iPhone OS 3.0
Tech Blog — ... Finally, Apple has added the cut and paste function in their iPhone OS 3.0 software. Basically, "when you double-tap over text, you will get a "cut, copy, and paste" bubble dialog." Click here for the live event gallery. 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 it. [via Gizmodo - Engadget] ...

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 ...

iPhone 3.0 Firmware gets previewed Today
I4U News — ... today as well in addition to a premium App Store. Several sites will offer live blogging from today's Apple event starting at 10am PCT. We will be following the event on these sites: Engadget ...

Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event gets started
PR News: — ... show. Once in their seats everyone seems to be expecting the same thing , and that’s not surprising. The presentation starts and the lights start dimming. The event starts with Greg Joswiak saying they will be showing some future plans, but before this he talks about the iPhone being in over 80 countries. We will be updating you as the news comes in, just keep an eye on our Apple news section , join our feed or view the live blog on Engadget via the source link below. Source: Read Sign up to our Newsletter for updates or select a news feed CLICK HERE ...

Apple Revises Applications and Apps Store Functions
Phone Scoop - Latest News — ... FM tuners that will interact with the device itself. Apple also said that it will allow developers to build Google Maps directly into their own applications, and will enable turn-by-turn directions. Apple said that it is finally bringing push notification to iPhone OS. Apple said that it had to re-work how its background processes work to better manage battery life. Apple is adding a new API that will support audio and video streaming to the iPhone, as well as in-game voice support. more info at Engadget ...

Apple introduces more ways to spend money on your iPhone
DVICE Atom Feed — ... iPhone's software development kit (SDK). Now app designers will be able to charge you money while you're using an app instead of just when you buy it. For example, you might be able to get Levels 1 to 10 of a game when you first get it from the App Store, but then it'll prompt you to cough up more cash if you want to see Levels 11 and above. Free apps won't be able to do this, though. Anyone else totallycompletelyhugely excited to spend more money on their iPhone? Via Engadget

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 ...

iPhone OS 3
dailywireless.org — Apple is planning taking the wraps off a new version of software for its iPhone today, iPhone OS 3.0. Gizmodo and Engadget have live feeds. ...

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. Source ...

MMS finally comes to Apple's iPhone via OS 3.0
Engadget Mobile — ... strictly with SMS. During the keynote, Apple was pretty remarkably short with details, simply noting that MMS "support" would be added. Frankly, we don't expect anything mind-blowing; it'll probably look a lot like the current SMS setup, and it'll definitely make AT&T happy when you start firing away picture messages without first subscribing to an unlimited messaging plan. ...

Apple Introduces More Ways for iPhone Developers to Make Money
Mashable! — ... As for heavily requested end-user features like copy-and-paste and multi-tasking, as of 10:38PT, these features have not been announced according to Engadget, who is liveblogging the event. ...

Watch iPhone 3.0 go down live on Engadget!
Engadget Mobile — ... We're in Cupertino liveblogging Apple's iPhone 3.0 announcement -- join in the phone, won't you? Watch iPhone 3.0 go down live on Engadget! originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of ...

Apple Announces New iPhone Features
Phone Scoop - Latest News — ... select text, and also showed that if you shake the phone (i.e., useing the accelerometer), it will unselect what users have selected. Apple also said that it will now support the QWERTY keyboard in all applications when in landscape mode, and not just the browser. Users will now be able to attach more than one image at a time to emails, and the iPhone now supports MMS. The iPhone will now be able to record voice memos, as well as conduct searches within all applications on the device. more info at Engadget ...

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. Source ...

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. Source ...

