http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
You're so right, iPhones are barely usable at all!

Kind of makes you wonder how they sell so many.

]]>May 4th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/Ooo... I actually like that.]]>May 4th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/Yeah it does, it would've sucked to lose double-press for iPod functionality.
This OS is slowly but surely maturing and coming along very nicely, now just one more thing...
can't we please have a non-completely obnoxious notification system?
I love when Plants vs Zombies on my iPad pauses literally every 3 seconds due to an IM. They are making some great progress in other areas of the UI, this issue NEEDS to be fixed. I'm hoping that they have a new method, but it wasn't quite ready for their previous announcement but is coming soon. wishful thinking?]]>May 4th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
They don't look like a huge leap over the iPod controls that show up currently on a locked iPod screen... but a change of scene doesn't hurt the eye... not in this case at least! :)

@pitnefor

You are really so biased. ]]>May 4th 2010 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/imposter, you are

talk like this, you do not]]>May 4th 2010 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/He does have a point though. When the iPhone OS was originally dreamt up these kind of things weren't even a consideration. Adding them in now makes them feel really tacked on.
iPhone 3G user.]]>May 4th 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
If a game involving plants and zombies on your iPad is being interrupted by your friends trying to talk to you, I think you've got a bigger problem than the notification system of the iPad OS. ]]>May 4th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
Can be fixed in OS4 w/backgrounding threads... of course, if the developers update their apps --that's going to be a few weeks of interesting updates.]]>May 4th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/"You're so right, iPhones are barely usable at all! Kind of makes you wonder how they sell so many."

That's a dumb comment, regardless of the original comment's merit. Most people agreed that almost ALL phone UIs sucked ass before the iPhone, and yet they sold millions and millions of them. While you can find examples in lots of other product arenas, the irrelevance of the UI is particularly strong in the cell-phone marketplace because nobody actually TRIES the product's UI before buying. They ask: Does it look good? Does it work on my carrier? Can I afford it? Does it have the physical shape I like? SOLD.

If people (and reviewers) were more discerning, we would have had decent phones 10 years ago and Apple wouldn't have just walked all over the market. The exact same thing happened with iPod and other MP3 players. Creative could've owned that market (and initially did), but their designs sucked. I mean, they took a rectangular hard drive and put it in a giant, unwieldy, saucer-shaped chassis disguised as a DiscMan. Why?

The iPod was simply the obvious way of doing that kind of device. The iPhone is somewhat better than the obvious, but still it makes some major mistakes. Take, for instance, the lack of important phone functions like audible alerts of missed calls & voicemails.]]>May 4th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/I'm so flattered that you decided to make a commenting account that copies me just for an engadget meme that ended 2 weeks ago!]]>May 4th 2010 7:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/How about you go into Settings and turn off pop-up notifications for your IM client? Notification badges and/or notificaton sounds seem to be more appropriate for your high message load.]]>May 4th 2010 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://milionpixela.strana.rs/image-7F40_4B561C62.jpg]]>May 4th 2010 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
How many other mobile OS'es have native visual voicemail?]]>May 4th 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/"And why exactly would you want an audible for a missed call when you just heard the phone ring and decided not to answer?"

What about all the calls you DIDN'T HEAR? Do you seriously think the only reason people don't answer calls is that they decide not to? Talk about detached from reality. What a bizarre assumption.]]>May 4th 2010 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/Not hating on Apple, but I recently got an Incredible (switching from a BlackBerry) and one of my favorite things about the UI is the drag down notification bar. SO convenient.

I can see what the alert is from almost any app (depending on how the dev fills the screen) and choose to either ignore it for now or drag it down and view/act on it.]]>May 4th 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
I completely agree. The iPhone UI is starting to feel tacked on.]]>May 4th 2010 9:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/im sure steve jobs was not the inventor of multi touch.
and android is KNOWN for its widgets how many other platforms have useful widgets. (plz dont say touch wiz either -__-)]]>May 4th 2010 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
I'm glad anyway...I didn't want to lose the iPod controls]]>May 4th 2010 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/you mean the ring tone for the missed call and the chime when someone leaves a voicemail are not audible enough for you]]>May 4th 2010 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/um, you need some more information for your central... That guy was SOOOO OBVIOUSLY being sarcastic! Seriously!]]>May 4th 2010 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/Already did innovate, AND called out the Creative blunders WHEN THEY HAPPENED. Even E-mailed them about several of those design flaws, about which they did nothing. Also routinely file bugs and suggest solutions on other products.

So, really, the small-minded person is the one who assumes that because HE didn't get off his ass, nobody else did either.]]>May 4th 2010 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://j.mp/os-4-0-by-iphone]]>May 4th 2010 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/"you mean the ring tone for the missed call and the chime when someone leaves a voicemail are not audible enough for you"

Exactly, because they only occur ONCE, right after you missed the call. Now gee, let's think it through: If you missed the call, it stands to reason that you're going to miss ONE chirp that occurs seconds later. Maybe you were in the shower, or down the hall doing laundry while your phone was in its dock charging, or driving in a noisy environment, or in any other easily imagined scenario where you temporarily couldn't hear the phone or feel it vibrating.]]>May 4th 2010 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 5th 2010 12:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 5th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/yeah you must have been doing somethin wrong or downloaded the wrong apps. and you rly must not have had a htc sense device cuz theyre everywhere on the incredible, desire, legend, hero etc...]]>May 5th 2010 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
Gotta say I like the way the Pre implements the controls here. Even just turning on your screen and not unlocking it they sit nicely at the bottom and even have a little icon of the album art if there is any. It's unobtrusive just like all the other notifications. ]]>May 5th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
your name kills your credibility here... thanks for trolling though.]]>May 4th 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/May 4th 2010 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/It doesn't matter who adds what feature to their phone the first, it matters who adds what feature to their phone the best. And, well, you can't deny that generally Apple implements most features wonderfully, even if they were a little behind. ]]>May 4th 2010 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/iphone-os-4-beta-3-brings-ipod-widgets-to-the-dock/
Back under the bridge troll. Cydia has had all of this since 2g. Android didn't innovate a thing. Jailbroken iPhone destoys all competition. ]]>May 4th 2010 6:38PM