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3G iPhone Information

This is a combination of Mac Rumors and Engadget Coverage. Please visit these sites for full coverage.

• 1) 3G network support 2) Enterprise support 3) Third party application support 4) More countries (joking about unlocked iPhones in countries not officially supported) 5) More affordable
• We’ve learned so much with the first iPhone. We’ve taken everything we’ve learned and more and created the iPhone 3G. It’s beautiful. This is what it looks like. “Black back! “Thinner at the edges. Full plastic back, it’s really nice
• Solid metal buttons, the same gorgeous 3.5-inch display, camera
• Flush headphone jack.
• Improved audio
• How does it look?
  
• We took two other 3G phones — the iPhone 3G is 36% faster than the nokia N95 and Treo 750 — and look at the result you get, by the way! Full page on the iPhone, and quite a bit less on the other phones
• 3G has great battery life on iPhone. 300 hours of standby, 2G talk-time now has 10 hours (as opposed to 5), 5 hours of 3G talk-time (most phones only have 3 hour 3G talk time), 5 to 6 hours of high-speed browsing, 7 hours of video, 24 hours of audio.
• Location services is going to be a really big deal on the iPhone — you saw a bit of that here today, it’s going to explode. We get location from celltowers, from WiFi, and now we get it from GPS.” So that’s A-GPS. “We can actually do tracking.
• Enterprise support: as we explained earlier, full Exchange support. All secure VPN, everything everyone’s asked for is built-in. We’re on exactly the right track, we can now check off enterprise support. Third party apps — the SDK, you saw the great apps, and we’ve got the best way to distro them
• Showing all the countries, playing Small World — most of South America… Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Czech, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Malta, Croatia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Kenya, Botswana, South Africa… man, way too many countries!
• We think the iPhone 3G will be affordable to almost everyone. 16GB model for $299 — for that model we have a white one
• The iPhone 3G will be available July 11th in 22 countries. The maximum price around the world is $199 USD. Now showing an ad.
• The price is a maximum of $199 all around the world — we’re really, really excited about the new iPhone 3G. And as you might expect,

Specs from Apple Store:

What’s in the Box

* iPhone 3G
* Stereo headset with mic
* USB power adapter
* Dock Connector to USB cable
* Documentation
* Cleaning/polishing cloth
* SIM ejector tool

Specifications

Screen size 3.5 inches (diagonal)
Screen resolution 480 by 320 pixels (163 ppi)
Input method Multi-Touch
Storage 8GB and 16GB1
Cellular
UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
Wireless data
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g)
UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

Other 3G iPhone specs

GPS Assisted-GPS
Camera 2.0 megapixels
Battery2
Talk time: Up to 5 hours on 3G;
up to 10 hours on 2G
Standby time: Up to 300 hours
Internet use: Up to 5 hours on 3G;
up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback: Up to 7 hours
Audio playback: Up to 24 hours
Dimensions
4.5 by 2.4 by 0.48 inches
(115.5 by 62.1 by 12.3 mm)
Weight3
4.7 ounces (133 grams)

