Steve Jobs announces three new applications of iPhone 2.0: eBay, “loopt” and TypePad. eBay looks pretty cool, it lets you watch, bid, look at pics, etc. “loopt” shows your friends on a Google Map in relation to you, can see what your friends have been doing today (pictures, comments, etc.), and even it can use with your friends on other carriers, other OSes. TypePad will be available for free-Lets you blog easily on iPhone interface, use camera, post photos, post to different categories. The most important thing is they are all free.
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A certain, unnamed individual sent TUAW some pictures of the latest build of the iPhone firmware showing .Mac push e-mail. The picture shows the main Settings page with a new button: “Fetch new data.” When you click the button, you are taken to a list of your mail accounts, where you can choose between either “fetch” or “push.”
According to Mr. Anonymous, while .Mac is offering push e-mail, you are currently not able to do contact or calendar syncing.
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I found Apple offically add Chinese keyboard IME and handwriting recognition in iPhone 2.0(5A274d) lastest beta firmware. Does that mean Apple will go to China, the biggest mobile phone market in the world?
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More and more 3G iPhone photo appear, are they true or fake? 
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- White version 3G iPhone
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Apple will integrate Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) input into the iPhone. As you write the character, you are presented with a list of the possible characters on the right side of the input pane. The latest private beta of Apple’s upcoming iPhone Software v2.0 includes a handwriting recognition interface for the Chinese language, according to a new report.
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Anonymous reporter told TUAW that according to code found in the latest firmware release, Apple is working on a new iPhone application called iControl. Like Apple TV and other remote controllers, it would allow the iPhone to connect wirelessly to local iTunes libraries and browse through and play media from those sources.
TUAW is told that a media navigator will allow you to view videos, play podcasts, listen to music and even support shuffle playback. The screenshot shown here shows some of the localizable strings for the iPhone-based application. There’s obviously no timeline for release, but since the SDK event back in February, it’s been rumored that Apple would release some official iPhone apps of their own, and iControl might be the first.
Later, same person told TUAW a new XMPP framework has been spotten in the latest iPhone firmware. XMPP refers to the open source standard developed by the Jabber community for instant messaging. Remember back in March when Apple announced it would support native instant messaging? In a nutshell, it looks like Apple’s new iPhone-based chat will be built on Jabber/XMPP.
Unfortunately, we’re told that this XMPP support remains in a private framework and will not be available to 3rd party SDK developers. Apple has made a strong commitment to sand-boxed development, allowing developers little access to the underlying OS and frameworks. Single-purpose apps like games should thrive in this development environment while less bounded utilities like social networking apps may struggle–or at least have to depend strongly on web-based servers.
Apple released iPhone SDK build 9M2165 beta 4 today. “The fourth beta version of the iPhone SDK includes Xcode IDE, iPhone simulator with Open GL ES support, Interface Builder, Instruments, frameworks and samples, compilers, and Shark analysis tool.”, says by Apple Developer Connection. Full release notes you can find here: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/navigation/index.html
Some new features and information reported by TUAW readers:
New beta build is called 5A258f
SDK download is 1.15 GBs
Firmware sizes about 200+MB each for iPhone and iPod touch
Code signing is now ENFORCED by Apple.
SDK no longer uses the Aspen code name for the simulator.
Audio Toolbox got a big load of new stuff
NSXMLParser support
UIFont is re-done with ascender and other professional font support that has been long missing
There are definitely some very interesting methods added to UIApplication’s delegate, including methods for badging the Springboard icon, and methods related to gaining and resigning “active” status - seems like background apps may be permitted somehow.
Aidan Malley wrote in AppleInsider:
Apple has built in hooks for iPhone GPS features that aren’t possible with the current hardware, according to a third-party plug-in support for Aperture 2.1, Apple this week has released the Software Development Kit (500KB) for the photo management software.
The platform lets programmers write code that adds new features for editing and exporting images handled inside the program.
A number of extensions from outside companies have already been made available on Apple’s developer site for Aperture.
A Taiwan site, ePrince posts some awesome screenshots of (offical?) iPhone 2.0 firmware in Traditional Chinese interface. You can discover some new features from these screenshots.
The firmware version shows 2.0(5A225C)
There is a new version Cal with advanced function in landscape mode. And now, you can import contacts direct from your SIM card.
But there is still no AppStore in this version. On the other hand, Apple offer a new cool feature, you can uninstall application now.
More languages, but still no Chinese input method.
New layout of Setting interface, and an unknown icon in Calendar.
Apple final adds MS Exchange Mail support.
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Aidan Malley says on AppleInsider: “Apple has set the groundwork for instant messaging on the iPhone and other touchscreen devices with an application for a patent on a universal interface for real-time text chat services.”
Published in March, the USPTO filing describes an interface similar to the existing SMS (Short Messaging Service) text messaging interface for the iPhone, but with key changes.
Apple’s current chat format for SMS (left) and the patent’s alternate version (right).
Examples of composing a new message (left) or viewing chat history (right), both of which are found in existing iPhone software.
You can read the full article on the AppleInsider.
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