Apple and AT&T have been making preparations for the launch of iPhone firmware 3.0. Here is a compilation of the changes and preparations that have been noted:
- The new MobileMe “Find My iPhone” feature has been live this past week.
- Push Notification support is beginning to appear in the App Store. Tap Tap Revenge [App Store] specifically has been updated to provide push notifications.
- The iPhone 3G S Firmware 3.0 has already appeared on Apple’s servers. This firmware is specifically for the new iPhone 3G S (iPhone2,1) so is not recommended to be installed on older iPhones.
- AT&T has posted a FAQ (PDF) about the iPhone 3G S and comments on MMS and tethering:
Later this summer, as part of the 3.0 software, AT&T will make multimedia messaging (MMS) available at no extra cost to customers with a text messaging bundle. And, in the future, AT&T will offer tethering capability for iPhone 3G S and iPhone 3G.
- The iPhone 3.0 re-download charging message has been removed and was a bug according to AppAdvice. Re-downloading apps in 3.0 should be the same as the current firmware ( which means free).
- A couple of YouTube videos have appeared walking through the features of the new iPhone 3.0 operating system.Video 1, Video 2.
The iPhone 3.0 firmware is officially launching on June 17th.
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I’ve been using the 3.0 GM Seed for some days and it’s worth the upgrade even not being jailbroken yet. I also started a new mobile me account to test find my iPhone and discovered that if someone goes to settings and delete the account from the maiL accounts, you lose your ability to either find or erase your iPhone, and since the only way I would feel safe is putting a password, and I can setup automatic wipe on the 10th error, why would I pay 100$ for this?
Apple really made a mistake here.
But the copy/paste feature beats it all, this comment you’re reading was intended to be posted by my iPhone but I had a connection problem, I then copied it, mailed to me and sent from my PC, all thanks to copy/paste! hehe
I have posted a gallery of screenshots taken with a iphone 2g running the 3.0 update
does anyone see better battery life or camera quality ?
http://www.fonearena.com/blog/2009/06/16/apple-iphone-30-software-update-screenshots-and-camera-samples.html