iPhone 3.0 Copy and Paste Described

Last night I attended the Live Diggnation event in Austin, Texas at SXSW, where Kevin Rose confirmed through his sources that iPhone 3.0 would have Copy and Paste.

He said it worked like this... you would press and hold a word and a Magnifier type bubble would appear with quotes around the word. Move the quotes around what you want selected and then you can press Copy.

Also confirmed no MMS for this release.

Confirmed that there would be no background apps, but he says that what Apple has coming will wipe away any advantages that Palm has touted with its Pre handheld.

Also confirmed no video due to a hardware limitation with the NAND memory that Apple uses. The amount of writing and IO to the memory could cause issue with the phone hardware, so it's out of the question.

You can see this all on the Diggnation that will air next week.

Let me make sure I understand this.

Copy and Paste? Check.

MMS? Nope.

Video? Nope.

Background Apps? Nope.

So where on earth is the "+more" part?

Seems like he is saying all the rumored stuff is NOT coming to the new firmware.

I mean, they surely are not going to go from 2.2 to 3.0 and only bring Copy and friggin Paste to the table?

Right?

It will air next week?

Useful, considering we'll see exactly what 3.0 has coming on Tuesday anyway.

Where is the +more part?

Seems like he is saying all the rumored stuff is NOT coming to the new firmware.

Sorry, maybe that's not the proper way to say it, I just wanted to get the point across that there was more info in this than just him confirming Copy & Paste.

Seems like he is saying all the rumored stuff is NOT coming to the new firmware.

I mean, they surely are not going to go from 2.2 to 3.0 and only bring Copy and friggin Paste to the table?

Right?

People in the crowd were yelling out features, so he answered the big ones... like MMS and Video and Background Applications... he didn't have any other insight into it, but I'm pretty sure that Apple has more in store for us on Tuesday than just Copy and Paste, they don't usually make big point releases without them (again, usually don't...)

Sorry, maybe that's not the proper way to say it, I just wanted to get the point across that there was more info in this than just him confirming Copy & Paste.

Sounds like your going to have to purchase the 2009 iphone this summer to get more than copy and paste.

Also confirmed no video due to a hardware limitation with the NAND memory that Apple uses. The amount of writing and IO to the memory could cause issue with the phone hardware, so it's out of the question.

Would you please clarify what you mean by videos. Confused.

TIA.

Would you please clarify what you mean by videos. Confused.

TIA.

He means video recording.

Kevin Rose?


Google how wrong he has been about the iphone before.


Then continue to ignore Kevin Rose on this and other matters...

:rolleyes:

Heck, at least he's not the only one with high expectation. I believe we'll only get one of those things (Copy & Paste). Probably no MMS, no video...and probably background in June/July when the phone comes out. They probably won't mention it next week...but we shall see.

Apple always disappoint me, so my expectations are LOW.

Kevin Rose?


Google how wrong he has been about the iphone before.


Then continue to ignore Kevin Rose on this and other matters...

:rolleyes:

Try seeing how many things he has correctly stated. Many things.