Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 software, previewed yesterday, allows a lot of new applications and is available immediately – in the form of a beta software kit for registered developers.
The new software will allow users to listen a fellow iPhone user’s iPod music collection, compute medication, and support turn-by-turn Google Maps geopositioning applications.
The iPhone OS 3.0 beta release includes an updated software development kit featuring more than 1,000 new APIs (application programming interfaces), including In-App Purchases; new peer-to-peer connections; a new application interface for accessories; access to the iPod music library; a new maps API, and push notifications.
While the Apple iPhone OS 3 is in beta right now, the company plans to roll out the full version by the summer. The software development kit, or SDK, is available for developers right now. Apple also announced that its App Store now contains 25,000 apps for the iPhone.
There are more than 100 new features in iPhone OS 3.0. More than 800,000 downloads of the previous iPhone SDK have been made, and the paid developer community now numbers more than 50,000, said Scott Forstall, Apple’s senior vice president for iPhone software.
Forstall highlighted several of those new capabilities. Here are some of them:
For more detail on the iPhone OS 3.0 or to join the beta developer program, go here.
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