iPhone OS 3.0 is coming, preview on March 17th

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We just got the announcement, iPhone OS 3.0 is coming. Set your clocks, mark your calendars. It's going down March 17th. Apparently, we'll get a sneak peak at the new OS, as well as a look at a brand new version of the SDK. Exciting stuff indeed, and we'll be there live at 10am PST (1pm EST) with the liveblog. Apple's calling this an "advance preview of what we're building," so we're not expecting anything ready to go as of the 17th, but hopefully this will allow developers to start building toward future functionality (hey, how about some push notifications?), and presumably users won't have too many months to wait after that for the real deal.

Source: Engadget

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Bloody hell I bet touch owners have to pay again.

Yep because we don't provide a constant revenue stream with our Touch's because ATT pays royalities to Apple to use have the ability to sell the iPhone for use on their network. So unfrotunately we get stuck to paying for features that the iPhone owners get for free.

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doubt there will be anythingg too innovative....unless they announce the new phone which would be ridiculous.

Why would a new iPhone be rediculous? :blink:

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At last year's March 6 event, they revealed the 2.0 iPhone OS update and announced it would be available in June. Thus, it make sense that the March 17 event will be very similar, including a release date (likely in June.)

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By the way MacRumor members say preview means it might require the latest iPhone (hardware) to meet the new software demands, meaning iPhone revision in June?

That seems highly unlikely. One of the biggest appeals of the iPhone, if not the biggest appeal, is that the firmware is upgradeable, unlike nearly every other mobile phone on the market. To exclude 3.0 from the existing iPhone models would be a terrible move.

It's not like how old iPod firmware updates were only the new models, so the old models only missed out on search and other minor things. This is much different. If Apple excludes old models from 3.0, there would then have to be special 3.0-only applications, etc.

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That seems highly unlikely. One of the biggest appeals of the iPhone, if not the biggest appeal, is that the firmware is upgradeable, unlike nearly every other mobile phone on the market. To exclude 3.0 from the existing iPhone models would be a terrible move.

It's not like how old iPod firmware updates were only the new models, so the old models only missed out on search and other minor things. This is much different. If Apple excludes old models from 3.0, there would then have to be special 3.0-only applications, etc.

They can't support the old ones forever. Gotta have some incentives to upgrade.

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That seems highly unlikely. One of the biggest appeals of the iPhone, if not the biggest appeal, is that the firmware is upgradeable, unlike nearly every other mobile phone on the market. To exclude 3.0 from the existing iPhone models would be a terrible move.

Pretty much every smartphone is upgradeable, my old Orange SPV C600 "Typhoon" was upgraded from WM5 to WM6 then 6 to 6.1 and it will soon be updated to 6.5.

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They can't support the old ones forever. Gotta have some incentives to upgrade.

Yeah, but current iPhone hardware is still more than capable. What kind of update could they come up with that current gen models wouldn't be able to run?

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Yeah, but current iPhone hardware is still more than capable. What kind of update could they come up with that current gen models wouldn't be able to run?

maybe having apps running in the background? would the current iphones be able to handle alot of background apps without slowing down badly?

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They can't support the old ones forever. Gotta have some incentives to upgrade.

There already are incentives to upgrade, in the form of hardware: faster data speeds, GPS, geotagging, etc. Make the iPhone hardware the reason to upgrade, and keep the software OS available for all the models.

Pretty much every smartphone is upgradeable, my old Orange SPV C600 "Typhoon" was upgraded from WM5 to WM6 then 6 to 6.1 and it will soon be updated to 6.5.

Smartphones, yes, but not your average, run-of-the-mill cell phone.

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