http://www.therightit.com.au/clearspace/groups/mobiles?view=discussions Latest Forum Threads in Smart phones en Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:49:21 GMT Clearspace 2.5.8 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-03-30T11:49:21Z en http://www.therightit.com.au/clearspace/thread/1244 <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:16d3bea2-3e03-4ee0-ab47-2889260d9dd9] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p>This is a guided tour of the new (to be released) iPhone 3.0 software update. You guys will get update sometime in June.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Some of the new features include :</p><ul><li><strong>Systemwide search</strong> </li><li><strong>Copy and paste for text, photos, and SMS</strong> </li><li><strong>MMS</strong> </li><li><strong>Push notifications</strong> </li><li><strong>In-app micropayments</strong> </li><li><strong>Better GPS baked into apps</strong> </li><li><strong>P2P networking and hardware communication</strong></li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: #000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;">You can check out these and other functions here: <a class="jive-link-blog-small" href="http://www.therightit.com.au/clearspace/community/solutions/blog/2009/03/18/what-iphone-os-30-promises-users-and-developers">What iPhone OS 3.0 promises users and developers</a></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;"></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000;"></span></p><p><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/koF4_Gk1gPk"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><embed height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/koF4_Gk1gPk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" wmode="transparent"></embed></object></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Some of the features are good, however, they are really more cosmetic changes (besides copy and paste) which has been a standard function in Windows Mobile for some time.. The one feature that is "kind of" missing is Tethering..</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><div class="jive-quote"><p>Apple’s Senior VP for iPhone Software, Scott Forstall, said that <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/03/17/apple-iphone-30-preview-event-live-metablog/">Apple had already built Tethering into the iPhone software</a>, shuffling the burden of “where the heck is it then?” neatly into the hands of the <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/01/10/rumor-att-reducing-iphone-tethering-plan-10/">still-waffling</a> carriers.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Well, according to <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.macrumors.com/2009/03/18/usb-tethering-working-on-iphone-3-0/">MacRumors</a>, an enterprising developer has gone and shown that Forstall wasn’t just spinning tales. Tethering (where your laptop connects to the internet via a USB or Bluetooth connection to your iPhone) really is already built in there.</p></div><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/03/picture-15-400x295.png"><img alt="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/03/picture-15-400x295.png" class="jive-image" src="http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/03/picture-15-400x295.png"/></a>  </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p>Appearently its up to the carriers as to whether they will allow it.. hmm with the way Telstra charges for data.. I can't see why not!</p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:16d3bea2-3e03-4ee0-ab47-2889260d9dd9] --> iphone 3.0 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:49:21 GMT administrator@therightit.com.au http://www.therightit.com.au/clearspace/thread/1244 2009-03-30T11:49:21Z 1 year, 5 months ago 1 http://www.therightit.com.au/clearspace/thread/1243 <!-- [DocumentBodyStart:00b621b6-93b7-4334-82cc-165b1c2da5ac] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p>What a sensational waste of a working iPhone. For anyone that hasn't seen this series on YouTube, BlendTec are a company that make Blenders.</p><p>An excellent example of using Social Websites to advertise a product, they have posted a series of video blogs where they ask the question "Will it blend?" before blending various things from iPhones to pens, chicken and coke (and drink it) lighters, rakes, the bailout plan, Germany.. etc</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><div class="jive-quote"><p><em>See what the Total Blender can do in the Blendtec test lab, as we ask the question, Will It Blend?</em></p><div class="profileAssets" style="padding-top: 5px;"><em><span class="smallText">Companies:</span> <strong id="user-profile-companies">Blendtec</strong> <br/><span class="smallText">Website:</span> <strong id="user-profile-url"><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.blendtec.com/" name="&amp;lid=ProfileWebsiteLink&amp;lpos=Profile"><span style="color: #ff0033;">http://www.blendtec.com</span></a></strong></em></div></div><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&nbsp;</p><p><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qg1ckCkm8YI"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><embed height="350" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qg1ckCkm8YI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" wmode="transparent"></embed></object></p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:00b621b6-93b7-4334-82cc-165b1c2da5ac] --> iphone blend blendtec Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:24:12 GMT kmetschar@therightit.com.au http://www.therightit.com.au/clearspace/thread/1243 2009-03-30T11:24:12Z 1 year, 5 months ago 1