September 9, 2009 2:01 PM PDT
iPhone 3.1 brings Genius changes, ringtones
Steve Jobs announces iPhone OS 3.1.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET)Updated at 2:00pm PT with screenshots
At its special event Wednesday, Apple announced the latest iPhone software update iPhone 3.1. We're still downloading it now, but below you can read the list of changes as provided by Apple. Keep in mind that the ability to save a video from a multimedia message is dependent on MMS going live on September 25.
- Genius recommendations for Applications
- Support for iTunes 9 (Mac and Windows downloads), which offers Genius Mixes, app organization in iTunes, improved syncing options for music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and photos, iTunes U Content organization
- Redeem iTunes Gift cards, codes, and certificates in the App Store
- Display available iTunes account credits in the App Store and iTunes Store
- Browse and download ringtones wirelessly from the iTunes Store
- Save video from mail and multimedia messages into Camera Roll
- Option to "save as new clip" when trimming a video on iPhone 3GS
- Better iPhone 3G Wi-Fi performance when Bluetooth is turned on
- Remotely lock iPhone with a passcode via MobileMe
- Use Voice Control on iPhone 3GS with Bluetooth headsets
- Paste phone numbers into the Keypad
- Option to use Home button to turn on Accessibility features on iPhone 3GS
- Warn when visiting fraudulent Web sites in Safari (antiphishing)
- Improved Exchange calendar syncing and invitation handling
- Fixes issue that caused some app icons to display incorrectly
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Upgraded ipod touches and what? lower prices? for invite only event? nah, i will not be taken by this. Although I don't think it should be fair to judge a company for not leaving a wow every year "imagination can only go so far" because this is apple, im not impressed. I was hoping for some crazy tablet with multi-touch, great interface and sexy finish, and all i got was a nano with a video camera, gzzzzzz, now i guess i can sleep
As for the phone features and phone book, where do I Start?
Come on, Apple. Give us the practical features we need.
The metallic forehead stamp also please
I await such an existence....
my point: from the posts here I get the impression that:
1. many Apple users dont know squat about their hardware and software....it just works until they have to install another OS to fix issues that evidently "just make it work as we wnated it to work"...
2.. many Apple users have a high horse attitude complex and are quick to slam someone who has a legititmate question and JUST MAY be a recent "customer" of the iphone mania ( I see references to someone being called MORON and other names re their need for a solution)(one guy references the asker in a reply to someone who actually offered an answer..just plain mean)
3. that people are living their lives around a device and then starting arguments about it .....
Do any of you iphoners ever use your iPhone to comment on news topics in news web sites re important issues this country is facing or is it all Itouch and iphone references???..
just wondering...tech overload
In the interim you can copy and paste text signatures from Notes and a graphic from Photos. Extra steps, but is a solution until Apple gives us a new iPhone OS.
Go to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ and let them know what you would like to see in the iPhone, the squeaky wheel gets the features.
I don't care how smart, intelligent, rich, or sad he is. Mr. Jobs is a ****.
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If you do have an iphone navigate to airplane mode.
Apple can only built the features but they cant prevent M O R O N S from not finding them.
Lack of MMS on U.S. iPhones has nothing to do with Apple. It's AT&T's fault. We have been here over and over again.
Same deal with tethering. It works in markets where the carriers offer the feature.
I have tmobile in my unlocked 3gs and i have been getting mms since i bought it (3.0).
The only reason why mms hasnt worked yet on AT&T is because their servers and who knows what is not ready for the iphone to have this, They referred to network crashing and lots of bandwidth traffic that this will cause and are "currently working to have it done by the 25th" i believe.
So nope, you dont have to re-download 3.1 to get mms, just wait for "the nation's fastest 3g network" carrier figure mms out.
Having a camera would totally cannibalize the iPhone, number one, and Apple wanted to get the price down to $199, which is challenging already with the huge screen and wi-fi. Also, there's barely enough room inside the iPod Touch to fit the camera in there.
If you haven't noticed, the camera on the nano is only VGA and doesn't take still photos, only video, because in video you don't notice the crappy resolution so much.
I AM NOW IN PROCESS OF RE-INSTALLING ALL MY APPS AND VIDEOS AND MUSIC. NEVER WOULD HAVE DONE IF I KNEW WHAT A HASSLE IT WOULD BE.
i didn't realize the caps lock was on. seemed like forever
to re-install all my apps.
Listen to audiobook in iTunes, and get to the beginning of Chapter 2.
Sync with iPod Touch. Version on iPod touch is now at the beginning of Chapter 2.
Listen on iPod touch while doing whatever, get to the beginning of Chapter 5.
Synch again. Both the version on the iPod touch and the version on iTunes wind up at the beginning of Chapter 2.
This is ridiculously annoying, because it requires me to do one of two things.
1) Never, ever start listening to an Audiobook or Podcast in iTunes if I want the touch to keep its place, or.
2) Examine the timestamp on every single podcast or audiobook I haven't completed before synching, so I can keep listening from the point I've reached after synching.
Am I truly the only person who has experienced this?
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by Gurjeet35
September 9, 2009 4:03 PM PDT
- What? Still no option to customize SMS tones?
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by pjhenry1216
September 9, 2009 5:08 PM PDT
- I'd love to be able to customize SMS tones. Its ridiculous that you can't.
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Showing 1 of 3 pages (91 Comments)And to the change the snooze settings on the alarm clock?
Apple should know better