Apple has recently pushed out its iPhone 3.1 software for developers, just about two weeks after the iPhone OS 3.0 released. And now, we are talking about the next generation of Apple device: iPhone 4.0. What?!
Yes, that's revealed based on recent Apple patent fillings. Some new patent applications include event-based modes, scheduled and intelligent communications.
Event-based modes: As shown by above picture, your iPhone 4.0 device could be able to automatically adapt to different locations and life events and reconfigure it’s settings – e.g. switch the sound off and turn on a voicemail when calendar shows that you are in the meeting.
Scheduled communications: somewhat similar to the one above, but describes a way for you to automatically schedule/preset communications activities based on calendar events, your location, caller id and other conditions.
Intelligent communications: You can select appropriate communication modes for incoming communications requests based on a user’s preferences and availability. The device can determine the communication modes of a user based on the current activity and allow the user to provide customized information to his/her contacts.
[via Unwired View]
What does this have to do with iPhone 4.0? Nothing has been “revealed” here. Theyre just patents apple files for them all the time and never does anything. There is nothing concrete pointing to the fact this will be including in 4.0 or ANY future version of the OS.
@Mike You party pooper!
Not that I’m anti-Apple or anything (indeed, just bought my first Apple product, the iPhone 3GS) but the ability to adjust “profile” dependent on location, time, calendar entry, etc has been available to Symbian users via the Best Profiles app for sometime. Indeed, I’ve enjoyed this facility on my N95 and more recently N85 to ensure my phone switches into “silent” profile either when I am in a meeting as defined in my calednar or when I arrive at work and thus the device logs on to a specific limited number of local cell sites. Similarly, when I leave work and I exit the cell sites around my office, Best Profiles switched back to “general” profile so the ringer became active again.
Mind you, this isn’t the first time Apple have been slow to catch up. Cut, copy ‘n’ paste has been available on my Nokia devices for a while now as has MMS.
Yes, but the difference is that your laggy Nokias are powered by the worlds WORST mobile OS in existance, and… well, you don’t have an iPhone – Apple seem to implement these features FAR better, in a matter if months, than companies who have had them for years!.
It’s not JUST what you have, but also how you use it!.
:$$ oops sorry, yes you DO have an iPhone – sorry!.
Apple maybe implement features in a unique fashion… but in a matter of months??
How long did it take Apple to implement Cut and Paste / MMS / Video… hell even 3G for those original iPhone users. The iPhone is relatively not as good as it should be… The original iPhone should really have been the 3G S, but Apple is known for making money and releasing things slowly with major upgrades (3G… Video/Compass), so that you have to go out and buy a new phone, for the technology that was invented so long ago… just not incorporated initially, because Apple knows that its customers will go out and buy the latest greatest iPhone… so they do it this way to make more money… and yes I have an iphone 3g and upgraded to 3g s… but i think i’ll look to the jailbreak community which has been pushing key features to be included into the next iphone release..
@F
Apple could of released their iPhone with Cut, Copy’n'Paste and also MMS when they first released the iPhone if they wanted. It’s called planned obsolescence and every company does it, it’s to increase sales by adding new features every few months or even developing a new model all together, the iPhone 3GS for example.
Can they also release a firmware version that isn’t buggy? I mean common, the very moment I upgraded to 3.0 I had phantom email that don’t delete, battery life that declined by half, and overheating problems. Surely this release could’ve waited until these problems were ironed out? I’ve been told that it must be hardware related, but who the world knows for sure.
Oh yes and I must mention that the release of 3.1 so soon to beta implies that Apple developers screwed up by releasing 3.0 too early IMHO, you can take it or leave it.
Hmm, not entirely a new feature, but I will be interested to see how they will implement it.
Such features have been in Windows Mobile as well. It will automatically silent the phone when there’s a calendar event that says youre in a meeting.
I’m more interested in the second part of the images though, where it shows updates and status of your contacts.
What does “scheduled communication” is supposed to me? Call someone at preset time?
wen will apple relase multi tasking they should do it soon especilly with the palm pre with there features
Come on now. I see people arguing about implementation being better. It is the idea/ product that you patent. The user does not care about how the internals work. Its worse than the Indian cricket team ‘inventing’ the team hug.
Why are there two different sizes on the last image… it cant be the ipod touch because it hasnt got a speaker on the top side.
@Dirty Dawg-
3.0 is not buggy, at lease i’ve never seen a bug happen on my 3GS, and it is running 3.0.1
Destiny makes a good point. The two iphones are different sizes and proportions with the home buttons remaining the same size, maybe that’s a subtle leak of the iPhone nano?
You people are so stupid I saw those pics months and months ago, Those pics were leaked before the iphone 3g even came out.
Is it sad that the patent pictures look better than windows mobile?
hahahaha
The last image is two different illustrations joined together. Look at how the numbers that designate items on the left side phone overlap the right one, and are cut off. And the numbers at the top of the left phone are also cut in half.
It does not imply anything about a smaller iPhone.
I love how Apple fanboys accuse other companies of copying ideas Apple came up with, but fail to realize that Apple does the same thing. It’s called competition, and if a feature that someone came up with is favorable for consumers, competitors have the right to implement it as well. But, I will say though that PCs had right-click mouses for years, and Apple took forever to implement it despite it’s very wide and popular use. And you can’t say they waited to do it better…if anything Apple’s mighty mouses blow big time (non-ergonomic, awkward/accidental right clicks, microscopic middle mouse button…). So the next time a PC company “copies” a feature Apple “came up with”, don’t judge the PC company, perhaps they did it better, which helps make Apple step up their game, and vice-versa.
OS 3.0 is microsoft-products like, full of bugs, with security patches, waiting for developpers to improve it.
I have a 3GS and I can’t synchronize meeting or calendar with an exchange server while this feature worked perfectly on version 2. This is a well known issue, which will be normally fixed on version 3.1. Instead of installing new features and other stupid entertainments apple should vet what it put in production and ensure that basic functions; that an intelligent mobile device is supposed to have; are working fine.
It is well known that Apple released v3.0 and 3GS earlier than they wanted to so that they could preempt users from switching to the Palm Pre. This of course means that anyone switching to OS 3.0 before the first service patch should expect bugs and issues.
Anyone who works with computers knows that if you move to a new technology (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc) before SP1 is released you are doing so knowing there will be bugs. This appears to be more relevant for v3.0 because it was released early. Early release = more bugs.
Apple never released 3.1 fuckin idiot! its 3.0.1 not 3.1, that should come out sometime late September…
Next time get your info straight before confusing niggeas an ho’s…
@patrick
I love how you describe an Apple product as “microsoft-products like.” If the iPhone is glitching and having issues it’s APPLE LIKE BECAUSE IT IS AN APPLE PRODUCT. They aren’t perfect, even though their retarded commercials would lead you to believe so.
That being said, I’ve been loving my iPhone 3g that I got about a month ago. I haven’t had too many problems with 3.0.1, but it has been getting ridiculously hot at times and it will lock up for a few moments. My brothers and friends have experienced multiple total freezes. It might as well be the blue screen of death.
I love how everyone is bitching and moaning about Apple and its software glitches and releases that have bugs that are fixed in the next release… Where as Microsoft..well windows xp is not perfect, keeps patching itself, Windows Vista..the same…Windows Mobile.. the same.. and this has been going on for years and years…it will happen with sofware… people just need to get over it.
And yes, while Apple does take a little more time in implementing items that have been in othe phones earlier, they do a pretty darn good job of it when its done. I love my iphone, i’d be lost without it!
Anyone notice that it’s just like locale for android? Not complaining though.