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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Tech iPhone 3.0 Drops... Now.

Posted by Anthony Hecht on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:35 AM

e179/1245260054-picture_2.png Attention people who care: The iPhone 3.0 software update—featuring long-awaited features like copy and paste, landscape keyboards, the potential for MMS and tethering if you're lucky enough not to be enslaved to the dark forces at AT&T, and a bunch of other crap—is available now.

Please proceed to bring down Apple's software update servers.

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I love the new iPhone - it lets me find the nearest Tukwilla station of ST LINK to join the mile-long club, and it shows me vids of President Obama giving same-sex couples health care rights.

Only problem seems to be on the SLOG page - it shows President Obama on the Enemies of SLOG side, think maybe it doesn't work well with SLOG.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on June 17, 2009 at 10:40 AM

@1: *rolling eyes*

I'm updating currently and starting to get more and more worried that it's not going to be able to finish before apple crashes down.

Posted by Carollani

on June 17, 2009 at 10:43 AM

I went with the $49 Unlimited Any Time plan from Virgin mobile. Got a JAX phone for $14 and hooked it up -- web, music, video...spectacular.

My last phone was stolen at Westlake Plaza along with my netbook by a white male early 20s at 6pm wearing a red and grey pullover shirt.

Posted by Overpriced Crap on June 17, 2009 at 11:02 AM

wOOt

Posted by Violet_DaGrinder

on June 17, 2009 at 11:13 AM

"The dark forces of AT&T" is right. God, I hate those motherfuckers.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on June 17, 2009 at 11:23 AM

i hate comcast more than at&t

Posted by Max Solomon on June 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM

@2 You actually read his comments? As soon as I see that icon I scroll right past.

Posted by Sea J on June 17, 2009 at 11:27 AM

You can jailbreak to enable MMS and tethering, even on AT&T.

Posted by ser on June 17, 2009 at 11:32 AM

I have never understood why this "landscape keyboard" thing was not included in the original OS. It is not a very large leap either technically or conceptually. I am fairly sure they kept this out on purpose to include as a carrot in a later release. Apple is occasionally looking more and more like MS these days. Sigh.

Posted by seattlebikeguy on June 17, 2009 at 11:38 AM

@7, Amen.

@9, I guess they just didn't expect so many of their users to have such fat fingers. As a person with smaller hands, I'm probably never going to use the landscape keyboard since the placement of the buttons makes typing slower and it covers up too much of the screen.

Posted by Andy on June 17, 2009 at 11:57 AM