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Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

esegre — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:45:41 EST

I really dont get it , you are here at Gizmodo(the guys that turned the monitors off a CES) and complain about
MP3· ringtones...I have them
Games I have them
Move the icons around...I have it
change skins and themes I have them
New apps? will get them
Just Jailbrake
I am 1.1.2 jailbroken and happy
my phone works here in Mexico
I have edge
Internet
WiFi
and all
I cant see apple stopping this
I will continue as long as OS X is open source

regards
from sunny Mexico

esegre

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

t1bbs — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:27:44 EST

I don't know about anyone else, but I update last night and my battery life today was WAY less than usual. I was down to 10% in around 10 hours, whereas it would normally last around 24.

t1bbs

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Accelerata — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:24:14 EST

Sorry for the triple post, but I just finished reading all the comments and it seems like some people still don't know about this simple trick to get free ringtones without hacking your phone (or burning CD's or anything very tricky at all) [macapper.com]

Accelerata

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Accelerata — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:17:41 EST

@Accelerata: "it" being the hacking, not the ringtones. sorry for the broad reference error. And by unstable I mean the phone locking up completely requiring a power cycle to recover. Very annoying.

Accelerata

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Accelerata — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:15:34 EST

@izim1: Sweet, thanks. I was combing all through the comments to find this before I asked. I had my phone hacked for a bit, but honestly, the only thing I was using super frequently was the free ringtones and it seemed to be making my phone unstable. I do miss minesweeper though :(

Accelerata

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

heshmonster — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:46:44 EST

What will happen if I load tis on my iphne unlocked using the turbo sim method?

heshmonster

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

scout121 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:04:51 EST

i like the update but when I heard "customize" home screen i got my hopes up. i'd like to put a picture where the blackness is.

scout121

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

kOtic — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:05:48 EST

I don't feel like reading through a heap of comments, so forgive me if it was brought up, but texts are alot buggier with the new firmware. A text that I replied to will show up as the most recent sent/recieved text when really, my reply was the most recent. I could find this becoming annoying. :/
Anyone else have this?

kOtic

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

RoCKSTaH53 — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:28:21 EST

@nojo:
I had heard that Safari converts the HTML to an un-editable state (like a graphic) once the page is rendered on the iPhone. I actually think whoever stated it is probably wrong (there's no real way to check as you couldn't select the text anyway), but if it IS true, then it would make sense that Apple doesn't want to advertise that fault/flaw, rather just happening to not mention that there is no copy and paste. However this is me relaying second-hand knowledge so if I'm wrong don't shoot me.

RoCKSTaH53

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Pixelologist — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:08:44 EST

@OLEDRevolution: THAT was the big one I forgot earlier. All part of my "uncripple the damn bluetooth already!" rant.

Pixelologist

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

OLEDRevolution — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:37:11 EST

Considering that there's no tactile response and when I'm driving, I sure hate having to move my eyes away from the road (and children who love throwing balls into the street) to look at the screen when I'm trying to find a contact or dial a number, it really wouldn't have hurt them too much to add voice-dialing software to the update. Any ideas or rumors regarding this feature that's available on most other phones?

OLEDRevolution

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

robertseaton — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:16:30 EST

anyone else loose your edge data connection last night?

robertseaton

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Narual — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:59:41 EST

@DJJS: "WALLAH"???

Narual

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Narual — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:49:59 EST

"What's nice is that this set of people get saved as a "conversation" so you can send more messages to them without having to type in their names again."

Personally, while that's OK, I'd rather have the messages go to the threads for the individual people, or do it in both places.

Narual

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

DJJS — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:06:46 EST

Got a Question? Im Still wating for the 3giPhone ( have a black jack).. People complain alot that you can use Your Own Mp3 files as ring tones..
I find it Very interesting.. .. ..
Thank you iTunes. for letting me Clip my songs to 30 Sec!
any song that i have bought or had all ready..
Letting me Burn them on a CD!) And re-upload them as A MP3 FILE!!!!
and i have free ringtones for life on my phone!! Drag and Drop baby!

Fot those Windows users its Easy!!
Click on your Song.. Choose ur Favorite part of the song.. Go to Info.. (Start and Stop time) if you know ur math its super easy.. just cut it down to 30 sec.. then make a Playlist - Burn upload them as an MP3 and WALLAH!!
Free Ringtones!!

