Comments on: Apple iPhone 3.0 OS event March 17th, we got some info

By: tim

tim — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:04:56 +0000

no it wont cost 4 iphone but if there is one for ipod it will.

By: new2iphone

new2iphone — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:23:17 +0000

Now I wished I waited for this iphone 3.0. But I do hope it has mms,video recording,and forwards of text messaging,landscape mode. I kinda like the predictive spelling they have now as compared to other phones. If they have those features then its a go getter.

By: thaipeople

thaipeople — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:41:24 +0000

Thai Keyboard please!

By: CrossHack

CrossHack — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:44:13 +0000

What is the rumor about a new iPhone device coming out?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:39:06 +0000

I really like the Copy and Pasted Java bookmarklet hack, so I don’t care about that, but a search feature for email and web word searches would be a no brainer. I mean, no word search for the mail app is just plain stupid. I have thousands of emails and I don’t have time to scroll through them all to find a specific business email. Lame.

http://www.biocow.com/iCopy/

By: dfd

dfd — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:49:22 +0000

no i think it’ll be free??!!!?? (are you serious?)

By: ddebart2

ddebart2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:53:52 +0000

I wonder if adding mms means upgrade to camera app. Don’t know how sending a 2 mp picture on mms would be

By: again

again — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:24:01 +0000

Well

what I would like to see it’s a DECENT program to navigate…

why the heck it’s not possible to have a tom tom, garmin or similar program in the iphone…

why I have to spend another 100-200 bucks for a navigator, when the iphone have all the HW that it need, and a big screen!?!!!!

Come on!!!!
they can do TONS of money with a navigator program, and selling updated maps via the app store…

this is what really surprise me most…

By: Rembert

Rembert — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:48:23 +0000

I’d immediately pay $50 just for tethering support.

When I’ve done that, I won’t quit telling everyone I had to pay $50 for a feature which should have been an integral part of the 2.0 firmware already.

Anyway, I don’t believe tethering will be included in the 3.0 update – I’ll wait and see.

By: JakeyBoy

JakeyBoy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:06:34 +0000

why are people paying to upgrade their iPod Touch? you can get it for free, and i’m suprised there isn’t more info out there on how this is done(and no, i’m not talking about some sort of jailbraking). i’ve been doing it for every update and never paid on my iPod Touch

And i’ll say it again, Apple is great at stringing along their users…

By: mAESTRO

mAESTRO — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:31:01 +0000

Copy and Paste? You ask why we need copy and paste??? Hello, haven’t any of you surfed a website and needed to copy and paste the info into an email or contact list or how about the DIAL PAD!! For example I’m looking up the phone number of a restaurant: find it, copy and paste, tada!
As everyone mentioned landscape mode is a MUST, my fingers are flat at the tips, well not much of a tip. Secondly how about a Delete “button” in addition to the backspace button.

By: nathan

nathan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:46:22 +0000

What do you really need to copy/paste on an iphone? I can see myself using this maybe once a year.

By: Clintster

Clintster — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:46:15 +0000

How long after the announcement does it usually take Apple to release it?

I can’t wait anymore……!

By: Clintster

Clintster — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:43:55 +0000

Ok, so after reading every post in this article I cannot understand why more people haven’t mentioned landscape keyboarding. It is SO ridiculous that I have to type with my forefinger to send an email or text on my $200.00 phone. COME ON get with the times apple!
As far as copy/paste I’d take it but probably rarely ever use it.
MMS is a must! I’m too embarrased to tell my buddies that my fancy iphone can’t receive their MMS messages.
Tethering, whatever you know that there will be an additional charge, no thanks my at&t bill is already high enough. I’ll keep my broadband.
I’ll take anything that I can get for it, but we’ve got to have the basics!

Clintster out!

By: Gunther23

Gunther23 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:25:42 +0000

Flash please!!! Also on emails, i would like to be able to attach multiple items,pics, or docs. Less apps, more utility like thether.

By: JOHN

JOHN — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:07:35 +0000

Is there any news on what will be offered if anything in terms of improvements for Ipod touch users not, as I know some updates will benefit Ipod touch users but I am wondering whether there would be anything specific for the upod touch user or whether this is something I will have to wait for?

