“Yes, 3.0 GM is released to developers. This is the final 3.0 release. There is no jailbreak for it at this time. Do not yet upgrade. There are rumors of people using the 3.0 b5 jailbreak tools. This is a terrible idea. It will replace most your 3.0GM with B5 components. You will not have a real 3.0 final any longer, instead you will have a hybrid 3.0 and beta 5. It’s a terrible idea. Next week when beta 5 expires, your 3.0 jailbreak could expire as well and you would have to restore all over again.Yes, some people may claim that they did this and “it works fine”. But as I just stated, it is not a real 3.0 final any longer. Definitely not a good idea nor is this something you want.
Just wait a few days and you should be ok.”
• iTunes - rent and purchase movies right from your iPhone
All Ready Knew About Features:
• Copy & Paste
I’m pretty confident that the name of the 3rd iPhone will be called “iPhone Video”. There’s strong evidence in the iPhone 3.0 Beta firmwares to support this:
This screenshot seems pretty real to me. It would make total sense to have one app run both the still image camera and the video camera. Just toggling the switch into video mode would change the button to a red dot kinda like the red light on the front of most video cameras.
There’s a lot more that goes along with video, one of the best is a new camera/lens. A big rumor is an upgrade to the camera to 3.2MP and the addition of auto focus. This would be really nice for me because right now I carry a DSLR and a Flip Video along with my iPhone. I would like the iPhone to replace the Flip. I doubt it will ever replace the big digital camera. I NEED ZOOM!
There are rumors of physical changes to the device too. One is replacement of the chrome bezel to black. I’m not sure why Apple would do this. Both first iPhones have the chrome. Not really a big deal to me but I guess it’s false. Another thing I don’t think is going to happen is the rubberized back. I used to have a incase rubber case for my iPhone, and while it did help me hold onto he iPhone, it made it hard to get in and out of my pocket. I think Apple will continue to resort to cases to allow the user to customize them.
There are all kinds of rumors flying around about the price of the next set of iPhones. The biggest one is a $99 4GB model. This would be a big seller for the device, but the monthly plan is the bigger concern too. There are, of course, rumors about the data plans becoming cheaper too. I think the $99 iPhone is very likely (with a 2 year contract of course). Data plans changing would be nice, but anything less than unlimited SMS/MMS and Data are not going to happen with me.
Standard feature upgrades like more battery life, speed, memory, storage, OS update all seem expected.
Some final features for our list may be good ideas, but I just don’t see happening. They include a glowing Apple logo on the back, dedicated shutter button, background running apps, Adobe flash, 802.11n, FM Transmitter and a compass. How about the return of Steve Jobs? (also a rumor)
I’m sure there are more and more but we’ll get to that tomorrow. We’ll be live blogging all the info we can get, tomorrow, noon central time. Goodnight, sweet dreams.
There are also reports of a few changes in the external look of the new iPhone. Apart from reports of the metal band around the edge of the device ‘gone missing’, the new device is believed to have a comparatively sleeker design with a rubber-tread backing.
The new iPhone is stated to offer 32GB storage capacity.
Although there is no confirmation yet on the price, rumors are rife that the 16GB and 32GB storage is priced at $199 and $299 respectively.
The short battery life in the current iPhone version is believed to be one of the bigger flaws in this highly popular device. The battery life of the new iPhone is believed to be 1.5 times greater than the original Palm Pre
Apart from doubling of the RAM to 256MB, the processor speed is also expected to be twice as fast from the current 412MHz clock speed to 600MHz. iPhone enthusiasts are hopeful about the inclusion of background processing too.
Possible inclusion of 3.2-megapixel camera, for taking clear pictures; along with functions like video-recording and editing.
The new iPhone with iPhone 3.0 software update will most likely allow iPhone users send pictures and videos via MMS.
Built-in FM transmitter is probably one of the most anticipated features to look forward in the new iPhone. Another expected feature is the OLED screen.
• The new device allowing turn-by-turn directions is another feature iPhone users are looking up to.
Apple started pushing out their official iTunes 8.2, which supports mobile devices at firmware 3.0. Here’s why you jailbreakers and yellowsn0w-users shouldn’t really accept that “Update now?” question:
•Most people aren’t at 3.0. In fact 3.0 is still in beta and has lots of bugs (especially related to push updates).
