Working for Someone, Somewhere [Apple]
Gizmodo —
A developer called Steve Troughton-Smith has managed to activate and use the 3G tethering feature available in the new iPhone 3.0 OS. He can now use his iPhone to connect his laptop to the internet. I missed this one—even while I gave up and joined the Twitter cult a couple of days ago, after trying TweetDeck—but apparently Wired thinks it may be legit because Troughton-Smith has other captures and his story seems to be coherent. Unlike his explanation about it: So if you were looking at how to activate it—like I ...
How to Enable 3G Tethering in Your iPhone 3.0 Now [Apple]
Gizmodo —
We haven't tried this—as it doesn't work with AT&T; yet—but someone has published a tutorial about how to enable 3G tethering in the iPhone OS 3.0. Note: UK People start here. HOW TO ENABLE TETHERING ON YOUR 3.0 iPHONE Step 1: Check if you own a 3G iPhone. If you're on EDGE (as I am): sorry. Tethering does not seem to work with EDGE phones. Step 2: Check to see if AT&T; is your carrier. If it is: sorry. AT&T; will not let you tether. Step 3: Navigate to ~/Library/iTunes/iPhone Carrier Support. ...
Apple WWDC 2009 Dates Set: June 8-12 [Apple]
Gizmodo —
Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference, where we're likely to see all of Snow Leopard's spots and maybe a new iPhone to go with iPhone 3.0 OS, will take place from June 8-12. [Apple - Thanks Justin!]
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iPhone 3.0 Streaming Bluetooth Audio To a Toyota Venza [IPhone]
Gizmodo —
As you probably already know, the upcoming iPhone 3.0 software was upgraded with Stereo Bluetooth A2DP audio, so you can pair it with a compatible device—like the stereo installed in this 2009 Toyota Venza. As you will see in the video, the process looks pretty smooth—even with beta software. Hopefully this will mean less annoying adapters and cords for us to deal with in the future. [Kicking Tires]
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Giz Explains: All The Smartphone Mobile App Stores [Giz Explains]
Gizmodo —
... all App Store owners, has the final say in what gets listed, delisted or banned, and they aren't afraid to remind us of this. Along with the typical risque/racist/infringing content prohibitions, Apple enforces strict and often limiting rules against apps that compete with the iPhone's native set—iTunes, Mail.app, Safari to name a few—and apps that their partnered carriers aren't too fond of, i.e video streaming apps. Now, all these rules are showing signs of loosening with OS 3.0, but as long as the App Store is the sole source of iPhone apps, any rules ...
MLB Streaming Full Live Games to iPhone Over 3G, Starting Tomorrow [IPhone Apps]
Gizmodo —
A couple months ago, a Major League Baseball spokeperson hinted that live video streaming—one of the vaunted promises of iPhone 3.0—could make its way to the league's $10 At Bat app. Tomorrow, they're making good on their tease. Set to be updated immediately after the firmware 3.0 release, the app will stream out-of-market games (no locals, sadly) at a rate of one or two a day. The thing that'll set At Bat apart from existing video apps by CBS (and others) will be its ability to stream over 3G, without apparent ...
Apple's Chickenshit Approval Process Has Gone Too Far [Apple]
Gizmodo —
... 's major new features that it can use Google Maps inside of other applications? So like every app can use Google to serve maps tiles. I admit, though, Latitude is a really big word. What does it even mean? That is pretty confusing. Maybe they should call it, like, Google Stalker. ...
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