Apple has received approval by the PCS Type Review Certification Board for 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB iPhones, according to an Engadget report.

We're hearing from a trusted source that new iPhones in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB capacities just garnered approval by the PCS Type Review Certification Board, the standards body responsible for certificating handsets for use with some carriers (AT&T, for instance). If true, this would lend credence to the belief that Apple will be introducing at least two new models this summer -- ostensibly at WWDC, until we're told otherwise.

This information is particularly interesting since a possible leak of Fido's roadmap for 2009 shows evidence of a 4GB iPhone 3G with video calling (iChat) for $99. (above article)

video playing is a stock feature on all iPhones. This is done via either the YouTube app or the videos section of the iPod app. In the case of the iPod app you would have to transfer the videos you want via iTunes (which was updated just yesterday) but I suggest using the previous latest version 8.1.1. Check http://filehippo.com for a link to that version.

Apple has released iTunes 8.2 for download; however, the iPhone Dev-Team recommends not installing it at this time.

iTunes 8.2 now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update. iTunes 8.2 also includes many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Here's my lil question/problem. I currently have a 16Gb iphone 3G with OS 2.2 and i wanna upgrade to OS 3.0. I am not sure if my phone is properly unlocked or jailbroken. So...
1. How do i do this?
2. Is it advisable?
3. Would the upgrade lock back my phone?
4. Where the hell can i get a replacement shell for it. Mine get scratch up bad!!

Well for one as of right now 3.0 is only available as BETAs (the 5th being the latest if I remember correctly), therefore no stable, final release version is available as yet. While you can upgrade to the 3.0 BETA 5 it isn't advisable since they are basically unstable & can be deactivated by Apple when they so choose.
When the stable release of 3.0 is out more than likely the iPhone Dev Team will come out with their QuickPwn/PwnageTool applications for Mac & Windows. Usually when you upgrade a jailbroken/unlocked iPhone (2G or 3G) it does relock & looses the jailbreak. But via QuickPwn/PwnageTool that is restored.
3Gs however have baseband issues which being a 2G owner I don't know too much about. However I suggest following the iPhone Dev Team's instructions when 3.0 does come out.
blog.iphone-dev.org/

Need a catch up to the new iPhone rumors as of late?

what about a replacemant shell???? where do i get that?

3.2 camera? Can they do better or do they choose not too

This perhaps?

do not upgrade your iphone unless the dev team says so. Upgrading will lose your unlock possibly forever.

THANK you Zero One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Still looking for a replacement housing for my 16GB 3G

all iphone users should have the dev team site bookmarked. youll find all your unlocking and jailbraking info and tools there.



i have the white 16gb 3g too and im luvin it

what kind of case u looking for there are hundreds of them out there.

not the case...... the housing itself. thaz what i want....

now that would be hard to find unless u get it feom another iphone

TUAW has received an anonymous tip stating that the new iPhone will be called the 'iPhone Video'. The tipster said that AT&T's website will be updated to show the iPhone Video as a model selection when looking for support for Apple devices.

A screenshot showing the select box in action is attached below.

Currently only Original iPhone and iPhone 3G are listed as choices; however, this screenshot could be from a unpublished website that will go live once AT&T begins selling the device.

Earlier today an AppleInsider report showed evidence of the new iPhone in Carphone Warehouse's system. The phones were referenced as iPhone32GbV3. TUAW suggests that perhaps the V stands for video?



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BeeJive has announced their update to BeeJiveIM for iPhone OS 3.0 will include push notifications and be free.

BeeJiveIM is one of most popular instant messaging applications for the iPhone. It features integrated support for AIM/iChat, MobileMe, MSN, Yahoo!, MySpace, GoogleTalk, ICQ, & Jabber.

According to a Mobile Crunch report BeeJive should have the release ready by WWDC next week.



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Carphone Warehouse, the largest independent European mobile phone retailer and an official iPhone reseller, added four placeholders to their inventory list for new iPhone models earlier today, sources tell AppleInsider.

With new iPhone models expected this summer, in addition to the previously-announced 3.0 firmware, Carphone Warehouse appears to be gearing up for the change. A screenshot of its inventory system provided by a person known to have access to such information shows placeholders for both 16GB and 32GB iPhones in both white and black. They're mixed in among the existing and previous iPhone models, having reportedly cropped up just hours ago.

Numerous reports and inadvertent leaks from Apple's partners over the past several weeks have signaled the arrival of third-generation iPhones in capacities of 16GB and 32GB. While the changes to Carphone Warehouse's systems should not be treated as confirmation of new iPhone specifications, the retailers status as an official iPhone reseller could potentially make it privy to such information.

Coupled with Best Buy’s recently-released internal memorandum notifying employees of expected low inventory of the current iPhone 3G, as well as a similar advisory issued by Brightpoint, an iPhone distributor in Australia, retail signs are aligned in pointing to new iPhone disclosures early next week at Apple's annual developers conference.

