Comments on: Apple Releases iPhone 3.1 Firmware and SDK to Developers

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:13:20 +0000

The idea of getting an iphone is to be able to use it as it was built, sold and marketed. Having to only use half of the functions to keep battery levels up is only worth half the cost. It is false advertising.

For example, I also have both the 3G and 3GS and both batteries suck! It "seems" better when turning off 3G, Bluetooth, and everything else, but I want it to do what it was built to do! So, that means, everything should work, for as long as I want, and the battery life should last at least as long as advertised!

The camera and the video lacks the ability to zoom without using a separate app. There's no way to make changes to video/camera quality depending on the place your taking the picture.

When listening to an ipod, then going to the camera, the ipod stops. This is true with other apps. One stops when you use a different one - not exactly "multi-tasking".

After using a Tilt with all these features and more, using the iphone has been a bit of a letdown except for the functionality with all the apps available. Don't get me wrong - I like the iPhone, I just expect more.

I hope the new version comes out with a lot more feature upgrades and besides, since AT&T is charging us for the ability to send and receive MMS, they should provide it "now" or refund the money. -- Just my humble thoughts. -b

By: Tee

Tee — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:00:50 +0000

Stop using the phone all day and you wont was released and i don’t have ANY problems with my battery life. stop playing with your phones all day and the charge will last

By: Justin Ver Burg

Justin Ver Burg — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:11:53 +0000

Does anyone know if it’s easy to understand Apple SDK with only an understanding of Flash, CSS, Java, Etc.? Do I need to be a C++ guru?

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:43:21 +0000

was only 3.0.1 not 3.1

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:42:12 +0000

nvm just crap!!!!!!!!!

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:01:02 +0000

i just pluged my iphone in an am now downloading 3.1 im not the beta vers just happend to plug in to charge an it was thear anyone eals get it or know whats in the update?

By: Sophia

Sophia — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:00:31 +0000

my phone won’t charge past 20% even when i leave it for more than 5 hours. won’t even detect on itunes for restore anymore..

By: Lauren.

Lauren. — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:34:28 +0000

Is this update supposed to fix the problems people are having with new photos or screenshots not showing up in their camera roll? I hope so. Mine just started doing it and it’s driving me insane. I personally know seven people it’s happened to already.

By: yo

yo — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:40:58 +0000

I have both the 3G and the 3G S. Both of the are running the 3.0 software and the battery on both of them drains real quick and I’m not usings push notifications (they are turned off) and I even shut off push in mail, wifi and 3G but that didn’t help. While I could charge the iPhone before I went to sleep with 2.2.1 and then put it next to my bed and still having almost 100% battery life in the morning with 3.0 it’s not anywhere close to that. When I’m lucky the next morning I have like 70 percent left (all the battery intensive stuff is turned off), sometimes only 50% on both phones

By: d.allen

d.allen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:29:48 +0000

When did 36 hours start = three days… but anyway.. I too could use a battery boost, and would welcome the wifi fixes.

By: Desmond

Desmond — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:04:13 +0000

Three days without a charge your lying!! Two days without a charge your lying! STOP LYING!

By: Levertis

Levertis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:50:44 +0000

@Lordzod01

u got to be kidding your phone last 36 hours ok i haven't charged my iPhone in 2 days lol lol even apple knows that is a joke lol lol omg lol.

By: DDay

DDay — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:13:18 +0000

Same issues with the battery life. Drains waaaaay to quickly. Even disabling notifications and push doesn’t help.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:30:36 +0000

@iSkythe I think that was working in the first beta?

By: Ralph

Ralph — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:27:06 +0000

Wifi seems more stable. Testing battery life now

By: lordzod01

lordzod01 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:11:52 +0000

My battery life has nearly doubled since 3.0. I get nearly 36 hours now with heavy usage now. Sorry to here people are struggling. I had a problem with no wifi, but swapped out my old phone at the genius bar.

By: Mystic

Mystic — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:42:21 +0000

No problems here with battery life on the 3GS either. Much better than the 3G.

By: Truth

Truth — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:37:42 +0000

Nothing new here. Move along people.

Maybe update 3.2 will be an update for getting updates.

By: J-Califorina

J-Califorina — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:35:44 +0000

FIX BATTERY IT DIES FAST….

By: only1jonarius

only1jonarius — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:05:16 +0000

personally I think wireless sync would be the best…because I hate using my USB cord, especially when it connects/reconnects on it’s own while syncing!!!

By: iSkythe

iSkythe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:34:50 +0000

Hey Rene, apparently you can also save videos from an email to your photo library.

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:35:06 +0000

I think Micro Cell was added back in February?

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/02/06/apple-pushes-iphone-carrier-update/

By: CJ

CJ — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:10:20 +0000

@KORG stupid question, but what is M-Cell

By: frog

frog — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:06:15 +0000

Battery life has been fine so far on my 3Gs, though improvements would always be welcome!

By: KORG

KORG — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:54:54 +0000

Oh yeah seems that Apple fixed that high pitched noise that the 3GS VIDEO/MEMO

By: KORG

KORG — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:53:46 +0000

3GS modem firmware 05.10.01 so that it should fix the crazy WIFI issues!

Carrier is now AT&T 4.5 People are reporting getting M-Cell on there iPhones.

Now the craziest thing I heard is wireless synce!

By: Rene Ritchie

Rene Ritchie — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:47:06 +0000

3GS battery is fine for me as well, and I use it fairly heavily. I did a clean install, no jailbreak, Push Notification for Twitter via Boxcar and BeeJive for IM.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:45:49 +0000

@jeff No AVRCP support

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:44:40 +0000

My 3GS battery has been great. I used to charge my phone everyday, now on a lite use day I can go almost 2 days without charging.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:42:30 +0000

I restored my phone (3GS) thru iTunes and my battery life improved dramatically

By: Jeff S

Jeff S — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:42:24 +0000

Avrcp support added? What’s the point of stereo bt if I gotta take my iPhone out of my pocket to change tracks.

By: tweger01

tweger01 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:36:17 +0000

No kidding. I have to charge mine 3x a day!

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:30:32 +0000

Just fix the goddamn battery issues (especially the 3GS battery.)