Are iPhones causing mistrials nationwide?

Jury members around the country are apparently using the Internet on mobile phones while in court, leading to potential mistrials.

Dev Team Jailbreak Beta version of iPhone Firmware 3.0

iheartradio keeps pumping up

Clear Channel Radio announced that iPhone application, iheartradio just keeps getting downloaded. Streaming through iheartmusic, the app is seeing listener growth of 13 percent a week, every week since launching. The iPhone application has been downloaded more than one millions times. The increase in listeners via the iPhone sees the Clear ...

iPhone Dev Team: Don’t Load iPhone OS 3.0 Beta if You Want to Keep Using YellowSn0w

Anytime there’s an update — or in this case, even a new beta firmware for developers to test out months ahead of an update — the iPhone Dev Team reminds Jailbreak users, especially those running unlocked using YellowSn0w to stop, breathe, and wait for the “all clear” before updating.

In this case, the Dev Team says:

If you find yourself with access to the 3G IPSW for 3.0 via the iPhone Dev Center program, and you are using yellowsn0w, do not update or restore to that official IPSW. You will lose yellowsn0w and find yourself unable to revert the baseband to get it back.

And for those wondering, yes the 3.0 OS is jailbreakable on all devices. It’s just those using 3G yellowsn0w that have to show some restraint and wait for PwnageTool to create a custom IPSW that avoids the baseband update.

No big surprise they can crack the 3.0 firmware, though Apple might still throw some curves their way in future betas or the final release. We’re guessing the true next step in the cat and mouse game will be iPhone 2,1 hardware, which could prove as tricky, if not trickier, than the iPod touch 2,1 which took quite a while to get to RedSn0w…

(Thanks to everyone that sent this in!)

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iPhone 3.0 feature predictions: TUAW report card

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS, Software, iPhone, SDK, iPod touch

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 event will be known as The Great Copy And Paste Debacle." The attending geek corps were about to slip into Angry Mob Mode, replacing their laptops with torches and pitchforks, when Scott Forstall gave them what they wanted. Crisis averted.

How did TUAW score? Quite well. Mike Rose, Cory, Steve and Aron all called for copy and paste.

Push

Remember Apple's promise of push notification for developers? We nearly forgot, too. It was finally announced today, and Aron was the only TUAW blogger to call it. Incidentally, we shudder to think of how fart apps will make use of push notification.

Landscape keyboard in Mail

Once again, Aron comes through and calls for a landscape keyboard in Mail. I would have done the same, but I've found that my muscle memory has acclimated itself to the portrait keyboard, and I now make more mistakes when it's in landscape mode.

Notes sync

While Aron was the only TUAW blogger to wish for notes synchronization, he wasn't really alone. Fortunately, he got his wish. Score: we're at 4 out of 4.

Lock screen changes

This would have been a good one. Both Aron and I have wished for a customizable lock screen. Instead of the time and date, I might like to see the weather, number of waiting emails, calendar appointments for the day and so on. Apple let us down.

Tethering

We've been hearing rumors about this for quite a while now. Steve, Cory and Mike Rose all called for it this time around, and their wishes were granted. Thanks, Apple! Score: 4 out of 6.

Wireless keyboard

While we saw a slew of cool accessories today (I'm not even a doctor and I want the blood pressure cuff), there was no official keyboard from Apple. While hackers have paired a Bluetooth keyboard to a jailbroken phone, blogger Steve saw his wish for the real deal fall flat. Sorry, Steve.

Springboard changes

This could use some work. Not because it's bad, but because five screens of apps quickly become disorganized and cluttered. Plus, jumping from a collection of games to a collection of utilities is a real swipe-tastic pain in the butt.

There's a concept video floating around that demonstrates how this could work via iTunes. It's neat, but I'd rather see something on the iPhone itself. Similar to how Dash Board enhances the experience on a Newton. Mike Rose, Cory, Aron and I all called for this change. It's due.

