iPhone Update / Features

iPhone Update
 

The iPhone is continually updated with new features.  

This is the 3.0 2009 feature list for the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G S mobile phone (note that the 3G doesn't have all of the features below. The iPhone 3GS does have everything):


iPhone 3GS 3.0 2009 Mobile Phone Features Video

  • Cut, Copy and Paste: Available across all apps. Shake to undo or redo.
  • In-App Purchasing: Allows developers to sell additional content from within applications. Highlighted uses include magazine subscriptions, eBooks, additional levels and items for games.
  • Peer-to-Peer Connectivity: Find other devices running the app via Bonjour over Wi-Fi of Bluetooth. Good for gaming, but also other applications for sharing data.
  • Third-Party Accessory Apps: Allowing accessory manufacturers to create applications to interface with their hardware accessories.
  • Push Notification: Rather than using background processes that hamper battery life, utilize third-party server to push badge, text, and audio alerts from applications.
  • Turn by Turn: Apple will allow developers to use CoreLocation for turn-by-turn GPS directions.
  • Landscape keyboard: Available in all key applications, including Mail.
  • MMS: Picture messaging now available.
  • New video recorder
  • Voice Memos: Record notes, lectures, interviews, etc.
  • Spotlight Search: Available across all applications. Systemwide search available from main home screen by flicking to the left.
  • A2DP Bluetooth: Support for stereo bluetooth headsets.
  • New touch-focus camera
  • Internet Tethering: Share your Internet connection with your laptop with Internet tethering via Bluetooth or USB.
  • Safari Improvements: Enjoy faster performance, autofill user names and passwords, and more.
  • Automatic Wi-Fi Login: Log in to a Wi-Fi hotspot and iPhone automatically logs you in when you connect again.
  • Sync Notes: Never leave a note behind. Now you can sync all the notes you write on your iPhone back to your Mac or PC.
  • Shake to Shuffle: Give iPhone a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.
  • YouTube Login: Log in to your YouTube account to save and sync bookmarks and rate favorites.
  • Enhanced Stocks App: Get more at-a-glance information and view charts in landscape.
  • New digital compass.
  • New voice dial and voice playback for music titles.