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Apple to Preview iPhone OS 3.0 on March 17
Techtree News Staff, Mar 13, 2009 1253 hrs ISTSneak preview for invite-only media at Cupertino premises
Apple has sent out invitations for a special media event on March 17. As per Ars Technica, Apple will give a sneak preview of the new iPhone OS 3.0 to invite-only media at their Cupertino premises. The preview event will take place at Apple's Town Hall at 10 AM Pacific Standard Time, which would be 10:30 AM (approximately) Indian Standard Time on March 18.
Speculations abound on the web that Apple will introduce much-requested features (by consumers) in the iPhone 3.0 OS. However, it looks like a development build preview version, which might be publicly shown off to developers at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2009.
Last year, at WWDC 2008, Apple had introduced MobileMe with the push notification feature, which was later recalled. However, Apple brought back the push notification feature for MobileMe users.
What's going to be new in the iPhone OS 3.0?
Here's a quick checklist we've prepared from the tons of feature requests and rants that customers have, and the stuff for which Apple has been in the news for.
Adobe Flash
The hide and seek game between Adobe and Apple to bring Flash support to the iPhone is being played since long. Let's hope that Apple finally manages to bring the support with due help and development assistance from Adobe.
MMS Support
Another much-requested feature is the Multimedia Message Service support, since the iPhone is already capable of sending multimedia.
Cut - Paste
Haven't many of you cribbed and ranted about having no cut-paste support on the iPhone ever since the first-generation iPhone was launched? It's about time that Apple provided iPhone and iPod Touch owners with this feature. Otherwise, they might always be on the look out for an option through jailbreak.
Bluetooth
Despite the fact that the new iPhone 3G has Bluetooth working on a limited number of headsets, let them open up the Bluetooth profile to developers and allow the hooking of the iPhone and iPod Touch to Bluetooth car kits.
Background Process
Support for running more than one application at a time. Basically, a multitasking feature that will, however, stress out the CPU of the iPhone, which is capable of running up to 620MHz. On iPod Touch, game developers would be able to make more graphics-heavy games to put the current CPUs clocked at 532MHz to good use.
Bring out the feature requests you'd like to see on the iPhone OS 3.0, apart from better sync with Mac and Windows based machines.
Speculations abound on the web that Apple will introduce much-requested features (by consumers) in the iPhone 3.0 OS. However, it looks like a development build preview version, which might be publicly shown off to developers at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2009.
Last year, at WWDC 2008, Apple had introduced MobileMe with the push notification feature, which was later recalled. However, Apple brought back the push notification feature for MobileMe users.
What's going to be new in the iPhone OS 3.0?
Here's a quick checklist we've prepared from the tons of feature requests and rants that customers have, and the stuff for which Apple has been in the news for.
Adobe Flash
The hide and seek game between Adobe and Apple to bring Flash support to the iPhone is being played since long. Let's hope that Apple finally manages to bring the support with due help and development assistance from Adobe.
MMS Support
Another much-requested feature is the Multimedia Message Service support, since the iPhone is already capable of sending multimedia.
Cut - Paste
Haven't many of you cribbed and ranted about having no cut-paste support on the iPhone ever since the first-generation iPhone was launched? It's about time that Apple provided iPhone and iPod Touch owners with this feature. Otherwise, they might always be on the look out for an option through jailbreak.
Bluetooth
Despite the fact that the new iPhone 3G has Bluetooth working on a limited number of headsets, let them open up the Bluetooth profile to developers and allow the hooking of the iPhone and iPod Touch to Bluetooth car kits.
Background Process
Support for running more than one application at a time. Basically, a multitasking feature that will, however, stress out the CPU of the iPhone, which is capable of running up to 620MHz. On iPod Touch, game developers would be able to make more graphics-heavy games to put the current CPUs clocked at 532MHz to good use.
Bring out the feature requests you'd like to see on the iPhone OS 3.0, apart from better sync with Mac and Windows based machines.
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