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.
reminders – iPhone is missing simple reminders. 1) Calender – abilty to snooze meeting reminders and set recurring reminders until you acknowlege it (like the palm). 2) same feature for SMS alerts, missed calls and voicemails.
Yeah, snoozing meeting reminders for Calendars would be very useful, one of
the reason I don't use Calendar on my iPhone.
turn by turn navigation, or at very least allow 3rd party software vendors to release software that achieves it.
WOOT, Just in Time for my Birthday!!!! I'm born on St. Patrick's Day, I'm Irish, have red hair, and my favorite color is green… which makes me sad that Apple doesn't offer a green version of the iphone. They should give me a custom one, with a four-leaf clover on it. 3G though, so I can finally sell my 2G.
Can't wait to see the new features though. Hopefully they'll include background tasks. Actually, I take that back. If I'm going to hope for anything I'm going to hope for an official version of winterboard. Apple approved theming. Dammit I'm gonna dream big.
Maybe even landscape email and sms, and maybe safari will remember my damn email for passwords!
Ahh, got it. Thanks Nate
Hey Sam,
Apple is hosting the event on 17th is just to give a preview of iPhone firmware 3.0.
I guess it will be released in July like they had done last year with firmware 2.0.
the ability to walk through walls??
You can delete individual messages, by swiping on a message left to right or right to lef (message list screen)
call recording, a basic feature missing in iphone
apple is going to release the firmaware 3.0 on 12, june 2009..oh God cant wait..!!!!!