After much fanfare, Apple has finally released its long-awaited iPhone and iPod touch 3.0 Software Update. Note, that this release of the firmware, Build 7A341, is exactly the same as the pirate 3.0 Gold Master build. If you previously downloaded the pirated GM build, you’ve had the real 3.0 a week before everyone else, and [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Some time-triangulation (which I shall not go into) has shown that Apple is expected to release its heavily anticipated iPhone 3.0 firmware at 10 am PT/1 pm ET. For those waiting at the edge of their chairs, here’s a cool little way of checking whether the firmware has been updated on Apple’s servers. 1) Fire up [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Apple has just released Build 7A280f of its iPhone OS 3.0 Beta, called Beta 3. Along with that, an accompanying new SDK was also released, sporting a number of changes to various components, including Xcode, Interface Builder, and Dashcode, and notes that applications targeting pre-OS 3.0 devices are unable to be tested on the latest beta. What’s [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 23, 2009
Apple this weekend appears to have discontinued its iPhone Bluetooth Headset, a possible sign that the company could be planning to introduce an updated model alongside new iPhones a bit later this year. A couple of eagle-eyed readers drew our attention to the accessory’s Apple Store product page that has listed the device as “Discontinued” since [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Towards the end of yesterday’s iPhone event, Greg Joswiak notes that whilst iPhone OS 3.0 will be arriving this fall to both the iPhone 3G and the original iPhone, not all of the new spankin’ features will be available to the users of the old iPhone. This includes the MMS service and stereo bluetooth: what [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
From TUAW: Some of the biggest updates to iPhone 3.0 include: Push notifications will be standard in iPhone 3.0. Apple claims that there was a scaling issue when they first announced this feature last year, with thousands of developers clamoring to use it, so it had to be delayed. Developers will be able to build message, sound, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Scott Forstall has just announced that Apple is providing up to 1,000 new APIs for iPhone App Store developers. Among these new APIs are prompts that allow users to buy new content related to the app.
Continue reading...Monday, March 16, 2009
Just a quick reminder that the iPhone 3.0 Apple Event is scheduled just around the corner on Tuesday 17th, at 10AM PST / 1PM EST. I will bring the updates as they drop down on us as quickly as I can, only here on TQB. In the meanwhile, let us all just enjoy the 2.0 life: we [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 15, 2009
Kevin Rose from Digg has a respectable reputation when it comes to ruining Apple’s new-product-in-the-pipeline-secrecy with his ridiculously accurate predictions. He now has his sights set on iPhone 3.0, and says that there will is a copy-and-paste function (that the iPhone has so sorely lacked until now), but still no background apps. So let’s take [...]
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