Enhanced search

Cory and Mike Rose both asked for greater search capabilities, and Apple delivered. The other features we were after, namely greater call reliability, MMS and calendar enhancement, received one vote each. The enhanced calendar and MMS (for 3G owners at least) are coming for sure; we'll have to wait and see about greater call reliability.

As for the final tally, we went 7 out of 12, or 58%. Not too shabby. What did you miss?

iPhone 3.0 feature predictions: TUAW report card originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone Firmware 3.0: 100 New Features Including Copy & Paste, MMS, Spotlight, Stereo Bluetooth, Push Notification & More

Some thoughts on iPhone OS 3.0

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, iPod touch

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 that there were lots of problems in providing this feature.

MMS and copy and paste were big features on many users lists, and some had predicted MMS would not make it.

And then there are little surprises, like in-app purchasing. Take a wild guess on how fast Amazon will add this to their Kindle app. Peer to peer communication between iPhones will open up a whole new world of unexpected and leading edge apps and games.

Of course 'push' capability made it in, finally, and developers will have fun exploiting all the possibilities.

It's a good bet that Apple is responding to competition, especially from the upcoming Palm Pre. There was a perception that Apple had fallen behind in the feature wars, and this update will quench a lot of that chatter. Even with this massive update, people will still want to use their phone as a camcorder, and voice dial didn't make it into the mix, at least so far. Apple has said they may have more to announce.

I can't remember any software update for a phone that added so many features. When I had a Windows Mobile phone, updates were seldom seen and were generally not very exciting. Mostly, I remember a few bug fixes, but not many new features.

Apple is to be congratulated for doing so much with the existing iPhone 3G and iPod touch, but I can also sympathize with owners of the first generation iPhone that will get some, but not all of the new features due to limitations in the original hardware.

On balance it is nice to see two trends that I hope continue. First, Apple is responding to user feedback, and also responding to the market in ways that the old Apple did not.

I think a day like today makes most people happy they have an iPhone, as it is proving to be an investment that keeps renewing itself. Certainly, there is a good chance that Apple will release new hardware this year, with even more features, more memory, and likely a faster processor.

Still, this is a rather mammoth update and pretty much like getting a whole new phone. It speaks directly to those who say 'I'd buy an iPhone if it had cut and paste, or MMS, but otherwise no sale'.

Sure, it would be nice if the original iPhone shipped with all those features, but Apple has continued to invest in and enhance this platform, doing things their own way and on their own schedule.

All in all, I feel pretty good about Apple today. How about you? Let the flames begin.

Some thoughts on iPhone OS 3.0 originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPhone OS 3.0 hands-on!

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/iPhone_OS_3_0_hands_on'; We're not saying how, but we got hooked up with the beta of iPhone OS 3.0. Overall, things feel about the same until you flick left that extra time and hit the Spotlight screen, which works just as advertised. It's definitely a beta, though: it's laggy all around and some things don't work, like taking a photo directly in the MMS app. We took some quick snaps, check 'em out below and let us know what you want to see in the video!

Update: Added a few snaps of the landscape keyboard in Messages and Mail, anything else?

Filed under: Cellphones

iPhone OS 3.0 hands-on! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New iPhone software has something for businesses

The iPhone 3.0 software has some new features for businesses, but it still lacks things they need, administrators and enterprise application developers say.

Apple posts iPhone event video

If you couldn't make it to the Apple event on Tuesday, you can watch the video posted to the company's Web site.

Push notifications on the iPhone: once bitten, twice shy?

At Tuesday's preview of the iPhone 3.0 software, Apple announced that its push notification system would be coming in the update.

Apple posts iPhone event video

Filed under: Other Events, Developer, iPhone

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 out our coverage of the event, and our roundup of all the new iPhone OS features.

You can watch the QuickTime stream here.