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iPhone 2.0 API and Updates

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• With the SDK in iPhone 2.0 we’re opening the same native APIs and tools we use internally… that means you as a dev can build apps for the iPhone the same way we do. Let’s start by talking about the APIs. The APIs and frameworks on the iPhone share extensively with OS X.
• We top it all off with Cocoa Touch — our UI object oriented framework, which makes building an app for our full screen touch interface an absolute breeze. We have a great set of APIs. On top of this we have a really powerful set of tools.
• Steve Jobs displaying how easy it is to create a UI by dragging in interface elements and combining them, using Cocoa Touch
• I want to concentrate on how we construct a UI…” making an app called Nearby Friends. Accesses the contacts database and Core Location to filter all contacts with contacts within 10mi. Building the UI with Interface Builder. Dragging and dropping interface elements.
• Sega showing Super Monkey Ball again, but now with over 100 levels. Playing through the last world, which demonstrates how well the tilt-control works Available at the launch of the App Store for $9.99. More Games for the iPhone.
• eBay. Demonstrating Auctions on the iPhone that began development just 5 weeks ago. Incorporates much of the typical eBay functionality. The app’s main screen allows you to quickly view the auctions you’ve listed, have bid on, or have been out-bid on. Also includes a custom photo viewer.
• Loopt, a location-aware social network. The app displays a map with pins representing where your friends currently are. Loopt will be free on the App Store at launch. User profiles show a log of where the person has been and the photos they’ve sent in. It’s easy to call or text them as well. Works with Loopt users on other platform
• TypePad. Their native app makes it very simple to blog or send in a photo. The photo can be taken right then using the camera, or be selected from the gallery.
• Pangea Software. They have ported 2 games to the iPhone. The first game is Enigmo, which is a physics-based game. Makes advanced use of the touch controls as well as the CPU. The second game is Cro-Mag Rally, which is a 3D racing game — the iPhone itself is the steering wheel. Both games will be on the App Store at launch for $9.99 each. Next — Band, written by an independent developer from the UK
• Moo Cow Music, it’s called Band, a collection of virtual instruments for creating music from scratch. Band includes a virtual piano, drums, 12-bar blues “instrument”, and a bass. All of the instruments sound very impressive and what you play can be recorded. showing a piano, and what do you know, it’s better than the multi-touch piano they showed at D with Windows 7. They played a riff from Lennon’s “Imagine”
• MLB.com. The app shows today’s games with live, detailed scoring. It also includes real-time video highlights, which are delivered right after the play — not the game. It will be included in the launch of the App Store. Showing latest scores, real-time video highlights from every game!
• The first is a learning application for remembering the names of parts of the body. They will have dozens of apps available within weeks of the App Store launch. The second medical app is from MIMvista. The MIMvista application is for viewing medical imagery. Takes advantage of the touch screen to change the information shown, zoom in and out, and scroll around. The images can be rendered in 3D live too. The app will be available at the launch of the App Store. The last demo comes from Digital Legends.
• Digital Legends Entertainment… they only started two weeks ago. Looks a little like God of War, graphics somewhere between DS and PSP. Pretty friggin’ impressive. N-GAGE has been after games that look this good for years. Will be ready by September.
• That was all running on an iPhone! And they had two weeks. One of the most fun parts about building a platform like iPhone 2.0 is seeing the innovation that comes from our developers.

iPhone IM

• There has been one feature request that doesn’t currently exist… it’s mainly come from clients like IM, where by their very nature they want to get a notification even if the user isn’t running the app. We absolutely want to solve this problem, the question is how
• When the user quits the application, Apple will push updates from their servers to the iPhone. The developer’s servers push the notifications to Apple. These updates can include badges, sounds, and custom messages. This requires just one persistent connection and is extremely scalable.
• When the user quits the application, Apple will push updates from their servers to the iPhone. The developer’s servers push the notifications to Apple. These updates can include badges, sounds, and custom messages. This requires just one persistent connection and is extremely scalable. This functionality won’t be available until September, but will be seeded to developers soon.

iPhone 2.0 will be available in early for July. Free for iPhone owners, $9.99 for iPod Touch owners.

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With lots of speculation as to what Steve Jobs will be announcing on June 9th (next week) it seems that rumors are floating around that this will be the new iPhone with 3G, GPS and other capabilities. We have also heard of a lower price 1st generation iPhone to hit the market and be in the $200 range for people not wanting to upgrade.

What we are most curious about at Mobile Video Streaming Project (MVSP) is whether this new 3g iPhone will support rtsp Protocol, which is the Protocol for created for streaming videos real time from the web.

The first generation iPhone as we all now didn’t support this, which was a big pain in the *ss for some people who run mobile video sites. It’s not to say that you couldn’t stream video to the iPhone it was just a differnt process and we have described on our site in other posts.

We will be earerly waiting in line to get one of the new next generation iPhone and test this out. We would love to encode our videos at a higher bit rate for people using the 3G network. Speaking of the 3G network from AT&T, the coverage seems to be pretty good here in the Bay Area, but the question is are they ready for thousands of 3G iPhone users streaming data , surfing the web with out crippling the network? We will see.

Keep an eye out on this site next week from some of our results or as soon as we can get one of the new iPhones.

Btw if your a iPhone developer please contact us, we are looking for someone to create a player for our site.

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One of my favorite sites with short 5 minute clips that showcase the best how to, instructional and DIY videos has been added to our mobile video streaming site mvstreamer.mobi, point your iPhone or mobile phone that can stream video to mvstreamer.mobi, if you know of any other sites you would like to see on our mobile video streaming system just drop us a note or add a comment to the post.

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I just wanted to let everyone know we added “this WEEK in TECH” to our iPhone version of mvstreamer.mobi. I had a few email communications with Leo Laporte and asked him If I could add his weekly audio podcast to our line up of shows on our site.

