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iPhone Firmware 1.1.1 Features

I think the new features many iPhone users are requesting will come in a two stage process. The first phase will of course come out at the start of November for the impending launch in Europe. The obvious features include the iTunes Music Store, TV Out, Home Button preferences etc. These are important features that I think will see the iPhone be in even hotter demand this Christmas. "Quote: We want to put iPhone in a lot of stockings this year". Can you imagine teenagers with their iPhones, iPodTouches accessing and downloading songs after songs without a computer on their parent's iTunes accounts? (Guilty!)

The second phase will come at MacWorld 2008. Applications! Look at the iPod Touch and even the iPhone. The Home screen does look a bit bare. The obvious applications would be iChat, Games etc. Apple has only scratched the surface (pun intended) with the advanced sensors in the iPhone, imagine the applications? This seems fairly obvious as a natural progression of a mobile device. Sweeten the iPhone before the 3G roll out comes. Think about it, if you sugar load the iPhones now with what I've just said than no matter when the 3G iPhone comes everyone will still be pleased with what they got from their current iPhone.

I for one believe that AppleTV will see an overhaul in January. Despite it being "a hobby" it's undenieable the untapped potential that can be integrated between Apple's core businesses, the Mac, the iPod (touch in particular) and of course the iPhone. With the impending release of Leopard, bundled with iLife, new MacBook (Pros) on the horizon and updated iPhones it seems fitting that Apple will link the AppleTV to this chain of core business and bring it into the fold. Imagine, you go over someones house who has an AppleTV, you stream via Wi-Fi from your Mac, iPhone or iPodTouch, videos, music, podcasts etc. The possibilities are only limited to your imagination.

The future is exciting and I for one can not wait to see what Apple has to offer.

Cheers.
 
Maybe I missed it... What's the globe looking key. They broke the ".?123" button in two, now it's a "123" and what looks like a sphere.
 

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timdorr said:
Um, very. There is no ARM port of the Flash Player. Plus, it's a very complex and battery-draining application to run. It's not just simple vectors moving around anymore. There's an entire scripting language, video of multiple codecs, and all sorts of other stuff that has to be supported.
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Yes there are ARM ports. Look at Windows Mobile. Or Nokia.
 
Very Cool!

I don;t have an iPhone yet, but these are some cool features to what is already a great product. I am waiting for my Verizon contract to expire before I get one... :(
 
The real question is when the update will actually come.

The only thing in there I really care about is the iTunes store and the home button settings. I really hope there will be more since this update contains nothing that fixes the most popular complaints such as copy/paste, flash, or landscape keyboard in all apps. There are also no new apps like people continue to ask for. I know Apple will eventually address these issues, but it seems like they are currently more concerned with something like iTunes that can make them money. Hopefully it wont be too long before Apple addresses things that users complain about or want the most.
 
SO the routine is as follows:

Hack the iphone - unlocked.
Apple release new firmware.
All the 'legit' users have new stuff for three weeks or so.
Hack the iphone again.
All of us with unlocked phones get the new stuff.
Apple release new firmware....

Today Jobs said it was a 'cat and mouse game' with the hackers, and he 'wasnt sure' who was the cat and who was the mouse.

I live in Canada and have the unlocked iPhone - (its now a legit business expense because it has a web browser and email (computer)) - and I guess me and the other folks like me are the cheese.

I have sold my Razr V3T tonight for $100 and I am 'locked in' to the iPhone, and I am NOT going back to Moto and Nokia and all the rest of the crap, even if I have to run firmware 1.0.2 until 2010!
 
how about saving passwords in safari?

i have to type a password into a welcome page whenever i get onto my university's network, and the network usually reassigns my IP in less than a minute of my phone being asleep, so i have to login again.

on the other hand, does anyone know of a third party app to make iPhone Safari do this?
 
elgruga said:
even if I have to run firmware 1.0.2 until 2010!
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Amen. For all of us who have unlocked iphones, we need to patiently wait. Not a big deal IMO. You know for sure someone at gizmodo or engadget will experiment and let us know what happens. Unless apple releases an update that makes the iphone fly, I'm in no rush to update. :)
 
PLEASE, landscape mode in mail and SMS. My fingers are too big for the portrait keyboard and I want to see the PDFs I get in the mail in Landscape mode like I can in Safari!
 
southerndoc said:
I think I'm confused with what exactly you're asking.

It means if you double click the home button your phone favorites will display. Phone favorites is the short list of contacts that dial directly when clicked (as opposed to going through a regular contact that requires you to click the name, then the phone you want called, etc.).
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Don't feel bad I was only reading this topic to see what the Favorites was also, but now I get what it is!!1 HAHAHA:D
 
search

looks like there is a music search option in the update. Someone said they wanted that feature earlier in the comments. I think what's easy to forget is that this thing will only get better. That it is not like a phone, where what you buy, you are stuck with. I love my iPhone and look forward to many seeing it mature. It is truly revolutionary.
 
To Do lists will probably come when Leopard comes, as it is a new feature of Mail. And since Mail gets overhauled, pretty good guess that wished-for iPhone mail features come at the same time, yeah?

Again, landscape keyboard and voice dialing are my wants. And 16GB.
 
items I want

I would either like, wifi syncing with the iPhone and my Mac. Or syncing through dotmac. Im assuming all the new changes with dotmac have a lot more to do with future changes rather than the "send to web". I cant wait to see what apple has up there sleve once loepard releases.
 
I hope Applications come to iPhone thick and fast. It makes sense that it will. Think Apple had issues shipping Leopard on time as they had to get Software Engineers working on the iPhone. As such when Leopard has gone gold master and is shippped the software engineers can re-focus their efforts on the iPhone in time for new apps this coming MacWorld or better still, before Christmas. Makes sense in theory that is.

Cheers.
 
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