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October 1, 2007 12:00 AM PDT
Another undocumented iPhone 1.1.1 feature: Can play MP3/AAC/WAV audio email attachments
iPhone Atlas reader Greg Seecof recently discovered:
"I can now play back audio attachments in email messages. I only tried one, an AAC voicemail file sent from my PhoneValet software but for the first time since I got my iPhone, it played! I was actually crafting a feedback message to Apple regarding this handicap when I discovered it worked now."
Sure enough, testing confirms that the iPhone's email client can now (after the 1.1.1 update) download and play audio files in all the QuickTime audio formats it supports, including MP3 AAC and WAV.
Other previously reported, undocumented new features include text message sound settings, international characters, and new options for video playback.
Feedback? info@iphoneatlas.com.
--Chris
I've been watching episodes of a TV show on my iPhone. Prior to installing 1.1.1, at the end of each movie, a "bubble" would pop up, asking if I wanted to keep or delete the movie. Although I always pressed "delete," causing the file to be immediately deleted, when I synced the iPhone, unless I remembered to change the settings in iTunes, that movie would be placed right back on the phone! In other words, deleting the file from the iPhone was an *unnecessary* step.
Now, as of 1.1.1, I am no longer asked, at the end of a movie/TV show, if I want to delete the file. It appears that Apple realized it was a silly (i.e., pointless) feature.
Instead, I wish Apple had *left* the feature on the iPhone, but had that setting automatically updated in iTunes upon syncing -- thereby informing iTunes to "uncheck" that movie, so it's not re-transferred to the iPhone. That would have been a much more elegant feature implementation.
Decisions!
The details are on my blog here: http://tinyurl.com/22ax9a
I would appreciate some comments back either here or on my blog.
-HTD
Hurry up Apple! I can do this on a Treo today... *sigh*
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Any ideas? Could Vonage have some coding in its wav file that prohibits this, or size an issue?
Thanks.
Bill
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5469456&#5469456
Apparently it's a codec issue, and there's no workaround. Big grrr.
-liminal89
- by psuskeels February 4, 2008 10:17 PM PST
- You can listen to Vonage voicemails on your iPhone via http://www.vonagent.com (it's free). It also lets you manage SimulRing/Call Forwarding.
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