The mobile phone company O2 in United Kingdom is not treating its best customers, the iPhone 3G already owners like it should. The cut the story short, if you want an iPhone 3GS, it’s around £440!!!
If somebody from O2 is reading this, believe me, you will have a lot of angry customers who took the iPhone 3G 1 year ago for free after an upgrade from the iPhone 2G, and usually with an 18 months contract. So for existing O2 clients, it costs a fortune to get the beloved mobile device.
This update contains over 100 new features, including the following:
• Cut, Copy & Paste with shake to undo
• Landscape keyboard in key applications
• Enhanced Messages application
- Send and receive photos, contacts, audio files, and location via MMS*
- Forward and delete single or multiple messages
• Added search feature in Mail, Calendar, Notes and iPod
• Spotlight search across iPhone
• Support for CalDAV and subscriptions in Calendar
• Improvements to Safari
- Performance
- HTML 5 support
- HTTP Streaming audio and video
- Auto-fill usernames and passwords
• New Voice Memos application
• Sync Notes with a Mac or PC via iTunes
• Internet Tethering over USB and Bluetooth*
• Browse and download movies, TV shows, and audiobooks from the iTunes Store**
• Stereo Bluetooth***
• Wi-Fi auto login
• Enhanced Stocks application
• More Parental Control options for Apps, Music, Movies and TV Shows
• iTunes account creation and login**
• YouTube account login and access to subscriptions, ratings and favorites**
• Shake to shuffle
• New languages, dictionaries, and keyboards
• Find my iPhone and Remote Wipe via MobileMe (subscription required)**
• Support for more Exchange policies
• Create and send Exchange meeting invitations
• Search mail on server (Exchange Server 2007 and supported IMAP servers)
• Search LDAP company directory
• VPN on demand and VPN proxy support
• Encrypted configuration profiles
• Encrypted iTunes backups
• 1,000 new developer APIs, including:
- In App Purchases
- Apple Push Notification Service
- Accessories support
- Peer to Peer Connectivity
- Embedded Maps
- iPod Library Access
• Bug fixes
Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 3G S
* Compatible only with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S and requires support from your wireless provider.
** Not available in all regions or in all languages.
*** Compatible only with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S.
Finally we’ve got a new phone from Apple, with great new features, here is a snapshot:
- 3 Megapixels camera with video recording and editing
- Voice control
- Compass
- Better autonomy
- Copy paste of course with the 3.0 Firmware (available for download on the 17th June)
- MMS
- Search in all applications centralized
- iPhone as a modem, finally…
- Find my iPhone, in case it is lost or stolen (could be useful)
- Buy or rent movies straight on the iPhone, not for me…
- TomTom incar navigation, good good news
A lot of questions for today’s big WWDC keynote in San Francisco. Let’s hope it’s a yes for both of them, I really like Steve Jobs presenting new products.
Tim O’Reilly, one of the biggest author and publisher of technology books has written a book on Twitter, it is worth noting because Twitter is becoming a big way of communicating while on your iPhone and the Twitter iPhone apps have a great success with it. So go and check The Twitter Book.
I’ve been waiting for Skype on iPhone for at least a year… I’m a Truphone user, but I’m not happy with it, it doesn’t work very well in terms of call quality. I hope the official version would be as good as the desktop application.
I’ve just discovered this nice Blog talking about the french island: Corsica situated in the Mediterranean Sea. The nice thing is you can see it on your iPhone, with redimensioned images while you visit the island. There is an interesting post about the Wifi you can get for free or nearly free with Fon in Corsica here.
The show was really good, a lot of very good new features in that OS 3.0 for our preferred phone. Copy/Paste and MMS are nearly ready for us and a lot of APIs for the developers to build new very cool applications.
Also, Bluetooth will be better used by the iPhone, so it was not a hardware issue but a software problem to use stereo headset, and communicate with other devices via Bluetooth.
The only problem, we need to wait until this summer to test it.
