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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".
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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.
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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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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?
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So when do we see an iPhone 3.11 for workgroups?
Um, start your own fucking site?
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