Wired gets a hands-on with the iPhone 3G OS, not that impressive [Update]
- July 8th, 2008
- 11 Comments
Danny over at Wired managed to wrangle himself a first gen iPhone with iP3G software installed, which is pretty exciting, but it’s actually pretty ho-hum. Maybe a few of these things weren’t known, but they’re not at all surprising. When using the camera it prompts the user to allow for geo tagging. Eh. Location based services can be turned on and off. You can now search for contacts rather than flicking through as well as tagging them with keywords. Pretty sure James will like this. Push e-mail is here! Duh. Fetch those all important messages every 15, 30 or 60 minutes. You can also manually adjust if you’re that enthused by e-mails from your boss at all hours. My interest is dwindling.
Keenan (Who am I?)
4 months ago
I can’t wait to get mine friday
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Devin Coldewey (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Why does our resident iphone hater write all the iphone posts?
peterhahaha (Who am I?)
4 months ago
sounds like sour grapes to me :)
Joshua Wee (Who am I?)
4 months ago
When will the iPhone 3G be released in Asia ?
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Ruben Zevallos Jr. (Who am I?)
4 months ago
I’m looking forward to get mine too…
Paul (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Lame review.. nothing about the built in GPS, the apps store or enterprise support is major.. Who wants a fricken lame Microsoft mobile or crackberry.. I love my iphone with enterprise (so much better then the Microsoft or Blackberry), looking forward to the new 3G
So Wired.. If you are going to write a review, write one, not a lame (Ho-Hum) comment!
Michael (Who am I?)
4 months ago
The actual OS isn’t see very many changes, what is going to make the huge difference are all the applications that are going to be available in the App Store (many of them for free). This is why the iPhone 2.0 is going to be huge, it’s finally easy for cell phone users to get apps on their phone and the apps are good.
Tim (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Can someone clarify this for me? Is push e-mail supported or just timed retrieval? I know that Steve mentioned push e-mail, but the post mentioned retrieving e-mails at intervals, which is not push in my book.
Peter Ha (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Tim-
The new OS will do push along with timed intervals like the current iPhone.
andym801 (Who am I?)
4 months ago
what a negative guy. we already knew the big change about the iPhone 3G is obviously the 3G.
Geek (Who am I?)
4 months ago
Start Saving for the 3G… Looks Good…
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