Taking accessory support to the "next level."

iPhone OS 3.0 can talk directly to an accessory.

iPhone can control the speaker's EQ, for example.

Now talking about FM transmitters for cars.

FM signal can be controlled from the iPhone's display.

Now talking about medical devices and accessories.

Also enabling some of this over Bluetooth. "We support all the standard built-in protocols."

Next: accessories. There are thousands of accessories that work great with iPods and iPhones. Here's a popular one, a speaker

With 3.0, we're going to enable accessory developers to build custom apps that talk directly to that hardware.

Here's an example -- an FM transmitter. With 3.0, the dev can build a custom app that pairs up with it, and automatically finds the right station and tunes it in."

more exciting technologies and features included...
if 3.0 is out...the 2.0 application all cant use anymore , right?

"Here's an example -- an FM transmitter. With 3.0, the dev can build a custom app that pairs up with it, and automatically finds the right station and tunes it in."


OMG FM transmitter on iPhone

iPhone do indeed has hidden hardware that still wasn't discovered

EDIT : ahh, its the accessories they are saying about

This post has been edited by pipedream: Mar 18 2009, 01:24 AM

technically it got, but it is for nike+. but still abit unclear here. i think only for iphone-to-iphone via bt

pls pls gip me tethering, then i will restore back to 3.0 wihtout jb!!!

even if there is tethering it will only be available for AT&T only?

would love tethering thru bluetooth tho.

The reason why they don't do background processing is because it drains battery life... why don't they just improve the battery then .. haha

agreed with this statement. might the nex-gen iPhone has bigger capacity battery?

and finally, turn by turn navigation is here.

@geo-milano

Catch the live blog here.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/...os-30-event.ars

http://live.slashgear.com/

This post has been edited by davidgary73: Mar 18 2009, 01:29 AM

thanks allvin

isnt this wat beejive is doing?

@geo-milano:

were not informed when will the preview ends. it's just 30 minutes since the event started and the core capabilities of the OS is yet to be revealed (just started with Push Notifications).

This post has been edited by teikwing: Mar 18 2009, 01:34 AM

lol.. meebo.app

its like apple are focusin more on games n chat clients compared to essential apps like copypaste n such.

the sims

EA now have The sims.Wonder how it look like.

not tat.. it actually implement more necessary core features into iphone os.. however, those are pda features , instead of phone.

they haven't get into that i guess

those game and chat client thing very drain battery, it wont stand long and the iPhone ease to get heat. In fact the battery need to improve for more upcoming activities.

so its almost confirmed there is not gonna be any multitaskin or backgrounder..haha..