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iPhone App: The Expensive SlingPlayer Mobile

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Apparently the people at Sling Media doesn’t want to sell much of the highly anticipated SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone. Confidently and uniformly priced at $29.99, SlingPlayer Mobile is available for BlackBerry, Palm, Symbian and Windows Mobile in addition to the iPhone.

With such price point, Sling Media will have a tougher time to sell the app. SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone supports streaming only on Wi-Fi, while it supports streaming on 3G connections on other platforms.

More info on SlingPlayer Mobile http://slingmedia.com/go/spm

SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone http://slingmedia.com/go/iphone

SlingPlayer Mobile for the iPhone is available at iTunes Store.

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iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3 Expires on May 9th, 2009.

UPDATE:
iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 is expiring around June 19th, 2009. Get iPhone OS 3.0 Official Release through iTunes.

As we have reported before, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta carries an expiration date. For those who has iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 3 still on their phone might have some purple shock today. As the software hits the expiration date, the iPhone displays purple screen with instructions to connect to iTunes. When connected, iTunes warned that the software has expired and must be updated to the newer version. In this state, the iPhone is rendered useless except for emergency calls. The most current version is iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 as of May 9th, 2009. Based on the expiration date of previous builds, iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 will expire on June 1st, 2009.

iPhone Purple Screen

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iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 and iTunes 8.2 Pre-release (b10)

May 6th, 2009. Wednesday evening, Apple released iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 (Build: 7A312g) along with the SDK and new build of iTunes 8.2. This marks the first time Apple breaks the release cycles between iPhone OS 3.0  Beta revisions. Up to Beta 4, the release was in two-week-interval.

In the meantime, Mac OS X 10.5.7 is rumored to see release as early as Friday May 8th, 2009. As we had found out before, note-syncing in iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 required Mac OS X 10.5.7.

iTunes 8.2 Pre-release (b10) is available for Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard) and Windows XP/Vista (32-bit and 64-bit).

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iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 and iTunes 8.2

Some notes regarding iPhone OS 3.0 and iTunes 8.2:

  • Syncing notes requires Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later.
  • “Store” Settings is now working.
  • iPhone performance is much improved compared to Beta 3.

This begs the question: Is Mac OS X 10.5.7 about to be released?

More will be added as they surfaced.

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iTunes Goes 8.2

Apple is seeding iTunes 8.2 to iPhone Developers as it is required for iPhone OS 3.0 SDK and iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4.

iTunes 8.2 Pre-release is available for Mac OS X, Windows 32-bit and 64-bit.

iTunes 8.2 Pre-release is available to certified iPhone Developers.

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iPhone OS 3.0: YouTube Account – Part 2

Alvaro asked about the new YouTube features in iPhone OS 3.0 Beta:

“Can you view/add comments on videos?
What are the new features? getting your subscription feed and the list of playlists”

The answers:

  • Yes, you can view/add comments on videos.
  • Yes, you can get your subscription feed.
  • Yes, you can retrieve your playlist.

iPhone OS 3.0: YouTube Account Rate Comment Flag

iPhone OS 3.0: YouTube Account Playlist Subcriptions

In addition to that, you can merge the favorite list on the iPhone and the YouTube account.

Merging YouTube Favorites

Yeah, that was Wrathchild America, Sacred Reich and Ron Paul.

Always love Wrathchild America. I talked to Brad Divens and Shannon Larkin back in the day.

I still have my Sacred Reich Crew Tour Jacket from the 90’s.

“Nice Meal” video features Carlos Alazraqui and Cedric Yarbrough.

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Apple is set to release iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4

UPDATE April 27, 2009 16:52 Pacific Time:
iPhone OS 3.0 SDK and iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 is RELEASED!
iPhone OS 3.0 build 7a300g

UPDATE April 27, 2009 16:00 Pacific Time:
New info on iPhone OS 3.0 SDK and iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4.

We don’t exactly know when Apple would release iPhone OS 3.0 SDK and iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4, but we were informed by a totally made-up person who is not Tim Cook that it will require new version of iTunes (version 8.2?). Assuming that Apple is still working on iTunes 8.2, the release of iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 might be delayed a little bit.

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According to an imaginary person who claimed to be not Scott Forstall, Apple is set to release iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 4 this week. The new Beta addresses numbers of bug fixes and performance tweak.

iPhone OS 3.0 Beta is set to expire roughly four weeks after the build date.

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iPhone OS  3.0 Beta 4 might see the release late Tuesday April 28th, 2009.