IPhone OS

Developing software for mobile phones is such a challenge! Not only do you have to deal with the wide variety of hardware, you’d also have to deal with the different platforms available. Imagine trying to make your mobile application or game available on the Symbian, Java, Windows Mobile, Android, iPhone OS, Blackberry, Danger platforms! Continue reading …

It looks like June will be a busy month for mobile platform updates. Besides the announced availability of the Palm Pre on June 6, the Android open mobile platform version 1.5 cupcake revisions has been bumped off to early June.

Windows Mobile 6.5 is now finished and will soon be available according to the Windows Dev Team Twitter updates. What’s even more interesting is the upcoming Apple Development Conference in June which has raised speculations and discussions on the Net that not only will it feature the iPhone OS 3.0 release but also a new iPhone HW as well. The Apple WWDC has been sold out as of now.

Just read from Arstechnica that Apple has released iPhone OS 3.0 beta 3. Several changes have been included in the third beta build that includes changes in the notification types, XIB files and the IDE for creating dashboard widgets. Apple seems to be on track with the June final release.

As most of the Apple iPhone users already know by now, the iPhone OS 3.0 update is a very welcome update since it will be bringing things like search, cut and paste and MMS to the iPhone. These features have been a few of the most requested since the iPhone was released. Also, iPhone developers will be able to do more with the new iPhone OS with the addition of about 1000 API’s. Even single person iPhone developers have been successfully raking in the income from the Apple Apps Market since it allows them to sell directly to the iPhone users and earn 70% of the selling price.