•It breaks your ability to use QuickPwn, PwnageTool, and iPhone Tunneling Suite (ssh over usb). We don’t think this is a deliberate breakage of these tools. It’s just that Apple has updated a low-level USB protocol that normally only Apple cares about (but jailbreakers care about).
•So far, the only appreciable change to iTunes 8.2 is the Genius function working on videos.
•It may actually break Palm Pre’s connection to the device (please give us feedback on this).
This update is one of those that incidentally breaks QuickPwn and PwnageTool. It doesn’t seem like an anti-jailbreak. But nonetheless, it will break your ability to re-run QuickPwn or PwnageTool’s dfu-entry.
Because this update isn’t a deliberate anti-jailbreak measure, it’s easily fixed in our tools. But we really don’t want to update our tools until 3.0 is out, so please don’t update to 8.2 if you think you’ll need to rejailbreak your device. :)
YellowSn0w on 2.2.1 and beyond
We see many questions about whether yellowsn0w can ever be made to work on firmware versions past 2.2 (or equivalently, basebands past 02.28). This is probably a good place to address those questions:
If there is a yellowsn0w update for firmware after 2.2 (or basebands after 02.28), there is no way it would ever be released before 3.0 is official. It just wouldn’t make any sense to release an exploit for something that only those who have beta 3.0’s (NDA signers) could use. Most people in the world aren’t NDA signers. Any yellowsn0w update for 3.0 would need to happen *after* 3.0 is officially available.
Read their official blog at Dev-Team Blog
Reaction is a application from 'Cydia' that tests your 'Reflexes' Pretty simple way:
- Once launch application you'll get one big angry face and a cool face at the bottom.
- At a random time, the angry face will turn into a happy face.
- Once you see a happy face, immediately tap on the cool face below.
- A window pop out telling you how many milliseconds you took to tap the cool face after the happy face changed.
If you need more information, jus tap on the 'i' icon at the bottom left of the screen.
Test your speed and endurance is this quick and speed driven app. You might think it’s easy, but how quickly can you conquer it past level 10?
Siren is quick to play, but hard to master. Play quick games in 30 seconds or challenge yourself for hours as you pop the dots from left to right!
Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch (2nd generation)
Requires iPhone 2.1 Software Update
Price:
$1.99
Need more functions or customizations in your setting? Extended Preference 1.0 from Cydia is the tool for you.
Once it’s activated, you can go set your preferences in Settings > SpringBoard (note that this “SpringBoard” tab has been added by Extended Preferences.
Extended Preferences will allow you to:
- Set fake signal bars, time, or carrier
- Display a numeric battery or wifi
Wishing your iPhone/iPod touch can view Microsoft files? Well here you are. 'TextGuru', a powerful application that allow users to view all sorts of microsoft files right in your iPhone.
As simple as viewing? Guess not. This software even allows users to cut, copy and paste with the application. For those that need precise instructions on cut and paste:
- Tap ONCE where you want to begin, then IMMEDIATELY after, tap again and HOLD DOWN
- With your finger still held down, DRAG to where you want to STOP copying/cutting
- Pull your finger straight up off of the screen, and then select either cut or copy from the toolbar above the keyboard
Check out their full features:
- Cut, copy and paste
- Find and replace
- Autosave
- Read Microsoft Office Documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) in both landscape and portrait modes
- Read PDF Files in both landscape and portrait modes
- Integrated file sharing
- Search within the text of your entire document collection
- Pastebin support with Pastie and Sprunge
- Email entire documents or share pastebin links with anyone
- On-demand web preview of web documents
- Display documents in any of the 22 fonts available on the iPhone
- View binary files using either hex or ASCII representation
Upcoming features of Version 1.1
• Proper file/folder management
• Quick file sharing
• A full FTP client
• Web file downloading
Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update
Price:
$4.99
Find the word 'Diner Dash' fimiliar ? Yes! Our old time favourite game and now its right in your iPhone! You can now play it on the go.The iPhone is powerful enough that there’s no need to “slim down” the game, as with most mobile devices. The biggest difference (besides the smaller screen) is the touch interface.
It feels totally natural to play: dragging customers to seats, then just pointing at tables, the ticket wheel, and the dish bin. You’ll love it!
Career Mode offers 50 levels of gameplay in five unique restaurants while Endless Mode serves up a steady stream of customers with distinct dining habits and patience levels. Fast, fun, and fantastically addictive.
