You don’t need a 3G S. The 3.0 update lets you play it on any iPhone 3G with the update, but unfortunately not on the first-generation, non-3G model.
Read this article for a review of how well it performs.
You don’t need a 3G S. The 3.0 update lets you play it on any iPhone 3G with the update, but unfortunately not on the first-generation, non-3G model.
Read this article for a review of how well it performs.
Yes, it has to be a stereo headset. Content from the iPod can’t be streamed to a mono headset. Only the phone audio works with mono.
According to the article I linked to:
So today I was engaged in an Epic Battle with the evil Want Monkey. Starting last night really, when he tried to force me to set my alarm clock for 6 AM so I could be at the Apple Store by 7 AM. I held him off then and even managed to counter his devious attempts to defeat me when I woke up this morning and was weakened and groggy. Throughout this morning he taunted, pleaded, begged, and argued with me until late into the afternoon. Sadly dear friends, he gained the upper hand around 3:30 PM and I was but a puppet under his control as I fought traffic to the AT&T store and found myself purchasing the 3GS.
Is the Want Monkey satisfied? Only momentarily. Already I hear him grumbling quietly in the corner…
Ummmmmm… MeanJoe I think I hate you.
I WANT WANT WANT this!
May the want monkey bankrupt you for this!
I hereby darn you to heck!
Don’t hate me… it is all the Want Monkey’s fault, he is EVIL I tells ya’!!!
MeanJoe - Who can’t help daydreaming a bit at the moment about streaming music over BlueTooth from his iPhone 3GS to the Clarion.
I really, really, really wanted a 3GS but I am going to hold off. I got my 3G on the third day of its release so I can’t get the good price until December at which point I’ll probably wait another six months for the next version which will have wonderful things that we can’t even imagine now.
On the other hand, I still have a 27" CRT TV. I made the mistake of walking into the new Best Buy in town and saw the not so bad prices for big ass LCD TVs these days. Want.
:: nods ::
Want Monkey does need to be squashed at times, and I think I found a good way to do it. I went to my friendly local Fido store, where I’d bought my original iPhone 3G, and asked about the possibility of an upgrade to a 3G S. Alas, I was ineligible. Then the salesperson offered to sell me one at the convenient full unsubsidized price of $800. This caused Want Monkey to shriek silently in the back of my head and curl up in a little ball. I think he’s hiding in a grotto somewhere in my brainstem.
That’s the thing about Want Monkey. He doesn’t do well in the harsh light of day. Like his brother Lust Monkey, he’s an innocent creature who knows nothing of practicalities or social conventions or the need to pay the rent. He simply wants.
And the worst thing about it? Because of the unexpected shock of finding out the unsubsidized price, I forgot to ask about getting my plan altered to include tethering and MMS…
Sunspace MMS will not be in place until late Summer, whenever that is. That’s the latest from ATT. Tethering is one of those, it will… Someday… Really… It will… things right now. Trust me on this. I work for ATT Mobility.
Sunspace is on Fido, not AT&T and I am on Rogers , which are both the same company and unless he is talking about a value plan ,MMS is available right now .
I know cuz i sent and recieved one when I got the 3.0 upgraded os
Declan
:: nods :: Fido customer since 1997 (the first payday after Fido opened their GSM network here in Toronto, to be precise; I think it was in July).
I got a text message on Tuesday afternoon, soon after the iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade was released, stating “NEW tethering feature available with iPhone software upgrade. Data add on of 1GB or more needed to tether. Visit fido.ca/tethering for more.”
Looking through the somewhat-confusing welter of plans, there’s a $75/month iPhone plan that includes 1 GB of data per month, or I could add that on separately for $35/month.
Also, 100 MMS messages per month is a $5/month addon to my plan.
It seems that if you’re not on a plan that gives you a certain number of MMS messages per month, they’re fifty cents each to send, and free to receive (while I’m in Canada).
When I opened the SMS application, there was a little camera icon next to the field for typing in text. I press it and I get a choice of “take photo” or “choose existing”. If I take a picture, it adds the picture to the message input field above the text area. If I choose existing, it opens the Camera Roll and I can choose a picture, which then appears in the message input field.
My friend didn’t get the one I sent him, but was confused by the content of the regular message I sent afterwards. I’ll have to find out whether his Blackberry and plan can receive them.
I just discovered that you can send an audio clip via MMS as well! Oddly, there is no indication of this from within the Messages app (which is what the SMS app is now called). You have to start the Voice Recorder app, then create or choose a voice recording. There’s a choice to send it via MMS or email, and if you choose MMS it appears in the MMS app in exactly the same way that the picture does.
Are you sure that they are free to recieve ? I still have to look into that , since I am paying to recieve sms messages,actually I would have to look at my plan again to see what exactly it does cover, but in anycase, I would find it hard to understand that they would charge nothing to recieve a mms.
Declan
You always could send an audio message through MMS , I was doing it on WinMos for the longest time, I can imagine that if it was not Multi-media messaging and strictly picture messaging, then it would probably be called PMS. lol.
Declan
Free to receive for the moment on Fido, anyways…
The iPhone is the first device I’ve had that supported MMS, so it’s all new to me.
I had no plans whatsoever of making any purchases yesterday.
And I had happily downloaded the new firmware on Thursday evening (a business trip kept me from my Mac, so I couldn’t do so earlier).
But…
I left work early with no major plans in mind, and just happened to be driving near the AT&T store. It happened.
I am stoked. The differences between 1st generation and 3GS are totally worth it. The device absolutely flies compared to the old one. Surfing with 3g seems faster than surfing with wifi was on the old device. The other stuff like GPS and the better camera are just icing on the cake.
Voice command is very cool too—my address book has hundreds of names in it, so it is very nice to be able to say “call Joe Cool” and have the phone do so.
Spotlight search access and copy/paste finally gave my phone the egregiously absent features that were on my Treo years ago.
I am really liking the cut and paste as well. Apple found a rather elegant way to do it.
Anyone else notice the new subtle diagonal striping on the background of some of the icons? The Phone, iPod, and Messages icon, in particular, have it. And if you look closely at the grey dots at the bottom on the screen, which turn white to show you which screen of icons you are on, the leftmost one is a tiny magnifying glass. That’s the Search screen, of course.
m7fl5, did you have the original “2G” iPhone from two years ago?
I’m probably going to have to get the 3GS; the wifi died on my 1st-gen iPhone, and I find EDGE to be a little lacking in comparison (not to mention, no cell reception at work, so I relied on the wifi there).
Here’s a random question; now that we can rent/buy movies directly from the iPhone, can you start watching a movie as soon as it begins downloading? I can see myself sitting in an airport with free wifi and getting a hankering to watch an episode of 30 Rock, but it would kind of defeat the purpose if I couldn’t watch it instantly.
Also, to people who have had the iPhone 3G for a while, does the back get scratched up easily? I’ll kind of miss the nice-looking aluminum back on my current iPhone.
He said that he had a 2G (first generation) phone. I can see how that would be a tremendous difference. The 3G -> 3Gs is probably less of a difference. I’m really interested in hearing from people who went from 3G to 3Gs.