Dose anyone know if this Works on the iPhone?

DJJS

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

mikemystery — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:05:08 EST

So, Mr Jobs I can find myself on a map, and move around my wobbly icons. I can sms more than one person.

but if i want to do something simple like, say, COPY AND PASTE I can't do it.

Where the devil is my COPY and PASTE?

1.3 firmware with no c/p! Tush, Sir is say! Tush, phish and phipsy to it Sir!

mikemystery

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

bandit — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:35:49 EST

@SumGuy: It at least saves you the trouble of having to use the awkward keyboard to type in a general location. That's convenient.

bandit

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

SumGuy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:32:50 EST

About the iPhony GPS.

Anybody who has real GPS on their phone will NOT be impressed by these google map tricks.

I had to go to North Richmond CA to pick up something, and I used my GPS to find the exact location. That is not an area where you want to get lost. I would not trust this triangulation method to get me out of there. I need EXACT directions not approximations. My $99 VX9900 can do it with ease. This method doesn't compare.

SumGuy

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

lucky_you — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:53:16 EST

Manual operation is on the iPhone finally... like the iPod.
Ahh good times.

lucky_you

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

bandit — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:56:39 EST

@RoCKSTaH53: Garageband? Great, so now I have to record a clip of the sound I'd like as a ringtone? Should I sample my old RAZR? And isn't Garageband Mac-only? I don't have a Mac. This is not a solution to what is a very simple problem.

bandit

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

bandit — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:53:25 EST

@Sam.Nerd144: Custom rings are available that you must purchase from iTunes, which means that I can select an excerpt of an obnoxious pop song. Call me old-fashioned, but I want a ringtone option that sounds like it's a cell phone, not a dog or a duck. Is this really a lot to ask?

bandit

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

rifdawg — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:44:12 EST

Edge really isn't as bad as everyone says it is. I'm in the SF Bay Area and pages load up just fine, I don't really expect to get the same speed on my CELL PHONE as I do on my computer. On another, more badass note, did you guys know that the iPhones predictive software puts the umlaut over the "a" in Jager????

rifdawg

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

eFish — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:36:54 EST

Shit!! No talk of 3G...Edge sux!

eFish

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

jaredrocco — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:39:57 EST

Cell tower positioning are more accurate than wifi??? Did you even pay attention to Steve's presentation?

The Skyhook wi-fi positioning is the primary location and can get you down to 30-40 meters. Google's cell tower stuff is the fall back and it 'might' get you to 1,000 meters (by their own description.)

jaredrocco

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

jpm438 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:32:44 EST

For some reason 1.1.3 screwed up my phone. It wasn't jailbroken or anything, but when I updated it sent my phone into recovery mode. Now when i try to restore it always times out when it gets to the "restoring firmware" section. Leading to a message that reads: "The iPhone "iPhone" could not be restored. An error occurred (1012)." I don't know what's wrong with it, but does anybody have any ideas on how to get it up and running again?

jpm438

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

jpm438 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:27:13 EST

For some reason 1.1.3 fucked up my phone. My phone wasn't jailbroken or anything, but when i tried to update it timed out or something and said that it couldn't restore my firmware (error 1201). Now it's in recovery mode, but when i try to restore it always times out at that point. (couldn't restore firmware error 1201). I don't know what to do, but I really need to get my phone up and running again. Any ideas?

jpm438

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

ipodee — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:25:10 EST

"Multi-recipient SMS is exactly what it sounds like. Pick more than one recipient, send a message, and it gets delivered to everyone. What's nice is that this set of people get saved as a "conversation" so you can send more messages to them without having to type in their names again."

A few 3rd party apps already achieved this :)

ipodee

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Charli Wag — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:09:59 EST

@fadedb8ta:
Ummm...dude could be wrong but i don't think the google page is part of the firmware...
Read on a blog somewhere that google just released a iphone version of igoogle to keep up with netvibes.
Google it....lol
As for updating no way i'm ditching my 60+ apps.
My iPoT is my frickin planner, atlas, playstation. phone,e-mailer,txter,web browser,guitar hero...er? lol
Not until the devs find a exploit to break in...
(Wich should be tuff seeing as apple blocked the tiff exploit and hella beefed up the security in 1.1.3)

Charli Wag

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Residentdrunkgirl — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:55:46 EST

anyone know what error 1602 is? errgghhh

Residentdrunkgirl

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

izim1 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:52:06 EST

this doesnt break the "renaming home name m4a ringtones to m4r" trick BTW. free ringtones still working.

izim1

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

MacAddict21 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:49:53 EST

@evoweis: if google can do it, imagine what big brother's up to.

