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By: battery According to 9to5 Mac‘s multiple sources, Apple has been negotiating with Verizon Wireless to provide the over-the-air updates, but the sources wouldn't comment on whether the same negotiations were taking place with AT&T. For iOS updates to be delivered over-the-air, Apple will need to make fundamental changes in the way its updates work . For one thing, Apple will need to stop requiring a download of the entire operating system for a simple update. Apple a1185 battery, Brand New 5500mAh on sales US: http://www.batteryfast.com/ UK: http://www.batteryfast.co.uk/ My take: Today, I updated my iPhone to iOS 4.3.3 (fixing that location tracking problem that caused such an uproar lately), and as it always does, the phone's data was backed up onto my laptop, and then the entire iOS 4.3.3 was downloaded, all 662.3 MB of it. That's not going to be easy to do over the air, especially if you're using 3G or 4G. Perhaps Apple will let these updates take place only over Wi-Fi connections, as it does for some large app downloads. Even if that's the case, just for the sake of efficiency it would be a good idea to send incremental updates, similar to the way Microsoft has been updating its operating systems for years, in small pieces as they become available. This would be a long-awaited and welcome capability — a feature that's commonplace in the Android operating system. So how much longer must we wait? Of course, Apple's not saying, but general consensus is that iOS 5 will launch when the iPhone 5 ships, and now the latest iPhone rumor is that it won't be happening in June or July, as many had hoped. Another recent report said the next iPhone would be shipping in September. More: http://www.batteryfast.co.uk/ # # # http://www.batteryfast.co.uk/ We aim at offering the most updated and high quality consumer electronics to shoppers from all over the world. End
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