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iPhone OS 3.1 update already in beta

iPhone OS 3.1 update already in beta

Just when we got used to the new iPhone OS 3.0, Apple rolls out a beta of version 3.1. Top of the list of this bug fix is the ability to nondestructively edit video. With the current OS 3.0, if you trim the beginning or the end of the clip and save it, those edited parts of your video are gone forever. In OS 3.1, you'll have the option to save a copy of the edited video, leaving the original intact. But wait, there's more:

• Voice Control now works over Bluetooth
• Faster boot time
• iPhone vibrates when moving icons
• Updated AT&T profile to 4.2
• Updated modem firmware to 5.08.01
• Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz.
• APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them.

One fix I wish they would implement: It's harder to place the cursor within text than it was in the old iPhone OS (could that be because of the new "oleophobic" screen?). Maybe somebody could try fixing that. Let's also hope the developers do something to improve the iPhone 3GS's speech recognition, which is laughably lame thus far.

Developers are getting the beta software and firmware now, but the official release date for the rest of us iPhone-totin' suckas is unknown.

The iPhone Blog, via Geeky Gadgets

 
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By dancesonsnow at 3:01 AM ON 07/02/09

AVRCP Bluetooth?

By dancesonsnow at 3:02 AM ON 07/02/09

AVRCP Bluetooth?

By smith134 at 12:21 AM ON 07/09/09

Apple's now sending out the beta OS 3.1 and its SDK to the developer community to finagle with as well.

By natalie at 4:18 AM ON 07/09/09

I like its fancy apperance as well as powerful features.

By Matrix0111 at 9:07 AM ON 07/17/09

What ever happened to pictures and video via mms

By KIrax117 at 9:34 AM ON 07/20/09

Well with 3.1 there will be a option to enable MMS but AT&T are still not ready. But hold your breath for this o.s. to be out before the summer. Look at how long 3.0 was in the beta stage so it's going to be along time

By macintosh264 at 1:59 PM ON 07/20/09

Wait, if you have 3.1 beta, try to add a website to your home screen

By Fernando at 3:56 AM ON 08/23/09

I heard that AT&T allow the mms via iphone for sure.
Ok, more done, more convenient.

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