Finally we are graced with MMS (that isnt through a third party conning money from us), Cut, copy and paste which is something they should have done a long while ago! Again FINALLY they have allowed 3rd parties to create sat nav applications i.e tomtom etc.

An well the list goes on with a supposed 100 new features and a 1000 new apis for developers!

Oh they've finally got the push notification service going now as well so we can have applications such as IM clients closed down but on receival of a message we will be prompted and have to option to log into the app etc!!

Now all we have to wait for is the new iPhone! The next wdcc is around the june/july time I believe so no doubt it will be unveiled there.

To see the full 1 hour 30 minute presentation of the 3.0 software update visit apples main site.

MMS is 3G only though :thumbdwn:

You still running the old iPhone then? I wish they kept the brush aluminum look on the 3g version, hopefully they will bring it back with the next one!

i think its appalling that they are only now responding to customer demands when their market share is in jepardy from the likes of the Nokia 5800, G1 and Palm Pre...

mms should have been core functionality.. its been around for long enough!.

I think the idea behind it was to push email use, as anything you can do with mms you can do with email and the email functionality was so easy and so on to use on the iPhone, and obviously its free.. However not everyone uses email on there phones and so on so really the MMS was/is needed.

You also have to look at it in other terms, everyone knows until now the MMS was non existent, yet look at all the millions of us that have still bought iPhones! Wasn't as if they tricked us into buying them by leading us to believe they had mms capabilities!

Thats one other thing they've now included too bluetooth peer to peer for things such as applications and so on. Whether that will include sending and receiving photos and what not from one phone to another is a bit unclear atm, now thats something I would like to see.

Some one please welcome apple to circa 2002.

Smartphones have been doing all for for ages!

May well get one later this year then.... My current vodafone contract is up in September so hopefully just in time.

Cheers

Dave.

Edited 21 March, 200917 yr by WaveyDavey

The new iPhone shall be out as well as the 3.0 software update by september. An rumour has it the new iPhone, apparently, the whole screen itself is an lcd screen but also a solar panel too meaning it charges itself as you have it out in the open using it... How true this is however I'm not 100% but I have heard it from various places.

Would be cool though

Cue more p*ssed off iphone owners.

And O2 will own more of your soul. If you moved v1>v2>v3, and each contract was 18 months, you'll only have another 2.5 years of you contract left

Proof people will buy anything, even if they have to sell their soul to get it, with some clever PR

every time i've moved I've started a new 18 month contract, so the previous contract was in fact 12 months and i can either finish this contract 6 months on from the new iPhone or upgrade and start a new 18 month contract..

every time i've moved I've started a new 18 month contract, so the previous contract was in fact 12 months and i can either finish this contract 6 months on from the new iPhone or upgrade and start a new 18 month contract..

I'm sure Decron will be along soon to validate, but.

You carried 6 months from contract one into your current one. This now makes your current contract 24 months. If you do the same again, you *could* end up with a pretty big contract left to serve should you tire of O2.

That's why they were so keen to offer iphone 1 users the upgrade they so desperately wanted. Because you're locked in!

Some one please welcome apple to circa 2002.

Smartphones have been doing all for for ages!

true, but in terms of UI/look and feel the iPhone is expontentially better than WinMob handsets I've got an Omnia) and I still find my 1g far nicer to use than my brother's N96

I'm sure Decron will be along soon to validate, but.

You carried 6 months from contract one into your current one. This now makes your current contract 24 months. If you do the same again, you *could* end up with a pretty big contract left to serve should you tire of O2.

That's why they were so keen to offer iphone 1 users the upgrade they so desperately wanted. Because you're locked in!

I think the extending of the contract may depend upon when you originally got the iphone v1 and when u upgraded it or something as i've just checked my documents to confirm and my contract states 18months from the day I upgraded. But I must admit this is the first i've heard of the contracts being extended by 18 months as opose to just having a new 18 month contract..

The contract is correct stating a new 18 month term.

BUT if you still had time left from the original term, then this has been tacked onto the end. It'll be in your contract under early upgrade.

I took out a Tmob contract in October, and could easily upgrade to a G1 that they're pushing heavily. BUT as said, the remaining 12 months will be added to a new 18 month contract.

The contract is correct stating a new 18 month term.

BUT if you still had time left from the original term, then this has been tacked onto the end. It'll be in your contract under early upgrade.

I took out a Tmob contract in October, and could easily upgrade to a G1 that they're pushing heavily. BUT as said, the remaining 12 months will be added to a new 18 month contract.

I don't think that was the case with the V1 to V2 upgrade, you simply started a new 18 month contract and your existing one was terminated. that's from what I could gather from The Register coverage.

Existing 3G iPhones can be upgraded to V3 firmware so no need to start a new contract unless another revised iPhone comes out with a feature you can't do without!

Had a dig round on the net and it appears to be as follows according to O2 website and forums:

IF you pre-ordered the v1>v2 (3g) upgrade BEFORE official launch date, then your old contract was ended without penalty. You now have the new 18 month term only, which you are mid way through.

IF you upgraded after release, then the remaining air time has been added to your new contract, but you contract will simply state that you've started an 18 month contract (deep in the small print will confirm you've added unused contract term to your new one).

So I was sort of right. Seen people do this with other networks because they've been eligible without realising what they're actually doing/committing to.

If Apple keep launching new handsets every 12 months, then things are likely to get pretty ugly from disgruntled owners.

Ahh fair enough, well i'm a bit of an apple boff so naturally mine was pre-ordered I'm actually shocked at the

IF you upgraded after release, then the remaining air time has been added to your new contract, but you contract will simply state that you've started an 18 month contract (deep in the small print will confirm you've added unused contract term to your new one).

By upgrading after the launch you are, as you said previously, slowly handing your life over to o2, not very good on there behalf imo.