After a few exchanges of emails Leo gave us the go ahead and now you can list to “this WEEK in TECH” if you point your iPhone to http://mvstreamer.mobi and select the audio section. Leo Also mentioned that you can also listen to the feed on TWiT.TV as well.

Just a small update for this week, we are working on some more advanced features for both the mobile phone and iPhone versions of mvstreamer.mobi, keep you eye out and spread the word.

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Ok everyone over the holidays I decided to work on a iPhone version of Mvstreamer.mobi, you can now stream podcasts such as diggnation, ask a ninja, tiki bar, pete tong and many more podcasts to your iPhone. This works best over Wifi and while EDGE does work at times its really slow and can take a while to load. Until the iPhone hops on the 3g bandwagon your pretty much limited to sub par video streaming how ever we have done our best to optimize the video as best as possible, while not the greatest we found that it does work.

Point your iPhone over to http://mvstreamer.mobi and your phone should be detected and display the iPhone streaming version. Please note this is in beta and we are still working on a few bugs. We always welcome feedback and if their is a podcast show you would like us to add to the system feel free to drop us a line.

Happy iPhone Podcast streaming well over Wifi for now, but if your patient you can go to the EDGE

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While working on my side video projects to get shows streaming on most phones with a semi decent 3g connection, we have added most of revision 3 shows and the new show Tekzilla.

Info about the show:

Embrace digital technology. Join the Tekzilla crew and make your tech work better for you. Or you can go live in the woods with an axe. Every Friday Jessica Corbin and Patrick Norton deliver product reviews, computer help, tech tips on everything from iPods to camcorders, HD to the Internet, plus do it yourself projects.

We are also working on our iPhone streaming system and if any php or perl programmers can help donate some programming time it would be greatly appreciated.

So point your mobile phone that has video streaming abilities to mvstreamer.mobi and enjoy the shows. Feedback welcome.

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After doing some tests and reading some blog posts about the iPhone, someone pointed out to me a link which if you go to it on your iPhone http://www.apple.com/trailers/iphone/ you will see the same trailer page as normally on your PC but when you click on a trailer you get a iPhone formatted page (example). Now when clicking on the trailer at the top on the iPhone it launches the video player that the iPhone uses and the video start streaming in (if your on wifi).

Of course this is pretty neat especially if your connected to a wifi hotspot but doing any sort of streaming over EDGE (at least from our tests) things are slow, buffering, hangs in the trailer etc. If you want to stream over EDGE your going to greatly reduce your quality event to the point where your seeing just a macro block slide show with lots of latency/buffering.

I put together a iPhone demo page to test out a video I encoded here. I recommend loading this on wifi connection, but would be curious to see how it runs on EDGE for some people.

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After doing many tests with my buddy who has an iPhone I was unable to get any sort of streaming working via the Safari browser.

I have encoded and tested the following:

mpeg4 + aac (hinted non hinted)

• doesn’t work via DSS or direct html link Safari doesn’t understand RTSP and http:// linked videos it wants to load into memory.

h264 + aac (hinted non hinted)

• doesn’t work via DSS or direct html link Safari doesn’t understand RTSP and http:// linked videos it wants to load into memory.

Asking my buddy to visit m.youtube.com via safari and test a video from the page also doesn’t work for him either.

Error: safari can’t open the page because the address is invalid

So, unless you can develop your own custom application like the youtube one right now looks like we are out of luck.

User Agent String for iPhone is:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3

If anyone comes up with a solution I would love to hear it.

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Today is the day when people line up to get the next generation in mobile phones. iPhone hysteria is on the loose and you cant escape hearing about iPhones in the news and on the net. I wont be getting an iPhone any time soon esp since It would require me to break my Sprint contract and go with Cingular/AT&T and loose my beloved EDVO data speeds to EDGE.

With all of that said anyone who has an iPhone would you please visit the best video sites and test out a few videos at http://mvstreamer.mobi .

I’m also looking for any videos encoded for the iPhone so I can add in streaming support for iPhone users. I don’t expect this to look nice since the video specs are 320×240 or 640×480 at EDGE data rates which isn’t great and not to mention the latency issue. I will be adding bigger video sizes soon but don’t expect any miracles for those screen sizes, getting a good looking qcif video at the current data rates on EDGE is tough enough with out turning it into a blocky slide show.

iPhone Specs from Apple:

Video formats supported: H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 768 Kbps, 320 by 240 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

UPDATE: My buddy is in line for his iPhone so Ill be able to do some tests soon, but I would still like to hear from other iPhone users.

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