The Signal (IntoMobile Podcast: Episode 19 – Win a Free Bluetooth Headset!)
By Simon Sage on Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 3:36 PM PST In Podcast, The Signal
Want to win a Plantronics 925 Discovery Headset? Leave a comment!
…and if you really wanted to, you could also listen to the podcast. Big on our list this week is the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement coming next Tuesday, which is exactly what our poll is about: what would you like to see in iPhone 3.0? MMS? Video recording? Or, heaven forfend, cut and paste? Make your vote before the Tuesday announcement, and leave a comment with your thoughts on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL)’s plans for a chance to win a free Bluetooth headset. All that aside, we also chat about the underwhelming Palm (NSDQ: PALM) Pre webinar, Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s plans for GrandCentral, the new Cydia app for the jailbroken iPhone market, and a new MVNO who thinks it’s got a better chance than Helio.
Hit the poll, the comments and the podcast after the jump!
Music by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, as featured on Tap Tap Revenge for the iPhone.
Filler by Krazy Baldhead.
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iPhone is a perfect phone for social networking with lots of apps to support all the popular imaginable networking site.
However, it does lack not having a decent camera. Lot of blogging involves giving video demos, and thats where the camera fails. Bluetooth features are a must. Just imagine attaching a bluetooth keyboard to iphone (am not talking about jailbroken ones, pls). If we have a decent cam of say even 3.2 with LEDs and bluetooth keyboard, the iphone could become, from a top media consumption device to, a top media creator device! That would be just awesome.
I think that if Apple doesn’t get cut and paste and MMS out in version 3.0 a lot of people are going to be seriously disappointed. Of course you could avoid that all together and not buy an Iphone, but hey that’s just my 2 cents.
wow, a bluetooth headset for a comment. Of course I agree with the two features getting all the votes till now but I feel one more thing is missing and that is flash support on web browsing. Wish it comes woth version 3.0!!!