Cut and paste, MMS highlight iPhone 3.0 improvements

#1 Macworld

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:33 AM

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#2 hempadvocate

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:40 AM

I wish Apple would have clarified why the hardware of the original iPhone cannot support MMS and stereo Bluetooth... or if this is just a limitation they are implementing in software to drive sales of the iPhone 3G.

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:42 AM

Why no full love for the original iPhone??? I like my original and want to keep it as long as possible...but just like when apple switched over to intel...fewer and fewer things are compatible with the older PPC.

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:44 AM

I suspect you are right about them trying to drive 3g sales and entice people to upgrade from their old handset.

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:46 AM

To hell with copy and paste: System wide search? Squee!

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:46 AM

Supposedly it's a different radio, which is the reason that there will be no MMS on the original

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:47 AM

According to the Q&A... Apple is claiming that because the original iPhone has a different radio that it can't support MMS. I assume that would be the answer to the Bluetooth problem as well.

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:47 AM

Chief10 said:

Different hardware abilities? Maybe they're sending MMS via 3G?

No stereo BlueTooth is probably just a different BlueTooth controller chipset.

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:48 AM

In all probability it is not the 3G that they will try to drive sales of, but upgrades to the next hardware update which will arrive, ooh, around about summer time I would think...

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:49 AM

Too bad Apple couldn't have worked with AT&T to offer better MMS support for the original iPhone... like sending a text massage with a clickable URL where I don't have to enter in a random message id and password to view the message in Safari.

#11 hillstones

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:54 AM

I can live without MMS and Bluetooth headphones. At least the other main features will work with the original iPhone. Copy and Paste is nice, but I am glad that the rest of the Apple apps will support landscape, especially Mail.

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:58 AM

In-app purchasing of upgrades is a terrible precedent. You buy a game but now you don't really get 100% of it. Want that cool weapon in the shooter game? Cough up a couple more bucks. MMOs are thinking about doing this too, instead of a monthly subscription. I will not buy into this scheme.
Now then....where is my 32 GB iPhone?

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:58 AM

"Other new features include Note sync with the Mac (or PC) through iTunes"
But will the notes sync with Exchange? And what about syncing To-Do items with Exchange Tasks?

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Posted 17 March 2009 - 10:59 AM

You had me at landscape mode. But I'll have to wait for the dev team to jailbreak it. Can't lose the gloriousness that is SBsettings running in the background.