iPhone 3.0

Netflix: There's a Movie Waiting on Your iPhone

John Paczkowski in News on August 4, 2009 at 8:26 am PT

Among the 1,000-plus new features included in Apple’s iPhone 3.0 is a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, and soon, Netflix will make use of it. Well, that’s the rumor anyway. An industry executive said to be familiar with the company’s plans tells Multichannel News that Netflix plans to extend its Watch Instantly video-streaming service to the Nintendo Wii and to the iPhone and iPod touch as well.

Netflix: There’s a Movie Waiting on Your iPhone

John Paczkowski in News on August 4, 2009 at 8:26 am PT

Among the 1,000-plus new features included in Apple’s iPhone 3.0 is a new open standard for live video streaming over HTTP, and soon, Netflix will make use of it. Well, that’s the rumor anyway. An industry executive said to be familiar with the company’s plans tells Multichannel News that Netflix plans to extend its Watch Instantly video-streaming service to the Nintendo Wii and to the iPhone and iPod touch as well.

The S Is for "Sales," Not "Speed"…

John Paczkowski in News on June 22, 2009 at 5:41 am PT

Looks like Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s second estimate of Apple’s weekend iPhone sales underestimated demand just as badly as his first. Apple didn’t sell 500,000 units of the iPhone 3GS over the weekend, as Munster first predicted. Nor did the company sell 750,000 as he said in a research note this morning. It sold over one million. Moreover, downloads of Apple’s new iPhone 3.0 software, launched last Wednesday, have already reached six million.

The S Is for “Sales,” Not “Speed”…

John Paczkowski in News on June 22, 2009 at 5:41 am PT

Looks like Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster’s second estimate of Apple’s weekend iPhone sales underestimated demand just as badly as his first. Apple didn’t sell 500,000 units of the iPhone 3GS over the weekend, as Munster first predicted. Nor did the company sell 750,000 as he said in a research note this morning. It sold over one million. Moreover, downloads of Apple’s new iPhone 3.0 software, launched last Wednesday, have already reached six million.

iPhone 3.0 @ 10 am PDT, 1 pm EDT

John Paczkowski in News on June 17, 2009 at 8:05 am PT

10 am PDT, 1 pm EDT. That’s when Apple is expected to roll out iPhone 3.0, an update that will bring a number of long-anticipated features to the iconic device. Among them a phone-wide Spotlight Search, push notifications and the long-overdue cut, copy and paste.

iPhone 3.0 @ 10 am PDT, 1 pm EDT

John Paczkowski in News on June 17, 2009 at 8:05 am PT

10 am PDT, 1 pm EDT. That’s when Apple is expected to roll out iPhone 3.0, an update that will bring a number of long-anticipated features to the iconic device. Among them a phone-wide Spotlight Search, push notifications and the long-overdue cut, copy and paste.

WWDC 2009 Keynote LIVE: 3-D Racing, Realtime Medical Data and TomTom Car Kit

John Paczkowski in News on June 8, 2009 at 11:40 am PT

Moving on now to in-app purchases, peer-to-peer support, accessories, and push notifications — things we heard about at Apple’s previous iPhone 3.0 event. Forestall invites gameloft to the stage to demo its new app for iPhone 3.0. Asphalt 5, a 3-D racing game. With media player access, users can access their iPod music via a “car stereo.” Developer describes Asphalt 5 as a console gaming experience. Doesn’t seem to quite live up to that description, but it’s still impressive. Onstage now, Airstrip Technologies, a medical app developer. Airstrip Critical Care. Wow. Realtime medical data delivered remotely to iPhone. Measurable, viewable with zoom, searchable.

WWDC 2009 Keynote LIVE: iPhone OS 3.0

John Paczkowski in News on June 8, 2009 at 11:20 am PT

So what’s next? iPhone OS 3.0, obviously. Its new features: cut, copy and paste, which works across apps and undo support via shake. Also, Landscape view and keyboard for all main applications — mail, messages, etc. MMS support has been added as well. But it’s carrier-dependent. In the states, for example, AT&T won’t be supporting it until late summer (audience groans).

Weekend Update, 4.11.09

Oliver J. Chiang in Social on April 11, 2009 at 2:22 pm PT

Welcome back to Weekend Update, where we showcase some of the highlights from this site over the past week. In the umpteenth round of the old versus new media match, the Associated Press in its annual meeting this week played into the stereotype of the grizzled no-nonsense editor who shakes his fist at the new interweb thing (or was it intertube?) and its feisty friend, Google News, who are running amok on his lawn.

Hello and Welcome to iMoviePhone…

John Paczkowski in News on April 6, 2009 at 10:45 am PT

As we head into the summer iPhone refresh cycle, the Mac rumor sites are fast pulling together a wire-and-string outline of what the device might look like. Last week brought with it reports that iPhone ’09, or whatever it might be called, will sport a 3.2 megapixel camera. Now comes news that it may support 802.11n wireless connectivity and video editing as well.