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No hard date for its public release: the official line is “summer” when it will be free for all iPhones (although hobbled on the iPhone EDGE, with no MMS and no stereo Bluetooth) and $9.95 for iPod touches. Now let’s see how long it takes for those beta images to start circulating around. It will…
Now you can focus your rage directly at AT&T for the lack of a legit tethering solution. In the Q+A, Apple’s Scott Forstall put the onus on the carriers to come up with an official tethering solution (at extra cost, of course): Q: Where do you stand on tethering? A: There’s two pieces needed to…
The third iteration of iPhone software doesn’t just add features (more here) like copy and paste. There’s a lot new going on in terms of usability and interface that every non-power user will appreciate. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3-0-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-5171796 Search Everything With Spotlight Instead of digging through 10 screens for your apps, search them out just like in OS…
The new Spotlight search menu in the iPhone 3.0 OS resides to the left of the regular home screen and functions as a quick search and quick launcher across all applications. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3-0-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-5171796 Note the mini magnifying glass all the way to the left of the navigation bar.
If this camera button is any indication, you’ll soon be able to send photos (and videos?) with your iPhone, just like all your friends have been doing since 2003. Sweet. • Confirmed is support for sending and receiving photos, contacts (VCards), and audio files. Looks like video is not included. • You can record voice…
iPhone 3.0 OS, the next generation operating system for the iPhone, iPod touch, and whatever Apple device comes next. New features, new apps, here you will find all the information you need. https://gizmodo.com/how-iphone-3-0-will-feel-different-5171995 This just in: a hands on tour, impressions and gallery of screenshots of the new OS donated by our helpful readers. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3-0-beta-os-impressions-and-walkthrough-gallery-5172807…
After about 10,000,000 requests, Apple has finally given in and delivered the super-basic feature that the iPhone has been missing since day 1: cut and paste. Took you jerks long enough. Here’s how it works: you double tap on a word to present a cut, copy, paste popup. Two draggable icons appear for customizing the…
To demonstrate the piles of new features and APIs included in iPhone OS 3.0, Apple brought along a few developers to show off their latest wares. Here’s what they’ve got so far. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3-0-os-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-5171796 First off, we’ve got another version of The Sims. The graphics look good, but the demo was really just a chance to…
Rather than spawning entirely new apps for updates or additional levels for a game, iPhone 3.0 apps can now charge for content updates within the apps themselves. • There’s support for downloading additional content from within an app, rather than having to download a whole new app entirely. That means new levels, new cities for…
Maybe it’s OK if you are shopping for crack in New Jersey, but that’s Señor Commanderino Brian Lam waiting to get into the iPhone keynote at Apple’s headquarters, 45 minutes ago. [photo via Ars Technica]
The Wristwatch Cuckoo Clock may still be our resident cuckoo champion, but this striped wall clock from Italy comes in a very close second. https://gizmodo.com/the-cuckoo-watch-is-so-crazy-that-it-just-might-work-5167395 By Diamantini & Domeniconi, the $230 Striped Cuckoo Clock has ditched the typically rustic bark and straw birdhouse design for a more modern approach to avian living. After all, in…
Spalding has finally jumped on the iPod bandwagon (right down to the ubiquitous “i” moniker) with their new iHoop basketball system. Billed as “the ultimate fusion of basketball and music,” the iHoop features a built-in sound system that is licensed for iPod use, but should work with any standard MP3 player. The audio system cranks…
Allergic to Apple? Click on this—you’ll be surprised how much we cover that doesn’t come out of Cupertino. [Apple-Free Giz]
Follow the iPhone OS 3.0 keynote liveblog and win a free pizza like Maximillian Hill. Here are the instructions: https://gizmodo.com/giz-bingo-winner-is-now-one-pizza-happier-5082935 • Print out the bingo card. • Follow our the iPhone OS 3.0 keynote liveblog and take note of the timestamp as the event in the bingo card happens. • You can shout bingo if…
Besides making you resemble David Byrne in Stop Making Sense (good!), this concept from Polish designer Maja Ganszyniec that turns your collar, tie and sleeve into a pillow looks very comfortable. [Portfolio Page via DVICE]
We’re here! Apple’s about to unveil the iPhone 3.0 OS, and Brian Lam and I are going to be covering it live. LIVE. And don’t forget to play pizza bingo while you follow the keynote. https://gizmodo.com/iphone-os-3-0-liveblog-pizza-bingo-follow-the-keynote-5172060 Archive Below: 7:06 AM ON MAR 17 2009 Jason Chen: One of the benefits of having these keynotes in…
Here’s what happens inside a computer when it plays chess. Spoiler: It’s a lot of “hmmm, let’s do this! No, this! Oh, this! Wait, this! Hmmaybe this! That’s wrong! Let’s do this!” [Turbulence via DRB]
I must be getting old, because when I look at these Augmented Reality Lego, instead of thinking “cool!”, I think “In my day, we just used regular Lego and they were just fine for us.” This Augmented Reality concept basically allows you to put fake, computer generated Lego guns and a HUD around your Lego…
This is the Future Protected Vehicle, a British Army infantry transport/light tank/awesome thingie which has a built-in reconnaissance drone. The drone can be launched to detect enemies and guide missiles to destroy them. [DOD]
I long for a life without cables. Wireless TVs, wireless speakers, wireless computers, wireless everything, even wireless bungee jumping. I just hate how they tangle in incomprehensible masses of clusterfraking knots. Like Christoph Niemann shows: https://gizmodo.com/what-in-wired-hell-is-this-5169224 Head to Cristoph’s NYT column for the rest of his funny series. [NYT—Thanks OMGPonies!]