Apple posts iPhone event video originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Five iPhone accessories I want to see now

Apple says that the iPhone 3.0 update will feature support for accessories that attach to the iPhone’s dock connector. Melissa J. Perenson has a wishlist of accessories that she hopes will appear.

Apple sued because of exploding iPod

Last December while at school a child heard a "loud pop", and before long his iPod and pants were on fire. The family of a child in Kentucky is suing Apple as this incident has apparently rendered him unable to "earn income in the future." It has been noted that the ...

Kevin Rose “confirms” cut/paste in iPhone 3.0

Apple have announced a special event on March 17th, where the company will launch the iPhone OS 3.0 Software. One of speculations about what might be coming in the new release is copy/paste ability. Yeah, Digg founder Kevin Rose just confirmed it ! As 9to5Mac wrote, We're not huge fans of Diggnation ...

QuickTime Stream of iPhone 3.0 Media Event Available

A QuickTime stream of Apple's iPhone 3.0 media event has been posted. The event revealed a massive list of new features for developers and end-users which we summarized in a previous post.

The iPhone 3.0 software will be ava...

Apple Posts iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Event Streaming Video

Apple has posted their usual streaming QuickTime video of today’s iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Event.

Watch it now via Apple.com…

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iPhone Dev Center is back, get your beta now

Filed under: Other Events, Developer, iPhone

Just as developers around the world are hearing about the new iPhone features, Apple has updated their Dev Center. With the new site, existing developers will get immediate access to the new iPhone 3.0 SDK. That is if you are able to login. Currently the Dev Center is experiencing extremely slow load times, and kicking some users off when they try to login.

It will be interesting to see if non-developers will register for the $99/year program, just to get access to the beta of iPhone 3.0. Be sure to take part in our poll below.

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iPhone Dev Center is back, get your beta now originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Firmware 3.0 is nearly ready

The show was really good, a lot of very good new features in that OS 3.0 for our preferred phone. Copy/Paste and MMS are nearly ready for us and a lot of APIs for the developers to build new very cool applications.

Also, Bluetooth will be better used by the iPhone, so it was not a hardware issue but a software problem to use stereo headset, and communicate with other devices via Bluetooth.

The only problem, we need to wait until this summer to test it.

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Apple iPhone 3.0 Massive News Roundup!

While we’ll be back to let you know when Apple posts the video stream of the event later today, here’s a roundup of posts we have up thus far. Yes, it’s been quite a day for the iPhone, for TiPb, and for our awesome community — thanks everyone!

• iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Event Live Meta-Blog
• Apple iPhone 3.0 Preview = Every iPhone Fanboy’s Wishlist! Copy/Paste, Turn-by-Turn, MMS, Push Notification, Notes Sync, Stereo Bluetooth, Landscape Keyboard, P2P, Subscriptions, More!
• iPhone OS 3.0: What Didn’t We Get? Video! Push Gmail! Flash! Improved Notifications! Background Multitasking! Palm Pre Features! More
• Apple Announces Copy and Paste for iPhone 3.0
• iPhone 3G to Support MMS, Original iPhone Won’t
• iPhone 3.0 to get Spotlight Device Search
• What’s new with Bluetooth in iPhone 3.0?
• iPhone OS 3.0 SDK Beta: 1000 New APIs! Maps! iPod! P2P! iPod Access! Dock Access! More!
• Turn by Turn Apps Coming to iPhone 3.0 App Store
• Apple Announces (Again) Push Notification Services for iPhone 3.0
• Apple’s Mobile OS X Now On 30 Million Devices! 17 Million iPhones, 13 Million iPod touch
• iPod Touch (2nd Gen) DOES Have Bluetooth, Gets iPhone 3.0 for $10

Make sure you hit up TiPb’s iPhone Forums as well, we have tons of great threads, and even more amazing community members to talk iPhone 3.0 with… while we all wait breathlessly for “summer”

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Apple iPhone 3.0 Massive News Roundup!