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iPhone 3.0 Summary

Posted March 17, 2009 12:32 PM by Jovan Washington
Categories: Announcements Apple 

There were quite a few updates for iPhone 3.0 which is amazing. I didn’t expect such a significant update because after all, this is Apple. So, let’s see what is coming to our iPhones “this summer:”


+Peer-to-peer connectivity over Bluetooth for gaming and other uses
+Paid apps will have the potential to be subscription fee-based, and can include optional paid content that can be bought from right inside the app. An in-store if you will
+Developers can now build apps for turn-by-turn
+Developers can connect with hardware accessories over in their apps now, such as a blood pressure monitor and the other demoes that they talked about. Its neat
+Push functionality at last!!
+Developers can add streaming video and audio to their apps via push
+Cut, copy and paste. At last! Implementation of this is brilliant.
+MMS, at last!
+A2DP stereo Bluetooth, which some people really wanted as well
+Spotlight has been added to a new home screen page to the left of existing pages, allowing for universal search on the phone.
+A new app called Voice Memos which lets you record notes and reminders.
+Landscape keyboard available in all major apps.
+Apple’s major apps have all been expanded with search functionality.


There are so many more updates! We’ll be sure to break each major addition down as news gets to us. A developers beta is available now, however, the rest of us wont see iPhone 3.0 until this summer.

Stay tuned…

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  1. Flash? Flash! Flash.

    Posted by Charles Jannace on March 17, 2009 3:16 PM

  2. I was kind of hoping for flash too…

    Posted by Jovan Washington on March 17, 2009 3:20 PM

  3. With all of these improvements to the OS, what is the new hardware that iPhone 3 run on?

    Posted by RB on March 17, 2009 5:58 PM

  4. @RB, iPhone 3.0 will run fully on iPhone 3G. Not all features will be available in original iPhones, or iPod touch. But that’s to be expected since they already don’t have all the hardware features.

    Posted by Chris Howard on March 17, 2009 6:09 PM

  5. I’m speechless about this update. I can’t believe it’s got so much in it. It’s like waking up on Christmas and not just getting the new bike, but almost every present you asked for and then some.

    And it’s all free to iPhone users and $9.95 to touch owners!

    If this is Apple sans Steve, enjoy your retirement, Steve!

    Posted by Chris Howard on March 17, 2009 6:11 PM

  6. I’m just watching the video. Is the audience dead???? Not even a murmur when Forstall announced MMS, Turn-by-turn or Push notifications.

    Posted by Chris Howard on March 17, 2009 6:14 PM

  7. I noticed that myself. Crazy huh? I guess it is something they all expected in the beginning and now that it is finally here, they are thinking “its about time.”

    Posted by Jovan Washington on March 17, 2009 8:58 PM

  8. oops! I was wrong about MMS, altho, still no wild cheering which it should have got.

    I tell ya - those Smule guys playing their iPhones, they were the stand out of the whole event. Which is a big statement considering all the great announcements.

    Posted by Chris Howard on March 17, 2009 9:16 PM

  9. Apple formerly sold the headphone-jack iPod AV Cable as a standalone $20 cable or as part of the $99 iPod AV Kit that also included a Dock, power adapter, and remote. Alternatively, third party cables could extract composite video either from the headphone jack or the Dock Connector. With the removal of composite video from the headphone jack of all 2007 iPhones and iPods (a move explained below), Apple now sells two cable packages, both of which use the iPods’ Dock Connector:Composite AV CableComponent AV Cable..The new cables are longer, and rather than providing three short leads that split off for stereo audio and video like the old iPod AV Cable (below, right side), the new cables split in three directions: USB, video, and stereo audio jacks (below, left side). This is an improvement in that it allows the cable to be used in applications where the video jack isn’t right next to the audio jacks, such as would be the case if you wanted to plug the video directly into the TV but route the audio into a stereo receiver more than a few inches away. This design also results in a longer and more complex cable. The component version of the new cable kit is identical apart from having three video plugs rather than just the one on the composite cable pictured below.Each package includes the audio/video cable with an integrated USB connector (above) and a wall adapter for powering the connected device while using it for video output. This is useful because playing video requires enough processing power to drain the battery rapidly. Because the cable plugs into the Dock Connector, it is essential to build USB into the cable because otherwise there’d be no way to charge it while using it for video; the old headphone cable could optionally be used alongside a USB to Dock Connector cable for power…!!!!

    Posted by Condos Toronto on March 20, 2009 4:57 AM

  10. After Apple introduced the video output changes on new iPods this year, but before it delivered the actual cables, there was a spark of a protest over the use of “authentication chips” to regulate which video output accessories the latest iPods would work with. In reality, those fears of “cable lock down” were invented by conjecture and Toronto condo simply wrong: there is no controlling chip to worry about. As it turns out, the simplest conspiracy theory is not always the most accurate.The original two generations of iPods—starting in 2001—used a FireWire connector for both charging and syncing, and a standard headphone jack for audio output. In 2003, Apple introduced the third generation iPods with a new “Dock Connector,” a 30-pin plug built by JAE that supplied all the pins of a Firewire port, a USB port, and stereo audio input and outputs in one package.
            It also has pins that supply output power to an accessory, a sense line to identify the accessory that’s plugged in, and serial port pins that enable simple devices to provide remote control and display features, such as showing the currently playing track and remotely navigate songs. These features are used in car integration kits and some other devices that interact with the iPods.The Dock Connector enabled the 3G iPods to work with either type of data cable, which was handy because most PCs lacked FireWire ports, but did have USB. Modern iPods only use FireWire to charge the battery; they lack the electronics to perform a data sync over FireWire, a cost saving measure that seems like a reasonable tradeoff now that all recent Macs have USB 2.0. Apple also left some empty unused pins open, reserved for future uses on new models. When the iPod Photo arrived in 2004 as a high-end version of the 4G “clickwheel” iPod, it featured the first color display on an iPod and new photo features. Additionally, it could also play photo slideshows out to a TV using some previously reserved pins on the Dock connector, or using the iPod AV Cable plugged into the headphone jack.

    Posted by Condos Toronto on March 20, 2009 4:59 AM

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