Last year, Apple introduced the iPhone 3G at the start of its 2008 developers conference on June 9th and announced availability would follow on July 11th. During the four weeks in between, supply of original iPhones were close to non-existent. Thursday's report out of Carphone Warehouse was accompanied by word that the retailer has simultaneously pushed out some of its poster and offer changes until July 7, but AppleInsider has no reason to believe that date is of any broader significance.



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Having pioneered multi-touch for its iPhone and iPod touch handhelds, Apple later extended the technology to trackpads on its Mac notebook line and now appears ripe to introduce the first iPod click-wheels with similar capabilities.

Though sales of the iPod touch have taken off in recent quarters, recent reports suggest that we haven't seen the last of click-wheel-based iPods, the next of which is expected to turn up this fall in the form of a fifth-generation iPod nano with a built-in digital camera and more compact circular scroll wheel.

This new nano could be the first iPod support multi-touch gestures through its click-wheel, according to recent patent filing discovered by AppleInsider this week that details methods for detecting "input gestures that traverse the center of the scroll wheel and to detect multi-touch input."

More specifically, the 38-page filing made just this past September describes a "multi-dimensional scroll wheel" that "can sense a moving object, such as a finger, as it is moved not only in a rotational manner but also in a linear manner across the center of the scroll wheel." This new breed of scroll wheel would also be capable of sensing more than one object at a time, such as multi-finger touch or motion.

"Applications can be enhanced by the improved range of input enabled by the scroll wheel circuitry," Apple explained. "For example, linear motion, such as a swipe across the scroll wheel, can enable an image browsing application to cause images, such as album cover pictures for example, to be transitioned across a screen."

Multi-touch input, such as one finger touching an inner region of the scroll and another finger rotating in the outer region, can also enable a zooming application to cause a displayed image to be zoomed-in or out, depending on the direction of the rotation. Similarly, a pinching or expanding of a user's fingers can enable the zooming application to cause a zooming action.



"The scroll wheel circuitry can also bias the sensor element configuration according to the type of input event expected," the filing adds. "For example, if a particular application permits only linear motion input along a particular axis (e.g., a horizontal or vertical swipe), the scroll wheel circuitry can utilize only the sensor elements arranged along that path to sense for an input event. By using less than all available sensor elements in this manner, the scroll wheel circuitry can achieve power savings."

The filing is credited to over half a dozen Apple engineers, including Lakshman Rathnam, Louis Bokma, Fletcher Rothkopf, Andrea Mucignat, Erturk Kocalar, Benjamin Lyon and Joseph Fisher.

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Apple has spent some time outlining technology that would add a new level of interaction between iPhone users, such as the ability to share and control playback of digital media files like music tracks and video during a telephone call.

The concept is outlined in a 19-page patent filing discovered by AppleInsider this week titled "Methods and systems for mixing media with communications" and credited to Apple software engineer Jeffrey Terlizzi. It begins by noting that while media items are becoming increasingly portable for mobile users these days, they're still not as easily shared with others located remotely in real time.

"For example, an individual may call his friend to discuss music, but in order for the friend to listen to the music, the individual either may have to send the music to the friend using a device other than his telephone," according to the filing, "or he may have to end the phone call and use the telephone to send the friend an email with the music attached."

Cut-and-dried, Apple's approach to improving upon this limitation is to include an "Add Media" option to the iPhone's phone application that would allow users to attach and transmit media items to another iPhone user with whom they're currently engaged in a phone call. Among the listed types of media suitable for transmission during calls are music files, video, images, voicemails, and podcasts.

"For example, the user may initiate a telephone call with his friend in order to ask the friend if she is familiar with a particular song," Apple said. "Once the phone call has been established between the user and his friend, the user may select the song of interest from his communications device, and he may send the song to his friend over the same communication path used by the communications device to establish the communications operation, so that the two may continue their phone conversation while the song plays simultaneously."

Alternatively, the filing notes that "the communications device may receive a communications operation in the form of a request for a video conference, and once the conference is established, the user may select a video (e.g., a YouTube.TM. selection) to be sent back to the conference initiator by the communications device over the same communication path."

iPhone users would also have full control over playback of media items once they're shared, according to Apple. For example, they could pause and resume playback of a shared digital music track, skip to the next or previous track in the sender's music library, or switch to transmitting a different media item entirely.



Throughout the filing, the Cupertino-based company makes numerous references to interactive iPhone video conferences where digital media files are shared, something not possible with today's iPhone models because they don't include include a forward-facing video camera.

"For example, the user may wish to transmit a video media item to the recipient of a communications operation, where the ongoing communications operation is in the form of a video conference," Apple said. "Thus, there may be two video data streams to transmit to the recipient, one related to the media item and one related to the communications operation."



