iPhone 3.0: 100 new features (including copy paste), 1000 new APIs, unlocks iPod Touch 2G Bluetooth

Posted Mar 17, 2009 at 1:16PM by QJ Staff Listed in: News Tags: 2G, App Store, Bluetooth, Digg, iPhone
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 iPhone OS 3.0 Beta Release Provides New SDK, - Image 1 


Apple finally pulled back the curtains on iPhone 3.0, and it looks like Digg's Kevin Rose was spot on and the iPhone is finally getting the copy and paste feature. The new firmware is coming with loads of other new features - too many to mention here, but here are some highlights taken from the press release:
  • Cut, copy and paste
  • MMS
  • landscape view for Mail, Text and Notes
  • stereo Bluetooth
  • syncing Notes to the Mac® and PC
  • shake to shuffle
  • parental controls for TV shows
  • movies and apps from the App Store
  • and automatic login at Wi-Fi hot spots
Devs are also going to be happy with 3.0 since the new SDK will have 1,000 new APIs, including in-app purchases, P2P connections, and access to the iPod music library. This also means homebrewers will have more stuff to play with! Even the iPod Touch 2G is going to benefit: 3.0 will finally unlock the capabilities of its Bluetooth chip.

Via Apple

 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by weirdpeople - 2009-03-17 09:02
» but...

if your an ipod touch user the update wont be free :( it will be $9.95

by jantunes - 2009-03-17 10:27
» but...

I'm an iPod Touch user and the update will be free. Not that my uncle works for Apple, but torrents are my friends.

by YEA - 2009-03-17 10:56
» APPLE

APPLE is gay as fuc*, money greedy bitc*

they're gonna make you pay for an update (i thought updates were posed to be free and dont give me any of that "its worth it" shi*, cause it aint)



and ppl who pay for it are gay as fuc* too


by avatar76 - 2009-03-17 12:13
» No one has confimed it has to be paid for yet

Before you go mouthing off like that stop and consider if what someone has posted here is the truth.

I can see that is possibly could be true, Apple like many companies probably pay someone for libraries to communicate via bluetooth. As up until now bluetooth would have been left disabled in ipod Touches apple would have paid nothing to said company for bluetooth on the iPhone touch. Now if they're going to enable it they will have to pay said company for each person that activates bluetooth on their iPod touch.



Microsoft did a similar thing for mp4 playback on the 360 they pay a company x dollars and/or cents for each perso nthat downloads the "optional" mp4 playback software. The difference is MS planned it that way from the start and you're already paying for that "optional" update when you buy the 360.

For apple unfortunately they've had to change horses mid stream because they realised hey you know what bluetooth isn't dead and people are jailbreaking devices to get things like ibluetooth.

The alternative is just to release a separate firmware update sans bluetooth for ipod touch, but I imagine that wouldn't make people very happy either. I think you'll find apple have done the right thing for all concerned here, $10 isn't alot of money for an individual. Again though has anyone from apple even confirmed that ipod touch users have to pay?

by nightmare - 2009-03-17 12:55
» freeE!

Where is a good site for free torrents?

by nightmare - 2009-03-17 12:57
» Free!

Where is a good site for torrents??

by weirdpeople - 2009-03-17 14:07
» i fairly sure it will be 9.95

because if you look here

http://live.gizmodo.com/page/2/

it clearly says that the update will be 9.95 for ipod touch users

by spiderfan00 - 2009-03-18 02:14
» wow

torrents are free. period.

by Justingraziano - 2009-03-18 12:05
» Stupid Christian

What an idiot, thinks people are homosexual for paying for an update. Unlike Micro***** which steals the money from you (Xbox Live), Apple asks for it for developing a great bit of software plus, Apple is for the rich, not the poor dropouts like youself.

by Justingraziano - 2009-03-18 12:08
» ...

Nice, the only thing I dont approve of is the parental crap. Apple is getting out of hand with ageism ever since Mac OS X Tiger and if I had an iPhone, that would be my excuse to pirate this. Either way, it has some really nice things in it.

by alex - 2009-03-19 09:26
» PUSH!

this article is lacking one REALLY important feature



It will finally have push notifications and meebo will have a specific app made for the iphone.



watch the keynote its really interesting and makes you glad to have an iphone3g

by HunterXyron1134 - 2009-03-26 14:39
» ....

I just hope Apple ports their App store Dev kit to windows. I might actually be able to do something helpful woth thpse new API's.

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