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Apple has seeded iPhone OS 3.1 to developers with a few new features.

• Voice Control activation from a Bluetooth Headset
• iPhone vibrates on moving apps on the Home Screen
• Modem firmware updated to 5.08.01
• OpenGL and Quartz improvements
• Cut, Copy, Paste functionality in Dial Pad of Phone App
• Non destructive Video editing - option to trim your clip then “Save as copy…” instead of replacing the original clip.
• APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them

But, OS 3.1 might leave some iPhones out there completely disabled for ultrasn0w per Dev Team. Here is what they are saying:

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Our love affair with iPhones takes on a new life with the arrival of a 32GB black iPhone 3GS in our family.

To celebrate that, we have given our site a makeover and released a new design last night. We welcome you to take a look and let us know your comments.

There are still little bugs creeping around under covers and we need your help in finding them. Please let us know either through the comments or the contact form if you come across any. We will deeply appreciate it.

Internet Explorer/Safari bug

At present, the picture carousal (one of the cool things in the new design) isn’t working in Internet Explorer and Safari. It works fine in Firefox & Google Chrome and we are working hard to fix it.

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Unfortunately, this is not a paid gig but you will get some good exposure (link to your site and a brief bio in every post). And as the site turns profitable (we are working hard on it) we have plans for adsense profit sharing, etc in the future. If you are interested, shoot us your bio and why you would like to write for us. We will send you more details following that.

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As a final word, thank you for visiting and supporting Top iPhone Resource. I won’t bore you anymore with these site information but we were so excited to let you know the plans we have for our beloved site.

More great stuff is in the air here. Back to regular programming now.

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A week after the launch of iPhone 3GS if you are in the market for one, you can check the availability online now.

Apple has a little utility here that shows you the iPhone3GS availability by State, City and also by iPhone 3GS model number by Color for 16GB/32GB models.

For eg: at present the Grand Rapids, MI store shows that the black 32GB iPhone 3GS is unavailable! It will be handy to have this information so you can go to the store that has your model in stock.

Here’s the current status info from Apple:

The Apple Retail Store likely has your iPhone 3GS in stock. You can check the most up-to-date availability right here. Shipments of iPhone 3GS arrive most days and availability is updated hourly. The 8GB iPhone 3G is currently available in all stores.

Which one are you looking to get? If this is your first iPhone, you will definitely be blown away by its versatility!

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Dev Team just passed on the good news for those with a iPhone 3GS or waiting to buy/sell unlocked iPhone 3GS.

In less than a week from iPhone 3GS launch (has it just been a week?), they have been able to verify that an exploit used to jailbreak iPod Touch 2G, dubbed 24kpwn, is still applicable to the bootrom of the iPhone 3GS!

If you are familiar with jailbreaking iPhone 3G with redsn0w, the same technique could be used to jailbreak iPhone 3GS.  The iPhone 3GS bootrom seems to have been cut in August 2008 timeframe so this exploit is still valid which is great news for us.

And another great news is that Ultrasn0w - the iPhone unlocking tool can be used as such to unlock iPhone 3GS without any modifications whatsoever!

That said, Dev Team says there are still challenging aspects of iPhone 3GS that needs to worked into their tools. With this coming in less than a week from launch, I am more than hopeful that we will be seeing Redsn0w for iPhone 3GS very soon.

Stay tuned for more updates on iPhone 3GS jailbreak and unlocking.

Excellent work, Dev Team!

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Dev Team has come through again and PwnageTool for iPhone OS 3.0 has been released.

Remember, this is for Mac OS X only. PC users will have to wait a bit longer as always.

DO NOT use PwnageTool of you are using a 3G iPhone with yellowsn0w unlock and rely on unlocking to get cellular service!

