Some very exciting iPhone news!!! Apple has issued invitations for a special event on March 17.
Apple is hosting the event to give a sneak preview of iPhone firmware 3.0, the next major upgrade to the iPhone operating system which we had speculated couple of months back.
The event is scheduled to take place at the Town Hall auditorium on the Apple's campus in Cupertino, CA at 10:00 am local time.
Engadget reported:
You can checkout the photo of the invitation below:
Apple had called a similar event in March 2008 where Apple had announced the details of the much awaited iPhone's Software Development Kit.
BGR is claiming that as per their sources, iPhone Firmware 3.0 is expected to have the following features:
- MMS
- Tethering via Bluetooth and USB
We are extremely excited and here are some of the features on our wishlist:
- Copy and Paste (hClipboard and Clippy are worthy solutions available for the jailbroken iPhone).
- Ability to run iPhone apps in the background.
- Better way to manage and launch iPhone apps.
- Ability to try a demo version of an iPhone app before buying it on the App Store.
What's on your wishlist? Please let us know in the comments area.
Thanks to Stephane from iPhoneFreak for the tip.
MMS !!!
MMS !!! finally , bluetooth tethering , would be slow though but still , good improvment from apple.
A2DP audio streaming !
Let's hope the email client gets the much needed search functionality or Gmail app would be even better.
Full Bluetooth Functionality. I got some of it yesterday but i want all of it!
Video Recording and MMS
That's what cycorder is for…MMS finally!!
Ability to use apps like SMS, Email in landscape mode.
copy and paste like a real phone. sheesh.
I need the really simple no-brainers that are present in other smartphones for a long time, but Apple forgot (can you believe this?):
- Ability to invite other people to meetings (isn't there anybody out there at Apple who has to work together in workgroups? Are all these guys there just authistic one-man/woman-shows?)
- Ability to suggest alternative times when receiving meeting invitations
- Ability to schedule meetings from address-book entries (simple "Schedule meeting with …" button in address-record
Bluetooth SAP Please
copy paste is not going to happen.. quit thinking it will.
A more complete SMS app with the ability to forward, save messages as drafts and smileys.
Not to forget copy/paste and landscape mode I mentioned earlier.
Being the skeptic that I am, I call BS on the MMS and Bluetooth tethering info. Apple seems to have gone out of their way to say that they won't be adding anything in either variety for the foreseeable future. Of course I don't mind to be proven wrong, but I just don't see it as very likely. I will be interested to find out what they do preview. My top 5 in no particular order:
1. Push (It was gonna be in firmware 2.1 until the last minute, so either there was a MASSIVE bug, or they're just holding out on us.)
2. Copy/Paste (Come on. It can't be THAT hard)
3. Flash (About as likely as Scarlett Johansson personally hand delivering the new firmware upgrade file.)
4. A PROPER SMS app, more in line with say, oh I don't know, a SMARTPHONE?? I mean surely an iRealSMS equivalent from Apple wouldn't be asking too much would it?
5. Landscape mode for everything, not just Safari and Calculator etc. Apple was toting the accelerometer rotation as the biggest thing since the… well since the announcement of the multi-touch screen a few moments earlier actually. It'd be nice to think I could use the Springboard in landscape as well.
1.Landscape SMS and also tweaks such as deleting individual messages and smileys.
2.Full bluetooth functionality.
That's all I can think of for now. Was it not announced that Apple were getting proper Flash in the iPhone because they didn't like Flash Lite.
flash isnt happenning
3.0 is bound to have some form of plugs that will cause devs a problems, I for one will be waiting for someone to test the holes in the software.
Even if Apple pulled a 'full house' of features, I would want to ensure Cydia and the contained apps remained useable before I upgraded
Ok, full feature Bluetooth would be fine, but to lose the wonders within Cydia for a few apps (that ARE on the way anyway ) I think not!
turn by turn noogle
others not mentioned above:
+ ical subscriptions on the iphone (esp. birthdays)
+ smart contact groups
how about they add the easiest thing… Winterboard. Seriously you can't set a background image!?!? If apple just paid these "hackers" then soon every person would have an iPhone. It's all the small things that add up that still keep people using blackberrys. Cmon.
My wish:
Landscape SMS
let us use jailbreak apps…most of the upgrade probably is already done in one form or another by jailbroken apps. I'd like to see what they can come up with.
Alot of things have already been posted so theres not much for me to say
1) I would love to see the ability to switch between white background black letters and black background and white letters for battery improvement
2) a week/work week(5days) view on the calendar
3) when choosing SMS recipients i would like to see a checkbox beside my contacts, where i can choose all recipients in one go instead of raping the + button and add contacts 1 by 1
4) more volume for the original iphone headset.. becomes pretty silent when youre on the highway driving faster speeds. People you talk with become annoyed by the "what? eh?" all the time which is understandable (is there a cydia solution or some workaround, i would be very thankful)
question from my side… is there an original apple site where you can post suggestions for firmware improvements?
guess thats my 2 cents so far… ill post more as more come to my head
cheers
One thing that nobody has mentioned that I would find very useful is in addition to landscape sms which I would love is the ability to lock the rotation, for example when I'm laying in bed and get a txt I don't get up to respond I type it out while laying sideways, now that would rotate my display and make it impossible to type and if I rotate the screen it will just keep rotating so if they had an option like holding the top right corner while rotating will lock it so that it wont rotate will definitely help, or for like pictures that were taken on a camera sideways they show up on half the screen if you rotate the phone it will then take up the full screen but the image is sideways so you end up rotating your head to see it right, kinda sux when you show a friend, so yea that would be a nice feature that I'm sure if not released by apple can be added as a Cyndia app. Anybody have the same problem?