MacAddict21

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

evoweis — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:31:28 EST

wow, i live in the suburbs - google got me right over my roof...amazing.

evoweis

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

parokyano — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:19:06 EST

has anyone tried this on the touch? Is it just me, or did they change the UI? there's now a grey band in the Music, Photos and Videos...

parokyano

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

inkswitch — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:07:41 EST

@phas3d:

Uh, it's called the "sync" button and it only takes a few minutes to fill the entire thing from scratch.

Are you planning on writing those songs note by note into the iPhone by hand or something?

inkswitch

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Player2 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:05:10 EST

Well I just went ahead and got it for the touch, and holy crap, google maps placed me less that 20' off from my house. I think it may actually work as well as I had hoped.

Player2

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

JKinNYC — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:50:34 EST

@JKinNYC: Reading more, I am wrong. So it makes no sense then.

JKinNYC

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

92BuickLeSabre — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:40:06 EST

@Player2 and JKinNYC: Ahhh...It's the phone, so it's the towers. Interesting.

92BuickLeSabre

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

JKinNYC — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:37:48 EST

@Pixelologist: I believe the bluetooth chipset being used doesn't support it

JKinNYC

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Pixelologist — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:27:56 EST

@JKinNYC: I don't believe so. Pretty sure it's a software thing. Am I wrong?

Pixelologist

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

JKinNYC — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:25:13 EST

@92BuickLeSabre: Wifi would be far less acurate than Cell towers. If you've got the phone, the cell towers are doing it for you.

JKinNYC

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Player2 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:15:46 EST

@92BuickLeSabre: Are you doing this on your phone or touch? The touch is supposed to use wifi signals, and I assume it's just getting the ip of any APs it sees and getting your location from there. Of course it's not that hard to get out of the range of any hot spots (maybe not in Manhattan) so I don't see how they can claim it works from anywhere.

Player2

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

macmanwa — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:11:20 EST

@deeboo626:

Mine did the same thing--however it could have been that I disconnected too early. After the firmware finished updating, iTunes said "Your iPhone is restarting, blah, blah, blah..." At that point I disconnected my iPhone assuming the update was done.

When the phone came back on, it displayed the symbol (like yours) indicating I was supposed to connect it to iTunes. I did, and several seconds later the message "iPhone activated." appeared on my iPhone and it worked like a charm.

I had a 1.1.2 un-jailbroken, locked phone.

macmanwa

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

92BuickLeSabre — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:08:42 EST

@JKinNYC: Manhattan here too, and it's funny; it's actually more accurate than if I type my address into Google Maps. (I think it must be picking up Wi-Fi signals. Right?)

92BuickLeSabre

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

phas3d — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:45:41 EST

Stupid crappy 1.1.3 sent my iphone into recovery mode and forced me to reinstall the firmware. It deleted hudnreds of songs, playlists, photos, contacts, emails, settings, contacts, calendar items and notes.

THANKS APPLE FOR FORCING ME TO SPEND THE REST OF THIS EVENING ADDING EVERYTHING BACK TO MY PHONE!!!!!!

phas3d

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

JKinNYC — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:43:05 EST

@Pixelologist: BT issue with stereo is because it lacks A2DP. Isn't that a hardware and not software issue?

JKinNYC

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

JKinNYC — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:40:54 EST

@Player2: Erp. Nyevermind. Yeah phone. Oops. Its going to do that based off of IP address, which is going to be pretty wrong. It has me dead wrong if I look up the address of my IP

JKinNYC

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Pixelologist — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:33:58 EST

@pir8matt: No C&P, no MMS, no iChat = not an update I'm gonna do.

Agreed. Also, bluetooth STILL busted (no syncing, file transfer, stereo audio, etc.), no to-do app, no spam filter, no white/blacklisting of incoming calls, no searching of contacts (or anything else). And on and on and on. All things my last phone did without breaking a sweat. I still love the POTENTIAL of the iPhone and the wonderful interface - it's really fun.....but still not very fun-ctional.