"There may also be two audio data streams to transmit. In order to transmit all of the streams over the same communication path, the control circuitry may employ a multiplexer to combine together any video streams, and to combine together any audio streams," the filing adds. "The multiplexer may then combine into one fixed stream the two combined streams. The control circuitry may signal the communications circuitry to transmit the fixed stream to the recipient of the communications operation using any suitable approach."

Apple session Monday may include new iPhone
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple kicks off its annual developers' extravaganza on Monday under a tight lid of secrecy, with investors expecting the electronics maker to unveil new or cheaper versions of its popular iPhone.

Thousands of customers, developers and investors are set to convene in San Francisco for Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference, hoping to catch a glimpse of its latest high-tech wonders.

But while Apple made waves with its unveiling of the 3G iPhone at last year's event, this year's takes place against a more uncertain backdrop.

Steve Jobs, Apple's charismatic CEO and master showman, is still on medical leave and not due back until July. And the first credible challenger to Apple's iPhone, Palm's new Pre smartphone, makes its grand debut on store shelves just two days before Apple's gala.

While many analysts believe Apple has a variety of new gadgets in the pipeline — from new iPhone models to a long rumored, so-called tablet mini-PC — the company has said the conference will focus on important but less sexy software operating system upgrades.

Others on Wall Street believe the stage is set for a surprise product announcement. "The consensus expectation is that they will also announce the next iteration of the iPhone," said Oppenheimer & Co analyst Yair Reiner.

A few Internet blogs have cited allegedly thin iPhone retail inventories as a tell-tale sign that Apple is clearing the decks to release a new model.

Speculation on a new iPhone has ranged from a model with a physical keyboard to handsets that boast more flash memory and faster processors.

A less expensive, $99 iPhone is also on wish lists, as is the possibility of a model with a cheaper data plan or one sold through a carrier other than AT&T, with which Apple has an exclusive distribution agreement.

Given the proximity to the launch of the Palm Pre smartphone on Saturday, some analysts reckon Apple will hold off on announcing any new iPhones.

"It gives you some time to study the Pre, see what the problems are and roll out a campaign against it," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group consulting firm.

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster expects new iPhones to ship in July, regardless of whether or not Apple announces them at the conference or a later date, while he has forecast a 2010 release date for an Apple tablet PC.

Munster deemed a surprise appearance by Jobs at the show "unlikely," although he said in a recent note to investors he expects Jobs to be back by the end of the month.

According to Apple, the new iPhone 3.0 operating system unveiled at the conference will include 100 new features, including the ability to cut and paste text and improved search functionality. Apple has also said it will showcase its new Snow Leopard operating system for Mac computers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31112620/

guys I have 2 ques about my iPhone.

The browser exits itself while I'm browsing for a long period. Why?

And

There is an icon by my battery which looks like an upside down phone with a keyboard under it. What is it?

Unfortunately crashes in Safari are common, well fairly common anyway. That maybe what causes the sudden exits if Safari. As far as the icon next to the battery that sounds like the TTY icon if I'm not mistaken.

how To get rid of it?

Check
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3519

Update: iPhone 3.0 available June 17th.

Free for iPhone owners
$9.95 for iPod touch owners

iphone 3GS!!!!!!!!!!!

2.1x faster to launch Messages, 2.9x faster to launch a big web page. OpenGL|ES 2.0. Builtin 7.2MBps HSDPA, New camera (3.0Mpix autofocus).

Update: iPhone 3G S announced





part of the Find My iPhone feature.

-3 megapixel camera
-auto-focus camera (w/ tap to focus)
-7.2 Mbps HSDPA
-video recorder (w/ 30fps VGA)
-video editing
-voice commands & responses
-compass
-Nike+

Tap-to-focus feature - tap an item in the photo to focus on it. Resets the light balance too. Improved low-light sensitivity. Automatic macro photographs (10cm). Video capture.

30fps video capture, VGA resolution, with audio, auto focus, auto white balance, auto exposure. Videos show up in photo library. You can trim them, share via emal, MMS, YouTube, MobileMe.

Another new feature: Voice control, voice dialing, hold down the home button for a few seconds in any application. Commands that you can say start floating around on the screen. Say one of them and it happens. Oooh.

Examples: “Dial scott forestallâ€

Same size as iPhone 3G, but has improved battery life. 9 hours on WiFi, 10 hours watching video, 30 hours audio, 12 hours 2G talk, 5 hours 3G talk. Greener materials, packaging.

iPhone 3GS price $199 for 16GB model, $299 for 32GB. Both come in black and white. Prices for AT&T new and qualifying customers. Old 3G available today for $99 with 8GB. New models available on June 19th.

First available in US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, UK. Then a week later, 6 more countries. Many more this summer.

iPhone 3G to remain on market, now for $99 (8GB)

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^ sick!

was hoping for a new form factor - but this will work just fine

Unfortunately it looks like TT is not one of those countries listed to support it.



From what we know so far anyway