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 Update Thoughts
Paul Colligan's Profitable Podcasting — ... The iPhone has done amazing things for new media. They’re updating it to 3.0. Here are my thoughts as seen through the lens of Engadget and ...

iPhone to support paid DLC, peer-to-peer connections
Joystiq — The iPhone OS 3.0 preview event has already revealed two new developments that are going to change iPhone gaming: the ability for developers to sell downloadable content from within an app, and a peer-to-peer capability. According to Engadget's liveblog of the event (which you should be refreshing obsessively), the new In-App Purchase program will allow apps to interface with the iTunes Store from within, using a standard interface to sell DLC. Apple's Scott Forstall clarified that this is for paid apps only: "Free ...

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]
GigaOM Network — ... (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. Source ...

Apple Kindlizes the iPhone, Amazon.com gets sued
The Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog — ... in Amazon.com's Kindle. I wonder if the New York Times and other papers will stop offering free news apps on the iPhone, now that Apple's giving them tools to charge for subscriptions. The 3.0 software upgrade is coming this summer. A few of the features -- including MMS and A2DP Bluetooth -- won't work on the first generation iPhone. The upgrade is also available for the iPod Touch, for $10. This is culled from live blogs from the Cupertino event include Engadget and Eric Savitz. Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Amazon ...

Apple's IPhone 3.0 update to add copy and paste, MMS and wider on-screen keyboard
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... The copy-and-paste addition triggered applause from developers and journalists during an event at Apple this morning to show off the new features. "Applause for a feature that every other device in the world has. Odd," Engadget snarked in its liveblog of the Apple event. ...

Sims iPhone shows off in-game purchasing, personalized music
Joystiq — ... While ex-Joystiqer Ross Miller and Engadget Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky are busy liveblogging Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 preview event in Cupertino, we're here (well, all over) disseminating various gaming-related information you need to know. For ...

Major iPhone upgrade coming this summer
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 — ... Apple (AAPL) unveiled a slew of new features — more than 100 in all — in the third major revision of the iPhone’s basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at its Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for — in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights: Cut, copy and paste across applications So-called “push notification” — for example, of breaking news or sports results ...

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. Source ...

Obligatory iPhone 3.0 post
GMSV — If your interest in all things iPhone is deep and passionate, you’ve already immersed yourself in all the live blogging and wall-to-wall coverage devoted to Apple’s introduction of OS 3.0 today. If you were otherwise distracted by work, family or the smell of spring blossoms, here’s a thoroughly linked capsule version. The list of new features is long and includes a goodly number of items that have been on customer wish lists for a while: copy and paste , finally; multimedia messaging ; support for Push ...

iPhone 3.0 adds custom protocol support for addons
Hack a Day — ... OS will support application communication over bluetooth or through the dock connector using standard or custom protocols. From Engadget’s coverage: ...

Will you pay for Apple iPhone game subscriptions?
PR News: — ... (AAPL) covered a number of new features for the iPhone, one of those was called Say Prompts. This new feature will allow you to purchase a game with 10 levels; once you have completed the game you can just tap to update the game with another 10 levels, for a cost of course. This new feature will work with Apple’s iTunes Store, when you tap the screen to purchase the update, this will bring up the standard iTunes authentication panel. Will you pay for Apple iPhone game subscriptions? Source via ...

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 details iPhone OS 3.0 update
TechSpot — Apple today provided a sneak peek at the new features coming to the iPhone this summer with the next major software update, among which is included the long overdue cut and paste functionality. But there is much more to the iPhone 3.0 update, for both consumers and developers, enough to keep competitors on their toes. [image] Among the key user oriented improvements, for instance, is landscape orientation. This was already available in Safari, but starting from 3.0, users will be able to flip their phone sideways to type using a larger keyboard in Mail, Notes, SMS and more. ...

LiveFire: Online FPS with voice chat coming to iPhone
Joystiq — ... Former EA Los Angeles studio director Neil Young (not that Neil Young) was on hand at today's iPhone OS 3.0 debut to show off upcoming games from his new venture, ngmoco. The company has already delivered a series of highly regarded iPhone titles, ...

