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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!!
Details at 11.
Important update: Its version number is 1 higher than the old one!
I read the internet for the articles.
...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.
I can't wait for Mac OS XI: This one goes to eleven!
English is not this
The only thing that could make this, like, even more awesome is if it were being used by Britney Spears!!!!!!11!
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
...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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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".
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
That should be a comma in ("iPhone %d,%d",majorversionnumber,minorversionnumber), not a period.
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How can you not care? It's so shiny :)
Summation 2
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.
Multitasking for one. If you are in Skype and want to run another program, you can forget about it with the current iPhones.
Valkyrie is about to die! Wizard needs food -- badly!
I sure as fuck don't.
OOOh! Technology, apathy and profanity -- all rolled into one little golden nugget!
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Former iPhones were labeled like this:
* Original iPhone = 1,1
* iPhone 3G = 1,2
* iPhone 3GS = 2,1
For XI, they are using dogs, not cats, as code names. Performance is better, but sleep support doesn't work as well...
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who cares?
I sure as fuck don't.
Oh, boo hoo. It's Slashdot's fault you couldn't scroll past the story instead of spending 20 seconds plus CAPTCHA to say you don't care. I don't like FireFox, Windows 7, or Google, so I'm going to go into their threads and post that I don't care and get modded up for it.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
*double checks URL he typed in*
Yeah it says http://slashdot.org/ ... thought maybe I'd typed macrumors
No sig for you!!
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"
This isn't a user agent string. This is a hardware model identifier. Apple hardware has an identifier in the ROM so that you can find out what hardware you're running on in software. Here are some examples of why you'd want to do that:
MacPro 1,1: First generation Mac Pro (only has 16-lane PCI-e)
MacBookPro 1,1: First generation MacBook Pro (Intel Core Duo, not Intel Core2 Duo with SSE4)
MacPro 3,1: Third generation Mac Pro (32-lane PCI-e, quad core Nehalem Xeons)
iPhone 2,1: Hardware compass, etc. etc.
Get it?
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
So when do we see an iPhone 3.11 for workgroups?
FFS - we do expect certain standards here. And if that's too much to ask, at least a little self-respect from Taco. Fanboism is one thing, but posting this on main page?
Slashdot is ad-driven. Bitching about a story is supporting the story. Ask where it's helpful to ask instead of asking where the opposite of what you want will happen. There are far too many stories about Google here for you to not understand how this works.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
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?
Um, start your own fucking site?
Slashdot has ALWAYS been about things of personal interest to the editors. We have a LEGO icon, FFS, why? Because one of the founders likes Lego stories. And I'm fine with that.
Don't like it, GTFO, instead of bitching about how you feel entitled to have your "standards" met.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
Yeah, but if you have to read literally daily stories about one of those products, no matter how trivial (in this case, a non-news item based on rumour, that even if it was true, tells us nothing other than the bleeding obvious that they are developing new products), you might get annoyed, or simply wonder why such disproportionate advertising was being given to them.
Yeah, I know, I was one of the people bitching about the constant Mozilla posts on Slashdot many moons ago. My bitching didn't work.
I can see it now: "New Opera user agent string spotting in field testing!" Is that news, do you think?
Get enough Opera enthusiasts actively perusing the site and, sorry to tell you this, but yes, front-page material. Slashdot runs on ad-views. That's why we also were presented with stories about installing Linux on a dead badger, fictional tales of Microsoft throwing Sony out of a trade show, and Ask Slashdot articles for people who don't know how to use Google. You're not going to like hearing this, but there are a number of people on this site interested in what Apple's going to do next. Same is true for anything Google does and anything Microsoft does. (Not sure why marketshare has anything to do with that, even people who hate Microsoft post in Microsoft threads.)
I'll summarize my point for you. Bitching doesn't discourage Slashdot from posting the stories. Meanwhile, you're being fed stories you care about that others don't. Life's unfair. Boo hoo.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
If this new version supports copy and paste finally
iPhone OS 3.1 supports copy-and-paste. Heck, iPhone OS 3.0 supports copy-and-paste. Presumably iPhone 3,1 will run iPhone OS 3.x or a future release, and will support copy-and-paste, just as every other damn iPhone on the planet running iPhone OS 3.x supports it, even my old iPhone 1,0 or whatever the first one was.
(I.e.: 1) "supports copy and paste" is a function of the OS rather than the device and 2) the OS has supported it since the 3.0 release. 3.x also supports MMS on 3G iPhones if the phone company allows it.)