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iPhone 3.1 Spotted In Field Testing
kai_hiwatari writes "Digitizor reports that the next generation of the iPhone was spotted in the analytics log of an iPhone app called iBart. The device, it seems, was identified as iPhone 3.1 in the log. When iPhone 2.1 was spotted, it was followed by iPhone 3G."
Company is developing follow-up product to an existing successful product!!
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Important update: Its version number is 1 higher than the old one!
I read the internet for the articles.
New phones are in the works from RIM, Nokia, HTC, and lots of other companies all the time.
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...if Apple WEREN'T bringing out a new iPhone sometime next year. An annual cycle is predictable; some manufacturers would consider it TOO long between launches.
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With more and more providers getting the iPhone, it seems like Apple just isn't feeling exclusive enough. Time to make a new version.
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...at MacRumors. Relevant quote:
References to "iPhone3,1" was first discovered in the iPhone firmware files back in August, but this seems to be the first time that it has been spotted "in the wild". Apple similarly began testing the iPhone 3GS (iPhone2,1) back in October of 2008 about 8 months ahead of its launch. At the time, the usage was similarly focused in the San Francisco Bay Area where Apple is located.
So, if history repeats itself, the actual product will be released sometime in April or May.
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I sure as fuck don't.
That's certainly a nice little news tidbit, but there's not much more to say. I'm an Apple fan, but really it would be more newsworthy if they announced no more phones and then something new was seen. I think everyone knows they are going to be coming out with a new one at regular intervals. If we had a section for 'News Headlines that are Their Own Articles' this would go there.
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Apple's cycle is well known.
But could this mean that it should be amended?
For example, with a new, secondary, starting point such as: "An obscure software developer spots references to what could conceivably be a next version of Apple hardware in one of its logs".
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That should be a comma in ("iPhone %d,%d",majorversionnumber,minorversionnumber), not a period.
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Soon I will be able to build a skyscraper with all of my iPhones.
The summary says, "The last time when iPhone 2.1 was spotted, it was followed by iPhone 3G."
But the version numbers actually are:
iPhone: 1,1
iPhone 3G: 1,2
iPhone 3GS: 2,1
The mistake in the summary isn't a big deal. But it does go into the big pile of little mistakes that we see all the time around here.
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Ah, yes... the "Bubastis" release... Never go for the first released revision, though, it tends to have a way of falling apart on you. Wait for the dot-one version, "Nuku-Nuku". That one will be a lot more reliable.
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Multitasking for one. If you are in Skype and want to run another program, you can forget about it with the current iPhones.
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Former iPhones were labeled like this:
* Original iPhone = 1,1
* iPhone 3G = 1,2
* iPhone 3GS = 2,1
So if i set my firefox useragent as iPhone/Tablet 5.0 and start visiting iPhone related sites a lot of noise will be generated?
Announcing that they are looking specially to an info so easily modified is a good recipe for unfounded hype.
It's a false limitation though. The software & hardware is completely capable, Apple just doesn't allow it for third party apps. (the first party apps like the Phone & iPod multitask just fine).
I agree though, there are certain apps which definitely need to be allowed to run in the background like Skype and Pandora.
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They could back key features they pulled a bait and switch on (tethering) and not only that they could open it up a bit, since power users jailbreak them anyhow, and preventing hacking is nearly impossible. Someone somewhere will crack it when they have unfettered physical access. Somehow I don't think they're going to take the steps required to prevent hacking, i.e., require iPhone owners to use their phones under supervision at Apple stores and not let customers take them outside the store. ;)
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Yeah it says http://slashdot.org/ ... thought maybe I'd typed macrumors
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that iBart is "spying" sorry "analytics" on its users by sending who-knows-what-else data
to a third party
if this behaviour was on Windows app it would be condemmed instantly
and users would demand they stop it
i wonder how many other of the iPhone apps spy on its "users"
And also, they have introduce a snob-meter, a first and long awaited feature.
A little more ram might be nice. I notice if I have push alerts enabled on certain apps, or any task basically sitting in the background (an alarm or something) the phone gets a little sluggish, and this is on the "fast" 3GS.
I'd also like to see a higher-res OLED screen.
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It worries me a lot that random iPhone apps are allowed to phone home with this kind of data, especially after that story a while back where the user's phone number was being sent in order to spam call them.
There seems to be a lot of protection for Apple (against jailbreaking or doing anything they or the carrier does not authorise) and pretty much none for the user.