Here is the Dev Team complete post and here are the most important points you should know before attempting to jailbreak your iPhone with the relevant parts highlighted (by me)

• GOLDEN RULE: If you are using a 3G iPhone with yellowsn0w and rely on yellowsn0w to obtain cellular service, then you should NOT use PwnageTool right now. UltraSn0w is not included with this release and therefore your baseband will be locked and unable to use an operator other than the official one it was bought for. UltraSn0w will be release via APT (cydia and icy) soon. If you have an original iPhone (1st generation) then 3.0 unlock works with this PwnageTool release.
• Yellowsn0w in its current form will NOT work with the baseband version that is present in the 3.0 update, you will need Ultrasn0w, which will be released sometime soon, Ultrasn0w will work with all iPhone 3G models (but not 3GS), even ones that were previously unlockable, Ultrasn0w (when available) will be released via APT (this means you can get it via Cydia or Icy).
• Please read all parts of this post before downloading and using these tools.
• Read items 1, 2 and 3 again and again.
• At the bottom of this post are the bittorrent files for the 3.0 capable version of PwnageTool.
• This app is suitable for the recent 3.0 release.
• PwnageTool will NOT work for the iPhone 3GS.
• PwnageTool WILL work for Original iPhone (1st Generation), Original iPod touch (1st Generation) and the iPhone 3G.

Official PwnageTool 3.0 Download (bittorrent link)

iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G (with yellowsn0w) unlock as well as PC users will have to wait until DevTeam posts further developments. Stay tuned here or on Twitter and we will bring you updates as we get them.

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Apple has updated and posted the iPhone OS 3.0 User Guide (pdf link) online.

Get your hands on it now!

Here are a few posts that can help you find some cool iPhone OS 3.0 features that you weren’t aware of

• 100+ Hidden Features in iPhone OS 3.0
• AT&T WiFi auto-authentication on OS 3.0
• iPhone OS 3.0 plus 46 security bugs
• How To: See New Push Notifications Settings in iPhone OS 3.0
• The Push is On: Apple Turns on Push Notifications
• Big Update: Evernote for iPhone 3.0 is Here

Have a good reading time! I am awaiting my iPhone 3G S shipment to be delivered by Fedex today and will post our unboxing pictures later on.

If you got your iPhone 3G S already, post your thoughts in the comments. We wanna hear from you.

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Just connect your iPhone or iPod Touch to your iTunes and click Update.

Voila! You’ll see that Apple has released the much awaited iPhone OS 3.0 for your iPhone.

Here are the complete list of OS 3.0 features mentioned in the OS 3.0 screen.

iPhone OS 3.0 Software Update

This update contains over 100 new features, including the following:

• Cut, Copy & Paste with shake to undo
• Landscape keyboard in key applications
• Enhanced Messages application
  - Send and receive photos, contacts, audio files, and location via MMS*
  - Forward and delete single or multiple messages
• Added search feature in Mail, Calendar, Notes and iPod
• Spotlight search across iPhone
• Support for CalDAV and subscriptions in Calenda
• Improvements to Safari
  - Performance
  - HTML 5 support
  - HTTP Streaming audio and video
  - Auto-fill usernames and passwords
• New Voice Memos application
• Sync Notes with a Mac or PC via iTunes
• Internet Tethering over USB and Bluetooth*
• Browse and download movies, TV shows, and audiobooks from the iTunes Store**
• Stereo Bluetooth***
• Wi-Fi auto login
• Enhanced Stocks application
• More Parental Control options for Apps, Music, Movies and TV Shows
• iTunes account creation and login**
• YouTube account login and access to subscriptions, ratings and favorites**
• Shake to shuffle
• New languages, dictionaries, and keyboards
• Find my iPhone and Remote Wipe via MobileMe (subscription required)**
• Support for more Exchange policies
• Create and send Exchange meeting invitations
• Search mail on server (Exchange Server 2007 and supported IMAP servers)
• Search LDAP company directory
• VPN on demand and VPN proxy support
• Encrypted configuration profiles
• Encrypted iTunes backups
• 1,000 new developer APIs, including:
• In App Purchases
• Apple Push Notification Service
• Accessories support
  - Peer to Peer Connectivity
  - Embedded Maps
  - iPod Library Access
• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:

• iPhone
• iPhone 3G
• iPhone 3G S

* Compatible only with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S and requires support from your wireless provider.
** Not available in all regions or in all languages.
*** Compatible only with iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S.

