The development of iPhone OS 3.0 has been progressing nicely, and approximately a week after beta 4 was released, Apple has churned out a new beta, along with a new version of iTunes 8.2 pre-release. Gizmodo is reporting a few changes in this new beta, despite initial reports that there were only bug fixes.
First and foremost, it is being reported that MMS is no longer available, and the methods used to enable it are now prevented. To add to this, apparently YouTube is now improved, in that it will stream a higher quality video to users on 3G, the same video that was initially reserved for those on WiFi. Lastly, there is changes to the StoreKit and various other fixes.
If you're a member of the Apple Developer program, you can head over to the Developer Center to download the new releases. For the mere mortals, you'll have to sit tight until OS 3.0 is released officially, or perhaps do a favor for a friendly developer.
Aha, yeah; I didn't expect them to have beta 5 out so fast. Perhaps beta 6 next week! Although I doubt it somehow =
Who cares honestly as long as we have MMS in the 3.0 release version? As for me, I'll gladly send SMS/MMS via e-mail. Don't wanna give AT&T money away for something that costs them almost nothing to do it.
that, is insane.
There are ways to develop without a Mac but not official. I really don't understand Apple decision to severely limit the number of developers for their phone. If Apple was as pro developer as Microsoft we would probably have more "useful" apps for the iPhone. There are only a handful off really useful apps right now. Tons of duplicate apps that all do the same thing. And lots of stupid games. I have yet to find a replacement (iPhone or WinMo) for Ultrasoft Money that I had back in the day on my Palm V.
Does Microsoft make development tools for WinMo that run on OS X? Nope, didn't think so. And your complaint about apps applies equally to WinMo (and before you call me a fanboy or otherwise discount my statement, keep in mind that I use a WinMo phone).
You missed the point. They don't need to, that would only bring in a handful of developers which is a waste of time. Apple on the other hand is stifling development by limiting dev to their niche market.
As Steve Balmer says:
"Developers developers developers developers .. .. .. .."
They may be limiting their development potential a little bit, but most of the developers are ones who already knew Cocoa, who already use OS X. I'm happier to see them push out SDK updates on one platform if it means better quality.
The current version is OK, but there's still a fair few bugs. Looking forward to future beta releases
Well I see the option to send and MMS but I just tried to send a picture to myself via MMS and it failed to send. Maybe it is just a provisioning thing on my account. I didn't have MMS on my last WinMo phone and it never bothered me. It was rare that I needed to send a photo and if I did I would just send it via email.
Working for o2 UK anyway but obviously 3.0 and enabled via o2 already.
MMS
APN wap.o2.co.uk
Username vertigo
Password password
MMSC http://mmsc.mms.o2.co.uk:8002
MMS Proxy 193.113.200.195:8080
Can someone explain the impact of no MMS?
Thanks.
When you've got email (and a free data plan) on the phone - MMS seems kind of pointless anyway.
That's why I like my N79 and so does my wife even though she wanted an iPhone initially and now doesn't even want to hear about it. Even to her it's just a stupid phone with shaking menu icons (that's what we were shown by friends of ours that had iPhones... look - you hold the menu briefly and the icons start jiggling... wow - shoot me now please)...
I don't understand why the iPhone 3.0 still has issues with something so primitive and old as MMS. ..............
Have you ever written a phone OS before? If no stop complaining, there are tons of things that could be causing the mms to be giving them problems.
The Apple iPhone is great phone mainly for its interface. It is super simple to use.
So when Apple add new things to it and new services. They have to make them compatible with they slick interface.
So that is where the issue's come in to play. It is easy to get MMS and other things to work. But with Apple everything needs to be smooth and pretty. Hence why copy and paste took so long. MMS is causing issues because there still working on intergrating it properly with there OS.
I pick a phone based on how well it works for me and if I like the interface. I love the interface on the iPhone. It looks nice and it is simple to use. Too me it doesn't matter what phone I use. At the minute I'm using 2 Blackberries, Bold 9000(Work) and a curve something or other(Personal, Iphone 3G broke. I dropped it several million times.) Would love to get my iPhone back, But no point buying one until the new one is released. I just prefer the iPhones OS and interfaces. Like with computers. MAC OSX Or Linux or windows - It doesn't matter to me, I just prefer Windows.
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