News tagged ‘iPhone OS’

News from DevTeam:

iPhone 3.0 OS is jailbreakable on all devices. It’s just those using 3G yellowsn0w that have to show some restraint and wait for PwnageTool to create a custom IPSW that avoids the baseband update. If you are using yellowsn0w, do not update or restore to iPhone 3.0 firmware.  You will lose yellowsn0w and find yourself unable to revert the baseband to get it back.

This video shows almost all new features of iPhone OS 3.0 on a regular iPhone 3G:

A new version of the YouTube app due in iPhone 3.0 will let you log into your account and see subscriptions, playlists, and history. Below is also a photo of the iPhone's general preference pane thrown in for good measure. There are reportedly few changes in the settings.

via appleinsider

A new version of Apple's Camera app shows you the last photo you snapped in the lower left-hand corner of the application. Meanwhile, the new Photo album app allows you to copy, delete, or share multiple photos via email.

via appleinsider

Among the apps gaining true landscape mode with a landscape keyboard are Mail, Stocks, Notes, and Messages:

Read the rest of this entry »

Spotlight search is accessible by flicking the iPhone's home screen to the right (as if there was a home screen to the left). In addition to serving as a global search app, it can also act as a quick application launcher.

Read the rest of this entry »

Apple's new Voice Memo application lets you record voice memos for yourself, which can then be trimmed and sent to friends, family, or coworkers via email of MMS.

Read the rest of this entry »

One cool feature of Apple's new MMS "Messages" app is the ability to send messages in the background, which lets you type out your second message while you're waiting for the first to send. It's quite helpful when sending very large media messages:

via appleinsider

Copy and paste in iPhone OS 3.0 works across all applications. Let's take a look at some screenshots to see how it really looks like.

Read the rest of this entry »

Sportlight allows users to search for special email message, app, contact, notes, music and other data.

Scott Forstall, Apple's senior vice president, demonstrates text and images copy/paste functionality in future iPhone OS 3.0.

Apple has posted the video of iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Event. Watch it here.

Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, shared his thoiughts about upcoming iPhone OS 3.0. The breakdown of unconfirmed rumors:

• cut and paste in 3.0
• no video recording
• no MMS
• no multitasking
• all Palm Pre functionaliity will be added (contradics with previous statement)

The cut and paste functionality will be:

• Users magnify or double tap a word to bring up cut and paste
• Pinch "boundaries" to select word(s); Rose called them "copy boundaries"
• Then you get option to cut, paste or copy

Watch the video:

Engadget has just posted:

"We just got the announcement, iPhone OS 3.0 is coming. Set your clocks, mark your calendars. It's going down March 17th. Apparently, we'll get a sneak peak at the new OS, as well as a look at a brand new version of the SDK."

The event will take place at 10:00 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesday March 17th in the intimate setting of the Apple Town Hall.