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I hope they're not running the site on the iPhone itself :)
Couldn't they just make OSX longer?
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The 3GS had an oleophobic screen you didn't have to clean quite as often. I however seriously doubt they're going to finish development on, test, announce and ship a new iPhone before Christmas.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
So what are the odds that this is a falsified user agent and that someone with a jailbroken iPhone is having a good laugh at this article?
So when do we see an iPhone 3.11 for workgroups?
The sad thing is they'd probable still sell. Albeit not as well.
What's more interesting, is that probably thousands of rumor site addicts are now checking out iBart (I know I just did). That's the real news in this story: a lot of iPhone programmers are now going to let their app phone home with as many details about the device as possible hoping to get a scoop out with their app's name!
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The tethering issue is not bait and switch, at least not from Apples end. Non at&t iPhones have tether. It's a Carrier Limitation, not a hardware limitation. Much like what VZW typically does to bluetooth file transfer OBEX's on many phones.
at&t Mobility never indicated that it would ever allow teathering on the iPhone before or after release. The evade the topic simply by saying that it may at some point provide a teather plan such as they do on other devices, including giving a pricing structure to such a hypothetical plan.
So, any bait and switch on at least this feature is based on the assumption that a feature would be enabled from the carrier.
And no, I don't work for at&t and I have a mifi-2200 from VZW for my "teather" needs since it works well with my iPhone as a backup data connection (which I need regularly due to the crappy at&t coverage in my area).
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I've read the rumor mills. The one thing I'm not seeing there is the distinct possibility that 3,1 may not include a increase or change in functionallity. With at&t's exclusivity ending, 3,1 could simply be the major hardware rev to include CDMA in the product line?
I gave up on waiting for apple to get off the schnide and make the one change they desperatly need to make; ditch at&t. Got my droid a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier.
Verizon seems to be the smartphone thunderdome, and i'd love to see apple come in and kick some windows mobile and blackberry ass, but they are apparently content to hang out in the at&t sandbox. I'd be posting this from an iphone instead of a droid if apple would commit to a decent network. Maybe in 2 years they'll have gotten the hint that exclusivity hurts in the long run.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Being the cynic I am, am wondering if the next gen iPhone will be designed with a TPM-like chip to protect against jailbreaking. Instead of spending money on that, I wish Apple would put their dough on other features that people would like. Imagine how useful the functionality of a Novatel Mifi would be in an iPhone. Just set a long WPA2 passphrase, plop phone on table (or some place where it isn't easily snatched up by a passerby), and fire up the laptop for a decent Internet connection. Even more exotic would be a baby RADIUS server for even more fine grained security.
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Being the cynic I am, am wondering if the next gen iPhone will be designed with a TPM-like chip to protect against jailbreaking. Instead of spending money on that, I wish Apple would put their dough on other features that people would like. Imagine how useful the functionality of a Novatel Mifi would be in an iPhone. Just set a long WPA2 passphrase, plop phone on table (or some place where it isn't easily snatched up by a passerby), and fire up the laptop for a decent Internet connection. Even more exotic would be a baby RADIUS server for even more fine grained security.
Wireless hotspot would be cool functionality, and should be theoretically doable on the platform if jailbroken anyway so adding it should be easy.
However, being the cynic I am, at&t would strip that in a heart beat just as they did tether functionality.
Really? This has got to be the dumbest, most pointless story (and I use the term lightly) I have ever read on here.
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Couldn't they just make OSX longer?
Once Apple gets to OS X v.10.9.9, they'll be going hexadecimal with the next version: OS X v.B.0.
This ain't rocket surgery.
All I see here is a story about a foolish developer who decided it was smarter to let slip that they are mining their usage logs looking for "interesting" stuff like this, when they should probably keep their mouths shut if they plan on misusing people's (or, for that matter, a company's) personal data.
Since the upgrade from 2.5G to 3G apparently only justified the bump from 1,1 to 1,2, I'd guess that just the change of the radio to CDMA should not justify a bump from 2,1 to 3,1.
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Multitasking for one. If you are in Skype and want to run another program, you can forget about it with the current iPhones.
*cough* Backgrounder in Cydia *cough*
Indeed.
When they finally release a product, then it may be worthy of a story. And I say may - note that most released phones never get any stories on Slashdot, even those from well known companies with far bigger market share (Nokia, Samsung, - well just about all of them, actually). Yet when it comes to Apple, with just a few per cent market share with their previous products, it's now news because some random guy saw something in his logs?
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