Pixelologist

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

JAG — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:32:04 EST

im going to start to call them *stufdates* instead of updates. im tired of Apple filling in the gaps a little at a time when 3rd party devolpers have already done it and them some. Get the picture apple- MMS, iChat, Digital Zoom, and Copy &paste. I will NOT download this stuffdate so it can break my 3rd party-apps, most of them are better than apple's anywhere

JAG

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Player2 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:26:36 EST

@JKinNYC: The touch uses cell towers? Are you talking about the phone?

The apple site claims "find yourself, wherever you are. Using some local Wi-Fi networks (if Wi-Fi is turned on), iPod touch finds your approximate location and gives directions from there"

Player2

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

JKinNYC — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:18:51 EST

@Player2: Has me pretty exactly in my apartment from two different ends. Doesn't use the wifi, uses cell towers. Granted, I'm in Manhattan which is blanketed with cell towers, but it definitely has me right on.

JKinNYC

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

EBone — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:14:31 EST

Still waiting for video recording.

EBone

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

deadlizard — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:04:10 EST

Yeah, but can it send picture messages to another phone?

deadlizard

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

kaushalmodi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:55:39 EST

@SockMonkey: Hey thanks! Wow, I didn't know that.

kaushalmodi

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

erickim18 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:54:55 EST

@gutterisatool: uhm iphone has to go into airplane mode because the cellphone signal interferes with the speakers. they always did that.

erickim18

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

kaushalmodi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:49:10 EST

@MacRule36: Try doing as I explained in my 5.46PM comment. May be it can help you.

kaushalmodi

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

kaushalmodi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:48:26 EST

@fadedb8ta: Yeah, Gmail showed the labels as folders too before this update. You just needed to set up an IMAP account by clicking on the 'Other' tab instead of the 'Gmail' tab.

kaushalmodi

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

kaushalmodi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:46:48 EST

@deeboo626: I also face that problem on one of my machines. Something's gone wrong with that. I have a desktop (XP) and a laptop (Vista). I can properly sync my music on my desktop. But after I started facing the problem like yours when upgrading the firmware on my desktop, I always use my laptop for that purpose. You too can upgrade your iPhone from some other machine. The only problem would be that if that other machine is not authorized by you, you will need to once again copy all music and data afresh from your authorized machine. I hope this helps.

kaushalmodi

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Player2 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:46:05 EST

Anyone try the google maps on the touch yet? I'm wondering how good it is at locating you over random wifi.

Player2

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

phoomp — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:35:36 EST

@deeboo626:
Always wait for others to test out Apple software updates before you try it on *your* Apple stuff.

phoomp

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

SockMonkey — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:32:18 EST

@kaushalmodi: before this update, you could not listen to your musing on your iPhone by browsing the music on it via iTunes and play the music on your iPhone through your computer. That's what I was referring to. Of course you have always been able to play music on the iPhone while connected to iTunes, but that was actually playing on the phone and going to the earbuds or out of the mini-speaker in the bottom of the phone.

This now allows you to play your music through the computer speakers when connected to iTunes. You could not do this prior to 1.1.3.

SockMonkey

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

OGHowie — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:29:03 EST

I need a good icon for Giz

OGHowie

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

an0maly — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:20:56 EST

Just discovered that Safari's management of pages has been updated! No more having to clean up pages when all of them are used. It now either finds an existing page that matches the new page to be opened (particularly if using webclips feature) or, recycles the oldest page opened.

an0maly

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

MacAir — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:19:00 EST

Updated to 1.1.3 and it's all that was said it would be out on the rumor sites. I'm pleased with new feature, but need cut/paste, record video and other. Will be patient...

MacAir

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

GutterIsATool — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:15:07 EST

I upgraded my Jailbroken iPhone, but every time I plug it into my iPhone/Headset combo dock, it comes up with the message saying that the accessory was not designed for the iPhone and asks if I would like to put it into Airplane mode. Anybody else getting this?