Capitalism, Apple Style
Bits — ... coming this summer: “Free apps remain free,” said Scott Forstall, Apple’s senior vice president for iPhone software, as transcribed by the Engadget live blog of the event. That statement came in one section in which Mr. Forstall described new ways for iPhone app developers to sell their wares from within their applications. If you sell a game with say ten levels in it, the game can offer another 10 levels for a set price. Apple, of course, handles the transaction, taking its normal 30 percent cut. Apple also will allow developers for the first time to sell applications as ...

iPhone OS 3.0: Enterprise Angle Is in the Details
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... new features in the forthcoming Apple iPhone 3.0 software release—such as the Spotlight search and push notifications--a lot of what would be interesting to an enterprise audience went unaddressed in Apple’s March 17 premiere event. But there does appear to be much more under the covers that will be worthy of investigation and exploration as we approach the software’s expected June release. I wasn’t at the event in Cupertino, Calif., instead taking in the proceedings via Engadget’s live blog . In particular, ...

iPhone 3.0 OS channels Xbox Live (plus cut & paste)
Zatz Not Funny! — Like many of my fellow geeks, I set aside time today to follow Apple’s iPhone 3.0 OS briefing. Former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block retains his title as the live blogging king, and I monitored his coverage on gdgt.com. (I also swiped a few pics for this post, as you can see.) The first half of Apple’s presentation was geared towards developers and hardware partners, introducing support for new payment and device connectivity options. Both of which had me drawing comparisons to Xbox Live. ...

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.” Source ...

USB tethering, Publish Video and Find my iPhone found in OS 3.0
Engadget Mobile — ... that'd be the envy of Orwell himself -- hey, that'd be pretty useful if you accidentally left the mobile in a taxi. Also in the MobileMe section, it now says Publish Video when you go to publish an image. It's an odd typo, to be sure, and while video recording has been near the top of our wishlist for some time, we're not about to get our hopes up. Finally, Mac Rumors is reporting that a hacker has dug up and successfully activated the USB tethering capabilities. Apple's Scott Forstall had mentioned the devs were building it in, but were still in talks with the ...

Rumor: Audiosurf soon surfing onto iPhone
Joystiq — ... Apple's recent preview of the iPhone OS 3.0 didn't really contain any savory tidbits for mobile gaming enthusiasts, save for one intriguing new feature -- the new model will ...

O2 and Vodafone relatively mum on future iPhone tethering
Engadget Mobile — ... At Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 preview event last Tuesday, Sir Scott explained that it was "working with carriers around the world" to build ...

Apple may (or may not) be mulling background apps for the iPhone
Engadget Mobile — ... and 3.0 have gone a long way toward addressing some of the iPhone's well-publicized shortcomings -- clipboard support, MMS, better orientation change support, notifications, the list goes on -- but one biggie that Apple has so far refused to take out of the penalty box is background app support. ...

5 O’Clock Roundup: Gmail push for dummies, 3Com for smarties, Trollim for trolls
VentureBeat — How much will Gmail’s push feature eat your iPhone’s battery? — ReadWriteWeb writer Frederic did the fact-hunting for me and found that Apple’s official estimate is 20%. It was on Engadget, so it must be almost true! 3Com reports a 91% drop in earnings, but It’s Complicated – The Wall Street Journal explains 3Com’s year-to-year drop “in the absence of a litigation gain it recorded a year earlier and as demand remained weak for networking equipment.” Maybe all you ...

Multifl0w project teaches Apple a thing or two about iPhone multitasking
Engadget Mobile — ... Though it's relented on MMS and copy / paste, Apple has stubbornly, steadfastly continued to hold the line on the multitasking issue throughout the iPhone's two and a half-year career. Though it has a point about traditional multitasking burning through power, competing smartphone platforms -- scratch that, every competing platform -- has proven that it's still plenty possible to get a full days' life out of a battery while running a full host of apps in the background. Of course, the jailbroken iPhone community knows this full well, which is why there are a number of ...