Yawn.
If MMS and Bluetooth tethering are the main points of this "major" update then it will be a bit of a letdown.
Flash? Java? Forward SMS?
All infinately more important in my book
Apple will prolly add 1 or 2 features. they cant give you everything at once or they would loose out on new sales of future phone generations. A little at a time to get you to buy the next one.
I would love to see a forward camera, I love using my TyTN in Europe for video calls but lets be serious ATT network is nowhere near being able to handle this. Same argument can be made why we prolly wont see push notifications either.
The ability to make a gesture to swipe through apps just like swiping through webpages on safari, rather than having to go home, pick a new app, go home, pick a new app, etc.
Make folders on dashboard to keep apps in, rather than having to swipe 20 screens to get to an app.
Make the dashboard an actual dashboard with widgets rather than just apps. Maybe use an up/down gesture to switch from the apps to widgets.
Voice directions on google maps.
Use MobileMe to be able to stream documents/movies/music from your home computer (orb, but in the actual ipod app).
Ability to make folders in pop accounts in the mail app.
1.proper text i/f as already mentioned
2. Attachments with outgoing emails
3. Ability to synch with my work MS outlook calendar without iTunes. My iphone is my own but I need a simple synch program, as supplied by every other phone manufacturer to pick up my calendar and contacts from work MS outlook where iTunes is not allowed, (not that I would want my iTunes library on a work pc anyway!)
4. More possibilities to organise files and photos
5. A document editor eg for word docs that I get sent
If I am just being dumb and some of these exist already (wthout jail breaking) just tell me (but kindly)
I'd like to see MMS but honestly I haven't been hindered by it being missing at all. If I need to send a pic I can always email it to the person's phone cellphonenumber@mms.att.net.
Video would be great and running apps in the background, copy and paste (of course), flash (not likely), and BlueTooth file transfer.
Kray-Z. Yes this bugs me too!
Great Points… I'll add one more
The ability to dial a phone number that appears in the "Location" field or the body of a calendar entry.
Oh Yeah… How about the ability to enable/disable the out of office notification from the exchange account settings.
I want to see
1. tethering
2. multiple photo deletion within the phone
3. multiple photo deletion from PC without crash
4. full Bluetooth functionality
5. the ability to walk through walls
6. custom background image
How about the ability to skip between tracks whilst ipod is playing by holding down the volume up/down button. Sony-ericsson phones (and probably many others) have been doing this for donkey's years and it's a great feature.
FLASH!!! Pls?!!
Of the 4 major things a iPhone does (Music/Video player, Internet browser, Phone and PIM) it is weakest as a PIM, especially for users of Outlook. Many iPhone users are frustrated in that area and are looking at the Palm Pre which has always had good integration with Outlook.
it needs custom SMS ringtones, but legit not the jailbroken way
Hey Nate,
Yeah the ability to customize the iPhone like you can with Winterboard would be a good one.
Yeah, I have noticed that as well when I am reading something on the iPhone when I am in bed. Its quite irritating, so an easy way to lock the accelerometer would be useful in some scenarios.
Flash support would be cool, but not sure if the solution to it will only be software.
There is quite a bit speculation which suggests that for Flash to work, you would need better hardware so a likely candidate in the next generation iPhone.
Yeah an easier way to switch between iPhone apps would be extremely useful.
I really liked the way Beejive implemented the functionality to switch between chat windows in BeejiveIM. It will be interesting to see how Apple implement it.
Hey Rockefeller,
I am not sure if I got it right, but you can already create custom ringtones using iTunes for an additional fee from a song you already own.
Nothing is on my wishlist as I know that Apple won't give me what Cydia already does!
-Turn by turn GPS
-Landscape SMS
-Forward on SMS
-Copy & Paste
-Wallpaper
-Themes
-App/Icons management (folders/categories)
-Video recording
-View contacts in flow view
-MMS
-Contacts Grouping
-Bluetooth file transfer (& more to come)
-Haptic feedback
-Skype/Fring calls over 3G
-VideoRingtone
…
will it be available to download in iTunes on the 17th?
MMS, full bluetooth, and flash would be nice and forward msg
he means the SMS tones. You can change ringtones, but not the "new SMS" tone to a custom tone. I aggree with him too.
Why not mention ibackgrounder? Because you're a terrible writer? Oh yeah. When are you going to learn "have got" is terrible grammar. Hopefully now.
Dream on. You know this update is going to break everything. That is a given IMO.
maybe they'll announce new features of a new iphone… that would make sense toward the whole future functionality thing. and obviously 3.0 will come out the same time as the third gen iphone. like 2.0 and the 3g.
Google maps that rotate the way your heading at least