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iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond: News: Analysis: Five major iPhone 3.0 issues users expect to be addressed
iPodObserver: Apple Announces In-App Subscription Model for iPhone App
Phones Review: Apple iPhone 3.0 OS preview event and recap
Cult of Mac: iPhone OS 3.0 Makes Me Feel Better About Waiting
jkOnTheRun: iPhone 3.0: Underwhelming, Super-Exciting or Just Right?
News: Analysis: Five major iPhone 3.0 issues users expect to be addressed
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond —
In less than two hours, Apple will hold an event to pre-announce details of its iPhone OS 3.0. We will be linking to Engadget’s live coverage of this event, found here . As the event takes place, users should pay especially close attention to Apple’s answers to the following five major issues regarding the upcoming software release, as well as important surrounding changes to iPhone and iPod touch hardware and accessory support. 5. Pricing: Will original iPhone owners need to pay for iPhone OS 3.0? How much will iPod touch users pay? Though Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo don’t ...
Apple Announces In-App Subscription Model for iPhone App
iPodObserver —
Apple announced Tuesday a new subscription model for iPhone apps the company is calling In-App Subscriptions. The model allows developers to charge for additional content, including such things as new levels for a game, additional cities for a city guide, or renewing one's subscription to a magazine, all from within the app without having to return to the App Store. The company made the announcement at its iPhone 3.0 preview event in Cupertino. According to Engadget , Apple executive Scott Forstall also stressed that the subscription model would only be available in paid ...
Apple iPhone 3.0 OS preview event and recap
Phones Review —
... need to know where we all are with the iPhone. The iPhone is now in 80 countries which is a massive success and before they shipped its first phone they set a goal, their goal was to sell 10 million phones and with 13.7m sold is a major success (he actually said “We blew it away.”).
Altogether they have sold 17m, so you can see how the iPhone is doing and how well it will continue to do. We here at Phones Review will keep you posted about the latest news.
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Apple iPhone OS 3.0: Scott Forstall on Apps, Devs & Features
Phones Review —
... directly with the iTunes store, when you tap the screen to buy, it will bring up the standard iTunes authentication panel.
He also mentioned “City Guide, you can sell the app, and then sell new cities from within the application. This is for paid apps only.” “The model for in-app sales is the same as the rest of the App Store, 70% goes to developers.”
Of course free apps will stay free and will not be asked to buy something in that app.
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Apple Announces Peer-to-Peer Connectivity for iPhone App
iPodObserver —
Apple announced Tuesday that iPhone Software 3.0 will include the ability for two iPhones or iPod touches to connect directly to other iPhones/iPod touches running the same app. This feature will allow games to offer head-to-head gameplay, or allow to users to quickly exchange contact information. "With the new APIs, you can bring up a standard system panel which finds other touches or iPhones which are in the same app," Apple executive Scott Forstall said, according to an Engadget report . "You form an IP connection, and you can game together. This will automatically discover ...
Apple iPhone OS 3.0: Peer to Peer connectivity
Phones Review —
... info with anyone, it does NOT matter if there is a wi-fi network available. This makes it so much easier to say the least.
Peer to Peer connectivity is what we will all love, a brand new API which will let you find all other iPhones/iPod touches in the area playing the same game. Play games with friends locally over the network, cool features like “Automatic Discovery” will make so much easier to do, using Bluetooth and NOT via Wi-Fi, NO pairing —completely seamless.
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Apple to Allow iPhone Apps to Talk to Third Party Hardware
iPodObserver —
Apple announced Tuesday that iPhone Software 3.0 will include a new API that will allow iPhone apps to talk directly to third party hardware. The announcement came during the company's media event previewing iPhone Software 3.0. According to an Engadget report , Apple executive Scott Forstall offered a couple of examples of such application-to-hardware communication, including a blood pressure application that interfaced directly with a sphygomometer (the pump and armband device used to check blood pressure). Other examples included a pair of speakers with an iPod dock and a ...
iPhone OS 3.0 Makes Me Feel Better About Waiting
Cult of Mac —
... Image copyright Engadget
Apple took the wraps off its iPhone OS 3.0 this morning, and it was a veritable smorgasbord of features that probably should have been included upon the initial release of the iPhone. Take a look:
Cut, copy, and paste
Spotlight search
Note syncing
MMS
Landscape keyboard support in non-Safari apps
Undo
I mean, seeing that list all together, it almost begins to feel remarkable that Apple made such a great device that was oddly lacking in ...
iPhone 3.0: Underwhelming, Super-Exciting or Just Right?
jkOnTheRun —
... a long lunch with St. Patrick (or just some old guy in green clothes, I’m not sure which) and just catching up on the Apple iPhone 3.0 Software event. By now, you’ve probably seen that cut, copy and paste made the cut. So did MMS support (for 3G models), stereo Bluetooth, universal search in the form of Spotlight, and Push notifications which apparently got pushed into this year. Actually, there’s plenty more good stuff in there as you can see from Engadget’s live blog, which was my first stop. No news on new hardware, which ...
Apple iPhone 3.0 OS: Accessories that work with iPhone & iPods
Phones Review —
... the event showed off a blood pressure reader which interfaces with the iPhone (Now that is awesome).
What about medical applications? Well there is this medical cuff for example that will chat with the iPhone and will help you track your blood pressure over time, this is so good it means that developers can take full advantage of accessories and talking to accessories via such suck connectors or even via Bluetooth. We will bring you more on this over the next few weeks.
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Apple iPhone 3.0: Embed Maps into App, Core Location & More
Phones Review —
... hybrid, map views, Wi-Fi/mobile location, pinch-and-zoom and there is also reverse geo-code your location.
Developers will have the opportunity to use Core Location as basis for turn-by-turn direction applications. Apparently you will have to bring your own maps because of licensing; you cannot use built-in map tiles for turn-by-turn because that will be Google’s API license. Oh yes as they say because you will have your very own iPhone GPS system when 3.0 arrives.
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Today’s Apple iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Event
Touch Arcade —
... the most versatile and elegant mobile / smartphone interface on the market. iPhone 3.0 greatly expands the unit’s capabilities and should bring a wave of applications that exploit the iPhone’s capabilities on a whole new level–and among those applications, of course, are games.
Apple will be releasing the iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade this summer, free to all iPhone owners. The iPod touch upgrade will be available at a cost of $9.95.
[ Photos 1 & 3 courtesy of Engadget, photo 2 courtesy of Gizmodo ]
Apple iPhone 3.0 OS: Cut, Copy and Paste demo details
Phones Review —
... software; you can select multiple pictures and copy them, then paste them into a mail message.
Scott at the event said “Cocoa Touch controls have support for copy/paste built in. “Next… landscape. We always had support for landscape built in. This is great for reading stories. A lot of users love that landscape keyboard. We’re now taking that to all of our key apps. Starting with Mail. So, landscape in Mail. It works in Notes and SMS as well.”
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