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.