Features:
50 fast-paced levels
6 types of customers
2 modes of play
Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update
Price:
$4.99
A new game from Cydia! I really find this game addictive, make you use your brain as you level up to different stage.
RailWater is a piping game where you place the correct joints together to match the number and letting the water move through.
During the game play, you will need to select a piece from the lower menu bar and drag it where you would like it. When you add a piece, it will make the water flow based on the shape of the pipe you added. You want the water to flow through all the pipes.
You can spin the pipe joints by tapping on them. However, you will also notice that at the end of each pipe there is a circle with numbers in them. The numbers also have to match each other. Example) 120/120. So, you have to use the correct pipes to subtract the correct amount of points as well as have the water flow through all the pipes!
Price:
Free
This game is a sure to try!!!
Play solitaire Chinese Poker heads up against the Ace Squared AI engine. You are dealt 13 cards and must make three hands. The best hand on the bottom, second best in the middle and last three cards on top.
Game options include 2-4 or 1-6 scoring, lowball in the middle and royalties . You can set the AI engine on easy, expert or genius.
Chinese Poker is also known as Russian Poker or Pusoy. It has been played in the Asian community for many years and is growing in popularity across the world.
Many poker pros play for hundreds or thousands of dollars a point. (Of course this iPhone game is played just for fun!)
Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update
Price:
$5.99
Turn your iPhone or iPod Touch into an instant tool to find nearby people of similar interests.
WhosHere automatically shows you people that are closest. Whether your looking for a friend, a date, a carpool buddy or a looking to do some professional networking, WhosHere will instantly show you people that share your interests and that are nearby to you.
WhosHere is not too complicated, it finds people near you and shows you their photos. You can create yourself a profile and add your photo, your name, and more bio details like your gender, age, and relationship status. Then you can state who you want to meet by gender, age, and relationship status.
You can browse people near your location, or new users to WhosHere. Once you find a friend you can do a few things: Send them a chat message, add them to your address book (yes, this means your actual iPhone Contacts and WhosHere imports the user photo as well), or block them if they give you the creeps.
You can send pics to any user on WhosHere, and what’s cool is you can take a photo using your iPhone and send it all in one shot. There is a tab that keeps a list of all your chats with other users for your reference.
There a bunch of settings you can modify to fine tune how you see other users and how they see you. More social features are hopefully on the way, perhaps blogging and widgets? Watch out MySpace and Facebook.
Requirements:
Compatible with Iphone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.1 Software Update
Price:
Free
Mood Tracker webapp for iPhone predicts your mood based on the position of the moon, and your birth month (star sign).The first of several astrology applications.
When you enter a participating Starbucks with an iPod touch, an iPhone, or a computer running the latest version of iTunes, you can access the iTunes Store and the Starbucks Now Playing content. To see if iTunes has arrived at your Starbucks, consult our list of participating Starbucks locations.
Connecting with an iPhone or iPod touch
Before attempting to connect to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, be sure that the iPhone or iPod touch software is up to date. Learn how to update your iPhone or iPod touch software.
You will also need to sync your iPhone or iPod touch with a computer that has an iTunes Store account set up in iTunes. Doing so will sync your iTunes Store account to your iPhone or iPod touch. All subsequent purchases you make with this device via the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store will be charged to this iTunes Store account.
When you are in a participating Starbucks, select tmobile from the list of Wi-Fi networks on your iPhone or iPod touch. To find the list of Wi-Fi networks, tap Settings and then tap Wi-Fi. Then, on the Wi-Fi Networks screen, tap tmobile to join the network.
Once you have joined the T-Mobile network, you can connect to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store. Press the Home button to return to the Home screen and then tap iTunes. You are now connected to the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store and will be able to buy and download music.
To access the Starbucks Now Playing content, simply tap the Starbucks icon. From this screen you can purchase the currently playing song, any of the last 10 songs played, or songs from featured Starbucks Collections.
Connecting with a portable computer
Before attempting to view the Starbucks Now Playing content, make sure you have the latest version of iTunes installed.
When you are in a participating Starbucks, select tmobile from your computer's list of Wi-Fi networks. If you have a Mac, you can learn how to join wireless networks here.
Once you are connected to the T-Mobile network, you can open iTunes and access the iTunes Store to see the Starbucks Now Playing content as shown below.
Okie this application really surprise me, iPhone can now read your life line by just taking a picture of your palm ?
