iPost 1.0
There is no better way to pay homage to Apple than to follow their quirky naming sense for this post. This is all about technology, people, and boy does it rock.
At this year’s WWDC, Apple announced the iPhone 3G S, Macbook Pro upgrades, Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard”, Safari 4 and iPhone 3.0 software upgrade. For all intents and purposes, I’m most interested in the iPhone, OS X and Safari 4 upgrades.
Let’s begin systematically, shall we?
iPhone 3.0
Those who know what a technophile I am would know that I hopped on the 3.0 beta bandwagon approximately a month and a half ago. Yes, I paid USD$99 for that privilege and I have never regretted it. I posted previously about my 3.0 trial and here are my findings:
- Spotlight search: hardly used (I imagine if I realised it was there, I’d use it more often)
- MMS: functionality was locked since Beta 5, so I haven’t been able to use it
- Internet tethering: where? (still unavailable with my official 3.0 firmware)
- Improved App Store: loved the ability to switch between my different iTunes Store accounts and getting different apps wirelessly… great upgrade
- Improved camera: although no changes hardware-wise, obviously, there’s an improvement in the quality of pictures
- Copy & paste, SMS forwarding: hardly used, but great improvements nonetheless; at least I know I have the capacity when I need them
App stability was sketchy. At the moment FML Pro continues to crash and there are still some issues after installing new apps. Hopefully these issues will be ironed out in future updates either of the apps in questions or a future firmware update.
Here’s a little aside on how I got MMS working on a non-official carrier in Singapore. Go to Settings > Network > Cellular Data and input the details for your carrier. After a rebooting the phone, you should get MMS in text messaging.
Let’s not pass any judgments on the conversation shall we?
Oh and Japanese emoji is available. At least it is on my iPhone. ;)
Official release date for the masses is 17th June.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
It seems that 10.6, which will be rolling out some time in September is only USD$29 for current Leopard users. That’s a pretty good offer since the upgrade comes ridiculously fast after Leopard’s release. I won’t go into details about it, except that it certainly looks promising, especially with the speed increases system-wide.
Read more about it @ Gizmodo.
Safari 4
I’ve just started using Safari 4 and I can honestly say I am blown away by the speed of pages loading. In addition the Top Sites window that opens each time you open a new tab, overall it’s pretty sweet.
I’m still experiencing the goodness of the update, so I’ll keep everyone updated.
I’d say WWDC 2009 was pretty fruitful on the Mac front.
