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iPhone 3.0 OS

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iPhone 3.0 OS

Published by Mike
8th April 2009

iPhone 3.0 OS

Apple have previewed the new iPhone operating system upgrade designated 3.0. This upgrade will add over 100 new features together with provding significant changes to the SDK thereby allowing developers much greater flexibility in creating new rich applications.

The most welcome changes to the OS will include:

Copy & Paste text & photos
When you double-tap over text, you will get a "cut, copy, and paste" bubble dialog. Double-tap again and a "paste" bubble will appear if there's anything stored in your clipboard. This works across applications. You can expand your selection points using your thumbs and, if you accidentally paste something you didn't want to paste, just shake your iPhone to undo.

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By philzgr8 on 8th April 2009, 10:30 AM

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Clearly Apple are already miles ahead of Microsoft with their implementation of this technology and I'm so tempted to jump. Now if only I could get an iPhone with a Treo style keypad I'm there. I'm afraid I'm not likely to be in any big hurry to go back to any device that doesn't give that sort of ergonomic advantage.

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By supafly on 8th April 2009, 09:35 PM

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Been looking forward to this when I first heard about it, least now we can get some turn by turn GPS apps, and native MMS. No need to Jailbreak now.

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By vlad on 8th April 2009, 10:01 PM

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Minor release IMO. Where is multitasking?

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By Mike on 9th April 2009, 01:03 AM

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Originally Posted by vlad

Minor release IMO. Where is multitasking?

Minor??

Couldn't agree with that Vlad - I reckon it's huge!

As for multitasking, frankly I'd rather not have it since battery life is already pretty woeful at the best of times and knowing me, I'd finish up with 20 apps running in the background and forget about them.

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By vlad on 9th April 2009, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike

I reckon it's huge!

Why? Because copy and paste? It had to be in v1.0 With MMS. Funny how some people react on crippled OS being slowly fixed to the state any other was from the beginning.

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By Mike on 9th April 2009, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by vlad

Funny how some people react on crippled OS being slowly fixed to the state any other was from the beginning.

Mmm - lemme see - who did you remind me of then???

But of course you're right - almost. You may call it crippled, and whilst I agree that copy paste and MMS should have been there fro the start, after using every other mobile OS (except Android) over the last 20 years, even without those components the iPhone is still miles ahead of anything else.

When I said "huge", I think it feels that way to me after watching the video (hour and a half) from the March 17 "event" a few days ago and saw what's around the corner as a result of Apple extending the SDK (over 1,000 new APIs).

If you have the time it's well worth a look, (link below) and from my POV, Apple have done a damned fine job so far and look like continuing on with it.

If you do watch the vid., most of the first hour is about marketing, sales and what the developers are doing, the consumer features start at around 1:05 into it if I remember right. Hope you have better luck that me, I couldn't get the vid to play on any of my PCs and finished up having to watch it on my iphone over wi-fi where it played perfectly!! - go figure.

[link to video]

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By vlad on 9th April 2009, 09:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike

Mmm - lemme see - who did you remind me of then???

I see...

Mike, don't get me wrong. I have iPhone and love it.
v3.0 had to be v1.5 - because everyone was asking for all these additions just after the release.
Multitasking should be there, for apps like Skype, but not to the extend of WM, where all apps are in memory.

I have watched the event, one thing they have forgotten to mention - most of those apps are fart apps

But I liked the model where you can sell additional farts within application

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By Mike on 9th April 2009, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by vlad

most of those apps are fart apps

But I liked the model where you can sell additional farts within application

LOL - I said APIs not apps.

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By dgaust on 9th April 2009, 05:12 PM

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Some interesting APIs in there, like the real time video overlay (not sure what it would be useful for, but it looks cool) and of course corelocation (GPS).

I know people want MMS, but really, with what teenagers get up to with it, I think that's one thing my kids phone won't ever have

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