The iPhone 3.0 operating system release will include new support for direct downloads of movie and TV content from the iTunes Store, according to people familiar with Apple’s internal training materials. Last week, a Salon blogger covered initial reports of a new iTunes Store interface for downloading movies and TV directly on the iPhone, including [...]

So far, there are no changes to the Maps application for the iPhone. There are some other features that include maps that are new to the 3.0 Firmware though. First, developers can now integrate Google Maps into their application. This is part of the new developer APIs in the 3.0 Software Developer Kit. This should [...]

Can you feel that? That electricity in the air? Yes, it means that the final release of iPhone OS 3.0 is closer than ever, and here is iPhone beta 5 — which is build 7A312g – to illustrate it. And of course, it comes with a new beta of the SDK and iTunes 8.2. We [...]

The iPhone’s camera resolution leaves much to be desired, but there’s more to image quality than just resolution. And according to one series of tests, the firmware 3.0 is taking better photos than its predecessor. Take a took at these side by side photos with new iPhone firmware and old iPhone firmwaretaken by iPhones.ru. That [...]

The iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 arrived just a little later than expected – but it’s still good to see it, and nice to see that the pattern of a new beta release every two weeks is continuing at a steady pace. This has been reported by several sites now. Some have only had the [...]

Now you can download the third iPhone 3.0 OS beta right now if you’re a paid iPhone developer, and it fixes a few things. From iPod Touch Fans (a blog/website), it seems like speed improvements, spotlight search saving, and minor MMS changes for German networks are the substantive changes, so not a huge patch so [...]

The second iPhone 3.0 Beta is now available, and developers can go download it immediately from Apple’s iPhone dev page. Good news for all iPhone users. A developer reader on another blog reports that it does feel much snappier, especially in the scrolling area. He also says that there’s a new Store area in the [...]

This could easily get pushed aside before release, but OS 3.0 beta users can download >10MB podcasts over 3G. An annoying catch: the 10MB limit is still in place for the app store, which is an odd omission. This new limit change wasn’t highlighted in the keynote speech much, which is rather strange given the [...]

Gizmodo has published tons of screen captures and notes regarding the new iPhone 3.0 release detailed yesterday, and it introduced lots of new and very cool features. Copy and paste is in, push notifications and note syncing is in and working, and it even includes a feature that can help you find a lost iPhone [...]

Digg founder Kevin Rose apparently released some rumors about where this Tuesday’s iPhone 3.0 software update will take Apple’s smartphone. If what Rose said at his Diggnation party holds true, users will get copy and paste abilities by pinching and dragging two quote icons to create “copy boundaries,” then a dialog to cut, copy, or [...]