Published: Thursday 18th June, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Products: iPhone 3G
Companies: Apple (All Apple content)
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email to a friendIf UK pricing has put you off the idea of upgrading to Apple's shiny new iPhone 3GS, the next best thing is now available for existing iPhone handsets in the form of iPhone OS 3.0 - a software update that brings long-awaited functionality to Apple's wildly-popular device.
The update, available free of charge to iPhone users and $9.99 for the iPod Touch crowd, can now be downloaded via Apple iTunes and introduces a number of new features including cut, copy and paste, a landscape keyboard and MMS messaging with certain mobile carriers - though, readers should note that MMS won't be supported on first-generation iPhones.
Elsewhere, Apple's introduced an improved calendar and an all-new Spotlight Search that allows users to rummage multiple applications from one place.
To find out more about the update, including how to get your hands on it, head on over to Apple.com.Copyright © 1998 - 2009, HEXUS.net. All rights reserved. Terms, conditions and privacy information.
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Bit of an Apple fan bout aren't you...
Can't clearly see the iphone is not a good phone and there are better out there. Bet you think ipod are also the best things to hit the shelves.... Bless
iphone and apple are for poeple who can pay for designer stuff and don't care about praticality. Looks and the ability to say I owe apple is more important than to say 'mine can do that'
Clearly, you also think that your skewed view is the only one that matters. I think your post suggests you have as much bias against apple as the poster has for.Quote
The original iPhone can't do video capture or MMS properly. The third-party 'video' apps that are available just operate the camera's shutter as quickly as possible, since the hardware isn't capable of proper video. Same with MMS - its radio isn't capable of sending MMS messages according to standards.
So much wrong with the above staements its not funny ... :surprised:
MMS is just software, and has now been added.
as for the "shutter" - pause to think how the live camera preview works....
Phones have had web browsers for a long time - so why do the networks say that iPhone users use the internet a lot more than users of other phones?
..something to do with the unlimited browsing offered on all iphone contracts?
As for the update, the full phone search feature is the best, resembling something my nokia communicator had:
it searches contacts, notes, email content for keywords as you type them
(press the home button on the home screen).
That's something I'm using all the time already.Quote
MMS is just software, and has now been added.
After a little more reading (http://www.maclife.com/article/news/truth_behind_mms_original_iphone), it seems that you're right. The original iPhone could technically support MMS. I guess this is profiteering on Apple's part.
As for the live camera preview - it's a reasonable point, but I certainly wouldn't be satisified with 'video' quality on par with what you get from the camera preview. It's blurred and the frame rate's rubbish.
Bit of an Apple fan bout aren't you...
Can't clearly see the iphone is not a good phone and there are better out there. Bet you think ipod are also the best things to hit the shelves.... Bless
Perhaps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem), instead of accusing me of being a fanboy, you would like to substantiate your argument with some evidence instead of puerile put-downs? Thing is - I can't see that the iPhone isn't a good phone. You'll have to enlighten me! Why?
PS. I had an iPod. It broke.Quote
Charging £5.99 for an OS update is a joke on my iPod Touch.
Especially the part about finally being able to use the built-in bluetooth, it isnt like they added more hardware or a bluetooth adaptor, it was already there but they just didnt turn it on, then a year later charging £6 for you to use it is like robbery. (angry face)
http://www.apple.com/uk/ipodtouch/softwareupdate.html
Well if the experience with my 1st Gen Touch is anything to go by, then I'd give the v3.0 firmware upgrade a very wide berth. I bought it, downloaded it and ended up with a bricked iPod when I applied it. :censored:
Luckily - after wasting a heck of a lot of time trying to get it back - I managed to find an earlier restore point on my main iTunes host and was able to use that to get it back to a usable state. :)
Heck, I even tried booking an appointment with a "Genius" at the local Apple Store, only to be told that there were no appointments available - fat lot of good then! :telephone:
I even retried the download and update - but ended up having to use my earlier restore point again, when the iPod got bricked again (and this isn't a jailbroken iPod or anything else non-standard). So don't ask me to say anything polite about Apple at the moment...
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