For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the user guide for your iPhone at:
Apple - Support - Manuals

For more information about iPhone, go to:
Apple - iPhone - Mobile phone, iPod, and Internet device.

To troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:
Apple - Support - iPhone

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
Apple security updates

Jailbreaking iPhone OS 3.0

If you’d liketo jailbreak your iPhone OS 3.0, you may want to hold your horses until QuickPwn and PwnageTool 3.0 is released by Dev Team. In the meantime, you can check out the ultrasn0w - 3.0 unlock software demo shown last night.

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You have probably seen sneak peek of the new iPhone 3GS demo from Apple’s Guided Tour.

A YouTube video of the new iPhone 3GS has been found in the wild. The speaker demoing the iPhone 3GS is speaking Portuguese or Greek, I am not sure.

But, this video is great to just watch the various new features of the iPhone 3GS in action.

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I got very busy last week and didn’t get around placing a pre-order for my iPhone 3GS via AT&T.

My heart sank when I read the news from Patrick at my favorite iPhone blog that AT&T had no more iPhone 3GS for pre-order to get it on June 19.

I was about to hit myself in the head with an omlette pan. So, I got on Apple’s website and checked out their online availability. As mine is an AT&T upgrade, they checked my eligibility for a iPhone 32GB for $299 and approved me.

So, I went ahead and placed an order at the Apple online store and my order status shows that my iPhone 3GS delivers on June 19! w00t.

I chose to get it shipped to my house as a nearest Apple is store is 58 miles away from me. I can avoid the lines even if it means I won’t have a 3GS in my hand early in the morning. Since, its a working day for me I won’t get to do much with it until the end of the day anyways.

Plus, I got the iPhone 3G from a AT&T store first thing in the morning for my wife. It does have its appeal but I am trying it shipped this time.

Apple Shipment Notes

I placed my order this morning around 9 AM and I got an order acknowledgement from Apple around 2PM. Yes, I was a little nervous until I received that.

Even though there is a whole Apple thread of people saying some people received an email indicating that iPhone 3GS ships on 19th and arrives on 24th for some people, mine still says ‘Delivers on 19th’. I chose ‘Standard Free Shipping’.

Also, some Apple 3GS orders seem to have been updated with UPS tracking numbers. They are shipping from Shenzen, China to arrive here on June 19!

Did you already pre-order your iPhone via AT&T or Apple? If your order status already has a tracking number, share that news in the comments.

And I also ordered the trusted Invisible Shield for iPhone 3GS from Zagg plus got a 20% off my order with coupon code ZAGG20.

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The new iPhone 3GS has officially been announced. With tons of juicy features and we will be covering them in detail in the coming weeks as soon I get my hands on one.

Here are some of the important features announced

• Video - 30fps VGA video with in-phone editing support
• HSDPA - 7.2Mbps on supported carriers
• Camera - 3 megapixel, autofocus, autoexposure, tap to focus, better low light sensitivity
• Improved battery life - in Wifi mode, Internet surfing mode, etc
• Turn-by-Turn direction support - in Google maps and via apps like TomTom
• Performance - reporting almost twice the speed in most operations
• Colors - Black and White

iPhone 3GS Videos

• New iPhone 3GS TV Ad
• iPhone 3GS Guided Tour

Pricing in US

iPhone 3GS has been announced at the following prices and will be available on June 19.

• 32GB iPhone 3GS - $299 with contract
• 16GB iPhone 3GS - $199 with contract

The current iPhone 3G will continue to be available at

• 16GB iPhone 3G - $99 with contract

So, the $99 iPhone rumor was correct after all. It was a little disappointing to not find the front facing camera but the rest of the features are enough to make me go out and buy a 32GB iPhone 3GS! How about you?