By: Steven Rayback

Steven Rayback — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:13:23 +0000

MMS is very likely, along with tethering and C&P.

Flash is unlikely and the ability to download something right from the internet is almost certainly a no.

What I’m hoping for is a signal in the top menu bar that informs the user if their phone is on silent.

By: Chubby Bear

Chubby Bear — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:53:08 +0000

Seriously. Its sad that it took this long for something I had on my $19 gas station phone.

GG Apple. GG.

By: JJ

JJ — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:10:12 +0000

That statement doesn’t really make any sense. MMS and E-mail really have two different uses and both are convenient under different circumstances. if your argument made sense then wouldnt sms become obsolete too??? well its not b/c it has a different use than e-mail.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:59:18 +0000

Cut and paste yes, but how about multitasking? When can I run Fring in the background? I’m seriously considering jailbreaking to get this. When I’m traveling I need to stay on IM AND read my email, not OR!

By: john

john — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:46:02 +0000

MMS & copy and paste a definate plus. How about the ability to forward a SMS? Change the appearance of widgets? The ability to get rid of unused widgets like the stocks widget? Better camera options (or cam options period!) Is it me? I love my iPhone, but my razr from 7 years ago does things this phone simply does not.. FED UP!

By: powerUser

powerUser — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:46:15 +0000

What about finally implementing a subscription mechanism? Some developers stay away because the technology (aka: costs) of providing their service cannot support unlimited use for life, for a fixed one-time price – not an affordable one, anyway.

If they could charge less up front, but continue generating revenue over time from each user (to support the service) this would open the floodgates for more complex and useful apps, while keeping them affordable.

Advertising in the app is not a solution – the paltry, uncertain returns don’t justify the resources needed to create the app. It would be much better if there was a mechanism so that users could continue to pay for functionality they find useful.

Comments, anyone?

By: Iphone

Iphone — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:01:20 +0000

Keep that piece of crap blackberry who really cares about copy and paste.

By: Punky Purple

Punky Purple — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:00:39 +0000

What’s the big deal about copy/paste? I’ve had my iPhone for a year and a half and I got by without it. Dexterity guys, you have to have those fingers to do the job.

By: Bill rogers

Bill rogers — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:18:16 +0000

Amen brother…They need to work on the basis first, like to forward a test, sending a picture to another phone instead to email where hald the time the passwords don’t work, etc

By: b

Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:08:12 +0000

Why not the following Software features?
-SMS forwarding
-MMS (although i prefer to email pics)
-Bluetooth file transfer (to print photos direct from phone)
-Wireless Sync over WiFi (for handiness sake)
-Copy and Paste (for the odd email)
-Turn by Turn direction in Maps w/voice prompt option.
-Summary homescreen – to show new email/sms/app updates
-Crude photo editing eg: fix orientation of photo (how many times have you had the phone flip a pic in the wrong direction?!)
-Voice Dialing option – similar to Google’s voice search using the accelerometer to activate it

Hardware features for iPhone 3.0
- 3-5 Megapixel Camera
- 16-32Gb Memory
- fm radio (or an apple radio app free as standard)
- increased screen resolution (size is fine)
- thinner phone
- louder loudspeaker

If anything the next iPhone has to have some of the basic features that other Cellphones currently have. A lot of these could be software implemented for the older 2G and 3G iPhones, while a new iPhone 3.0 could add a few exlusive new hardware features…

By: ell

ell — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:45:21 +0000

That is amazing isn’t it. A smart phone without cut and paste? I have the phone and love it, but why it skipped some basics I can not figure out.

By: SG

SG — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:17:22 +0000

3.0 –> thank god !
going to be a looooooooooong week……

By: robert a

robert a — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:36:55 +0000

@PhoneFan33:

“please add a time stamo for every sms that is sent/recieved”…

Well, it does already.

By: Wisecountyguy

Wisecountyguy — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:31:50 +0000

Well I heard alot of complaints about G1 when it came out about no mms, video recorder, flash player among other things. Personally I can’t understand apple charging so much for our iPhones and NOT give us atleast all the functions that any cheap crappy free phone like the razr will do. Come on apple… Keep up