With WWDC 2009 only two weeks away, the many rumors and leaks and informed guesses seem to have coalesced into a somewhat unified view of what we probably will — and probably won’t — see if/when the next generation iPhone 2,1 is announced. Given the full version upgrade number (the original iPhone 2G is 1,1, the iPhone 3G is 1,2) we’d expect there to be more in the way of hardware changes than we saw last year with the addition of “just” 3G and GPS. Will those expectations be met? We have a pretty good handle on the iPhone 3.0 software, but what about the hardware?
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Rather than split todays updates into a separate post, we’ve gone back and added them to yesterday’s Massive iPhone 3.0 New Roundup so you still have a single stop for all your iPhone 3.0 updates. New stuff will tend towards the bottom, though we put today’s iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 gallery closer to the top.
Enjoy!
So Apple previewed iPhone OS 3.0 today, and made the first beta available for developers, but it won’t be released for us users until “summer” 2009 (we’re guessing June or July). No new hardware was announced (we’re guessing WWDC in June for that too!), but boy-oh-boy were there a lot of software announcements. Here’s a roundup of posts we have up thus far. Yes, it’s been quite a day for the iPhone, for TiPb, and for our awesome community — thanks everyone!
- iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Event Live Meta-Blog
- Apple Posts iPhone OS 3.0 Preview Event Streaming Video
- iPhone 3.0 Beta 1 Screenshot Gallery
- Apple iPhone 3.0 Preview = Every iPhone Fanboy’s Wishlist! Copy/Paste, Turn-by-Turn, MMS, Push Notification, Notes Sync, Stereo Bluetooth, Landscape Keyboard, P2P, Subscriptions, More!
- iPhone OS 3.0: What Didn’t We Get? Video! Push Gmail! Flash! Improved Notifications! Background Multitasking! Palm Pre Features! More
- Apple Announces Copy and Paste for iPhone 3.0
- iPhone 3G to Support MMS, Original iPhone Won’t
- iPhone 3.0 to get Spotlight Device Search
- What’s new with Bluetooth in iPhone 3.0?
- iPhone OS 3.0 SDK Beta: 1000 New APIs! Maps! iPod! P2P! iPod Access! Dock Access! More!
- Turn by Turn Apps Coming to iPhone 3.0 App Store
- Apple Announces (Again) Push Notification Services for iPhone 3.0
- Apple’s Mobile OS X Now On 30 Million Devices! 17 Million iPhones, 13 Million iPod touch
- iPod Touch (2nd Gen) DOES Have Bluetooth, Gets iPhone 3.0 for $10
- iPhone 3.0: Apple Creates new Voice Memos App
- iPhone OS 3.0: Stocks Widget Gets Updated
- iPhone 3.0: MobileMe has “Find My iPhone” Setting?
- iPhone OS 3.0: Stocks Widget Gets Updated
- iPhone 3.0: Apple Creates new Voice Memos App
- iPhone 3.0: Double-Click and Type to Search! New Home Option for Camera and Spotlight
- iPhone 3.0: Mobile Safari to get Anti-Phishing, Auto Fill
- iPhone 3.0: Still a Reason to Jailbreak?
- iPhone 3.0: Tethering Enabled
Make sure you hit up TiPb’s iPhone Forums as well, we have tons of great threads, and even more amazing community members to talk iPhone 3.0 with… while we all wait breathlessly for “summer”
We’re just under 24 hours away from when — we presume — Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall (and maybe Tim Cook?) will take the stage at Apple HQ and preview iPhone OS 3.0 and the new SDK. We’ll be meta-live blogging it, of course, tomorrow at 1pm EDT/10am PDT, so be sure to join us for the TiPb take on things as they unfold. In the meantime, here are the current rumors, broken down by functionality… after the break!
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