GutterIsATool

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

nojo — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:11:45 EST

@RoCKSTaH53: Safari converts text to graphics

Huh?

nojo

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

gadgetchic — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:05:52 EST

@gadgetchic: @gadgetchic: @nocar: that redial thing is not new

gadgetchic

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

workingonyourinvoice — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:04:43 EST

@theespacepope: You can use your own mp3s for ringtones since the last update.

workingonyourinvoice

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

gadgetchic — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:04:37 EST

the only thing i this update thats even worth caring for is the new google maps... so whos going to jailbreak this thing??

gadgetchic

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

cvdubb — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:02:32 EST

Can someone explain the Maps thing a little more to me?
Does it work as well as Navizon? I mean...once it locates you, can you use that location to get directions from the way you can with Navizon? Usually it has been accurate enough for me for this to be a great tool.

Thanks for the help...still trying to decide if I want to update...

cvdubb

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

josh.hofer — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:54:38 EST

Video doesn't work for me either!

josh.hofer

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

pir8matt — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:54:10 EST

No C&P, no MMS, no iChat = not an update I'm gonna do.

pir8matt

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

nocar — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:52:04 EST

Update successful, the new Map function is great and located me to about 100 feet.

Custom home screen works well (zoom in to adjust your view before you save a web page)

New REDIAL function on the phone keypad (just click call to get last number dialed back).

Unfortunately it broke iToner so I've lost all of my homebrewed custom ringtones.

nocar

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

theespacepope — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:49:09 EST

HEY LOOK, it only took me HOURS to figure out that I could use one account for all gawker sites. Well at least I am an idiot.

I will admit that the best part of this is the pseudo gps. That was one of the major things that kept me from buying an iPhone. Aside from 3g and the ability to use my own mp3s for ringtones.

theespacepope

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

RoCKSTaH53 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:48:27 EST

@BANDIT: and not only iTunes ones... you can make your own for free in Garageband

RoCKSTaH53

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

Sam.Nerd144 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:46:40 EST

@BANDIT: You do know that they've had custo ringtones for 4 months now, right?

Sam.Nerd144

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

computermachina — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:45:43 EST

@djay1717: same here

computermachina

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

djay1717 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:45:43 EST

any one test if it break apps and unlock?!

djay1717

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

jamesr242 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:45:12 EST

@bandit:
How wrong you are. Don't expect the iPhone to remind you for being a dumbass and turning the volume down. While it would be nice for some improvements (the speakerphone), the phone itself is pretty nice. I like how simple it is to conference call and switch between calls.

However, what I think would be awesome for the phone is if they took a hint from WM6 on the HTC Touch. It has a really sweet feature on the home screen where you tap people's picture to dial. Also, to keep people like you from complaining, they should use automatic rington profiles (so it puts it on vibrate when you have something in the calendar).

About the ringtones, whats wrong with "ring ring"?

jamesr242

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

djay1717 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:44:13 EST

video messed on my end

djay1717

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

RoCKSTaH53 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:43:02 EST

Copy/Paste is probably still left out because Safari converts text to graphics, so you wouldn't be able to copy/paste anything from the web. Even though I could still see a use for emails,etc., admitting to this shortcoming in Safari is probably worse than not mentioning that copy/paste isn't there... nat saying I agree with it, just saying why I think it is what it is (lord knows I'd love copy/paste).

But anyway, the real reason I came here is because it no longer says AT&T at the top... it's just the bars and the wifi or edge symbol... is that normal? or did something screw up in my update?

RoCKSTaH53

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

cbandes — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:38:40 EST

My update went fine, though I had restored to a non-jailbroken 1.1.2 a while back. I really like the webclip thingy, though the faux-gps seems very uninspiring to me (it could narrow me down to what city I am in, but that's about all)

I'm still disappointed that there's no spamfilter.

cbandes

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

chocmatic — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:38:18 EST

Treo's have been doing this since they came out!

Multi-recipient SMS is exactly what it sounds like. Pick more than one recipient, send a message, and it gets delivered to everyone. What's nice is that this set of people get saved as a "conversation" so you can send more messages to them without having to type in their names again.

chocmatic

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

MacAir — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:31:45 EST

Just updated to 1.1.3 and all features are great! Can't wait for more...

