iPhone Firmware 3.0 at Mac Expo 2009

Published by Charl Norman on Mar 24th, 2009, No Comments

firmware3 In order to keep iPhone and iPod Touch Free from bugs, improve performance, add new features, resolve speed issues and patch any known exploit used to jailbreak and unlock iPhone and iPod touch, apple is continuously keeping its Firmware updated. From iPhone and iPod touch firmware 1.0 to 2.2.1 many new features got added for e.g iPhone firmware 2.0 got app store support.

Apple iPhone firmware 3.0 which was unveiled at Macworld Expo 2009 on March 17.

iPhone official Firmware 3.0 Features

In-App Commerce: Developers can sell their applications partially instead of selling the whole package
Accessories: Control and communicate with external hardware devices through Dock connector or Bluetooth
Peer to Peer: Protocol that allows an iPhone to find other local devices within the vicinity using Bluetooth
Push Notification
Landscape mode: Landscape mode keyboard works in all apps including mail!
Copy, Cut and Paste
Forward / Delete: Support for message forwarding and deleting individual messages in a conversation
Spotlight: Search virtually everything including apps, text, messages or simply anything
Multimedia messaging: Sending photos or audio files through messages

The upgrade will come free for the iPhone users. Unfortunately iPod Touch users will have to pay $10 in order to get their devices upgraded. Currently, iPhone 3.0 SDK is available for developers and will be ready for public download in summer.

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