Apple iPhone 3.0 software announcement: Photos
March 18th, 2009 by James Martin and CNET Staff
The push notification feature that was supposed to appear in September of last year will finally be making its way to phones in version 3.0. Forstall notes that Apple had been late on this, and blamed the delay on scaling, saying that the original system was too taxing on both the handset's battery and its processing power.
The new system works just like the old one, but has been optimised for over-the-air data transfer. It still relies on Apple's servers as a go-between to send audio alerts, text messages and badge notifications. Users still have to fire up the application to get at the data, though.
(Credit: CBS Interactive)
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iPhone Buyers Guide
March 18th, 2009 at 12:38pm
Thanks for the writeup - it's great to see the presentation in picture form... Any chance of video?
Judy Luer
June 30th, 2010 at 5:32am
What is the little silver loop for that comes in the box with the iPhone 3s and what does it attach to?