If you have been holding off on buying a iPhone so far, I’d say iPhone 3GS makes a pretty good case for buying one.

iPhone OS 3.0

iPhone OS 3.0 will be available on June 17th for download via iTunes. And you can read about iPhone 3.0 new features here. if you have a jailbreak iPhone, please wait until the Devteam releases Quickpwn 3.0 or Pwnage 3.0 before updating your iPhone OS!

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If you are excited about iPhone OS 3.0 and the possible new iPhone hardware to be announced in today’s Apple WWDC 2009 event, here are 3 good live blogs you can follow.

• Engadget Live blog
• Gizmodo Live blog
• Ars Technica Live Blog

If you missed any of the live blogs, after the event is over you can find the WWDC 09 keynote video here.

Also, if you are on Twitter - follow me at @TopiPhone to get updates as the keynote progresses.

We will be back with more updates soon. Stay tuned.

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After all the rumors that went around the blog world about the iPhone 3.0 OS, today it was great to find out most of them were indeed true.

Are you ready for the long list of features (over 100) that are coming in iPhone 3.0?

New Features For Us

• Cut, copy & paste - Works for both text and photos. You can copy multiple photos to Main. Shake to undo/redo a paste.
• A2DP Stereo Bluetooth - pair iPhone to a stereo Bluetooth device
• MMS - forward and delete multiple messages
• Spotlight - search across all your content and apps that support Spotlight
• Search in Mail, Calendar & iPod - special search interfaces including searching in IMAP servers
• Tethering - built into iPhone OS 3.0 - careers will determine pricing
• Auto-login for WiFi hotspots
• Landscape Keyboard - in more apps like Mail, SMS & Notes
• New Calendar types - Gmail and Yahoo friendly CalDAV support
• Note syncing with iTunes in Mac and PC
• Autologin in Safari - remembers username/passwords
• Shake to shuffle - in iPod while listening to music to change tracks
• Parental control - adult content filters to movies, TV shows, apps plus websites and music.
• Enhanced App Store - app subscriptions, purchase additional content like travel guides to new cities, levels to games, etc.
• YouTube account support
• Form auto-fill
• New Stocks app - with news stories and landscape view

New Features for Developers

Developers get over a 1000 new APIs.

• Peer-to-peer connectivity over Bluetooth for gaming and info-swapping
• Ability to take payments within Apps to give access to paid content
• Allows call out to Google Maps
• Turn-by-turn GPS information on iPhone without needed 3G connectivity or Google
• Push notification - finally
• iPhone 3.0 apps can access VOIP via WiFi connectinb
• Audio recording, streaming video
• Access iPhone/iPod music library from other applications

Features that didn’t make it

• No background apps - we still have the jailbreak app Backgrounder (of course QuickPwn 3.0 will have to come out then)
• No better way to arrange and manage apps in your home screen - thank God for jailbreak apps like QuickGold & Categories.

It’s plainly an incredible iPhone OS release with over 100 new features and over 1000 new APIs for iPhone developers. With the imminent competition from Palm Pre in the coming months, Apple has answered back addressing a lot of the long overdue features such as copy/paste, push notification, MMS, etc.

iPhone OS 3.0 will be a free upgrade to iPhone 3G users. iPhone 2G users can also upgrade to 3.0 but won’t have some features like A2DP due to hardware limitations.

iPod Touch 2G users can also upgrade to iPhone 3.0 by paying $9.95. Also, the Bluetooth has been unlocked in iPod Touch in 3.0 firmware.

Apple has again proved that they can listen to their users and respond back, albeit in this instance a little late. If this is a little too late remains to be seen. But, I can’t wait to get my hands on iPhone OS 3.0 that’s set to come out this Summer of ‘09.

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