Real Cool !
Palmist is your personal palm reader for the iPhone. Every palm tells a story. This App uses the built-in camera to help you read the stories written in the hands.
Find out if you're a lucky person or not. Discover whether or not your palm says you take the backseat in relationships. What you find out may surprise you! Get a new reading today!
Be reminded 'Palmist' is for entertainment purposes only.
Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone
Requires iPhone 2.1 Software Update
Price:
$1.99
Have you ever wish all your applications can be organize into a single folder? Well now you can. With the new application call 'Categories' found in Cydia, you can simpily place all your games or Utilities into a single folder on your desktop.
The app comes with a GUI configurator so that you do not have to edit text files. When you add an app to a category, it is removed from the springboard list so that it no longer shows up on the main desktop. When you remove the app from the category it is returned back to the springboard.
Check out the sample picture folder full of games loaded.
Creating and Deleting Categories
To create a category, load the main GUI and select "ADD". You will be asked to type the name of the category and then select an icon. Once this is done, you will need to add programs to the category to use it.
To delete a category, just tap "Edit" and then select the category to delete. Categories must be empty in order to be deleted. Therefore, you must first delete the apps out of the category before you can delete the category.
Do you have lots of applications installed in your iPhone ? Is categories taking too long a time to load up ? Well Quickgold is definately a 'MUST' for you.
This application not only has 'zero' load time, it also searches for installed apps on your iPhone or iPod touch and lists them as you type in search terms. You can also call phone numbers in your address book or launch web clips.
After you install QuickGold you won’t actually see an icon for it on your SpringBoard. To get to it, you have to click on the hard button (home button) while you are on the home screen and a search box will appear.
This application work best with categories installed. Once you organized all your applications using categories, you can then launch Quickgold to find your desired applications quickily.
Quickgold can be found in Cydia, do a quick search by typing 'Quickgold' to install this application. Try this out to know for yourself !!!
Calculate Loan Payments and a Whole Lot More
First, and foremost, Loan Shark is an easy to use loan calculator. Enter the information you know, click a button for the field you want calculated, and Loan Shark fills in the amount for you.
Once you've got your loan details, click the Amortization button, and you'll see a full amortization table with the details of each month's payment. Use this to quickly determine exactly how much in interest your loan will cost you, see the effect of paying an extra payment per year, and so much more!
Features:
- Calulcate Any Field; Need to calculate what the payment will be? Or maybe you need to calculate the amount you can afford based on the payment? However you need to look at your loan, Loan Shark can figure it up for you.
- Full Amortization Table; With the click of a button, see the full amortization table right on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Examine it month-by-month to see exactly how much you're paying for your loan.
- One-tap Extra Payment; Making an extra payment on your loan each year can dramatically reduce the cost of your loan. With Loan Shark, you can easily see what that extra payment will save you over time.
- Saved Favorites; Want to compare loans from different financial institutions? Loan Shark's handy Favorites feature let you save different loan scenarios for later recall. Reload the entire loan with just one tap.
- Nearby Banks; Using the iPhone or iPod Touch's built-in location sensor, Loan Shark can retrieve a list of nearby banks, making shopping for a loan that much easier.
Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.0 Software Update
Price:
$4.99
If anyone can remember the image on my left you should have remembered it came from one of my favourite application; Time Capsule.
Today they are back again, renamed into Chronus. Same application that was used in the past, to backup all your applications.
Chronus has been released for download on the Cydia Installer. If you have previously backed up your files with TimeCapsule in 1.x, the files that you should save and copy over to your computer are located at: /var/mobile/Library/Preferences/TimeCapsule. In the new firmware, you should put these files back to the same location.
The free version of Chronus is limited to one backup per application. If you have an old TimeCapsule serial it will work or you can purchase the app for $7.99.
IMPORTANT: Some users are having Chronus crash immediately at launch. This has been fixed and will be released in the soon coming Chronus 2.1. Chronus 2.1 will also come with some other features:
- email of backup
- backup all mode (only backups user-defined apps’s settings so it does not backup unnecessary files)
- addition of support through URL
The last feature above is probably the most exciting feature. Developers can now add support to their applications but specifying the parameters in a URL. Users will have surf to the developers’ website, click on the link and it will automatically launch Chronus and inserts all the necessary parameters. If this works out well, then there’s no need to wait for me to release a new update just to add support.