MacAir

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

chimpan-a — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:19:10 EST

how about landscape typing in email and txt messaging? I've never understood why this extremely useful feature is restricted to Safari, where I type the least.

chimpan-a

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

iSmoteThee — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:02:10 EST

@The Great Aussie Evil:

Here, here. Is it that freaking hard for them to build in such a basic feature?

iSmoteThee

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

fadedb8ta — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:01:42 EST

Check your new mailbox features. Theres more than just Inbox, Sent Mail and Trash. Also check out the google homepage, there are new tabs at the top allowing for the calendar and reader, etc. etc.

fadedb8ta

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

geeoph — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:59:02 EST

Wow. Attempted to upgrade my touch to 1.1.3, and it DEFINITELY sent it into recovery mode, forcing me to erase all my data...

geeoph

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

MacRule36 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:57:54 EST

I have been trying to update for an hour and it downloads the update file okay but stops when I try to install the file on the phone. Says that the iPhone software update server can't be contacted and to try back later. Any ideas how I can get past this? Updated to 7.6 and everything. Am I the only one?

MacRule36

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

fadedb8ta — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:56:40 EST

Hey, check out the Gmail application, you now have more than just an Inbox, Sent Mail and Trash. A few other things if you go to the Google.com page.

fadedb8ta

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

NNTPgrip — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:56:27 EST

Would have been cool MMS or at least Copy/Paste, but to tell you the truth I would just like a game, a least one damn game (not on the web "2.0", but installed). The SDK can come fast enough, hopefully there will be at least one decent game and a decent app or two from the sea of crap that will flood in.

Also, some sort of Venturi type deal in the underguts of the software to speed the EDGE tube a bit.

NNTPgrip

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

blazedshaggy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:55:41 EST

woo hoo!! seven minutes to download then it's time to figure out where the hell i am!!

blazedshaggy

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

kaushalmodi — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:55:39 EST

@SockMonkey: I haven't owned an iPod so I don't know what you are talking about. But earlier I was able to listen to the music on iPhone while it was connected to iTunes and charging.

kaushalmodi

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

bandit — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:54:23 EST

No improvements to the PHONE functionality? Arg. How hard would it be to program an audible reminder that you have missed a call or have voicemail waiting? I can't tell you how many times I've gone hours without returning a call because I didn't realize I got one (partly because the volume is low and the vibrate is weak on the phone -- but I know that can't be fixed). And it would be nice to have a few non-childish ringtones so I don't turn bright red when I'm in a meeting and someone calls. Lots of other shortcomings could be easily fixed, like a vibrate-then-ring option, which is really the most useful mode for any phone. Why do they continually ignore the shortcomings of the PHONE features? I like the iPhone on balance, but I find that I can't recommend it to friends and family as a phone replacement because it is so far behind in terms of basic and important cellphone functions.

bandit

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

heferton — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:53:09 EST

Any idea if this will affect turbosim or stealth sim? Will it block them?

heferton

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

SockMonkey — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:49:04 EST

You can also play songs now right from the iPhone when connected to iTunes like you have been able to do with iPods for years.

Disk mode is not yet available.

I installed iTunes 7.6 so I don't know if these options are available in 7.5.

SockMonkey

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

deeboo626 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:48:07 EST

so i just tried to install 1.1.3 on my iphone and it completely ruined it...my mac doesn't recognize the phone anymore and on the iphone screen it just shows that plug with an arrow pointing to the itunes icon, like when the phone first comes out of the box...i hadn't jailbroken my phone or anything...not sure what to do...

deeboo626

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

MikeRapin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:45:51 EST

Any word on how to view lyrics for songs? I have a ton of lyrics for songs on my iPod Touch and I'm assuming the action to view lyrics is the same on the iPhone.

MikeRapin

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

The Great Aussie Evil — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:43:49 EST

And yet, copy and paste is STILL left out.

The Great Aussie Evil

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

STPGoose — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:43:24 EST

I can't wait to install it when I get home =)

Oh Mr. Jobs, thank you good sir.

STPGoose

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

IKEACAR — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:43:03 EST

It's pretty slick. I like it. It will be great when third party apps are supported, but I don't see myself filling 9 pages of web links, I use my bookmarks for those.

I do like that you can slide the home screen over with your thumb and tap an icon on another page with your index finger while keeping your thumb on the screen and it will open, and when you hit the home button it goes back to the main screen and not the second home screen. Hard to explain, but try it and you'll see what I mean.

IKEACAR

Hands-on With iPhone Firmware 1.1.3

SockMonkey — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:40:51 EST

And you can manually manage your music and videos now instead of sync only! About time!

SockMonkey