FeediPhone 3.0 Update Just Went Live
Written by NetBear on June 17, 2009 – 10:43 am -Geek bears, start your downloads! Minutes ago Apple released the long awaited version 3.0 software upgrade for the über popular iPhone.
The update brings with it just about every feature the phone should have had from the start - and a whole lot more. But what CAN you do with it? We’ve got some suggestions to help get you started.
1. Cut/Copy/Paste: Hallelujah! I cans cut, copy and paste! Hold your finger in place in any text field until the magnification lens comes up. When you let go, you’ll have the option to “Select”, “Select all”, or “Paste”. The “Select” option will spawn a little overlay - drag that around to find the text you want, then hit copy or cut. Go somewhere else, hold, paste. Tada!
2. Scrub a song: Trying to jump to a certain point in an audio file (especially long ones like podcasts and audio books) used to suck on the iPhone. It just never seems like you can find the right spot. 3.0 makes the process a lot less painful by way of the refined scrubbing system; just grab the little marker as you always would. Keep your finger on the marker, but slide it down a little; this turns on half speed scrubbing mode, allowing for more finely tuned selections. Go a bit further down, and you enter quarter speed scrubbing mode. If you drag the marker upward instead, scrubbing becomes less granular.
3. Rate a YouTube video: YouTube videos on the iPhone have always been excellent - but the application itself has kind of sucked compared to others. In 3.0, it has nearly every function you’d expect of a YouTube client, from commenting to rating and account management. Hurray! Now you can read YouTube comments and lose faith in humanity no matter where you are!
4. Record a voice memo: If you have nothing important to say, freestyle an ode to bears and send it to us.
5. Landscape support everywhere: If it’s an app that came loaded on your iPhone right out of the box, it should have landscape support now. No more poking and pecking in email; thumb-typists (like myself) rejoice!
6. Shake to undo: Write a really nasty text message to your ex or soon to be ex, count to 30, and then shake the iPhone. Hit “Undo”. Or don’t shake it, hit “Send”, and see what happens. It’s your choice.
Why six suggestions? Well, 3.0 x 2 = 6. Infallible logic, eh? Actually we didn’t want to steel all the thunder from MobileCrunch. Read the whole article there.
By Wes on Jun 18, 2009 6:12:21 AM | Reply
I am digging the new updates, but damn you AT&T where the hell is my MMS support?
By NetBear on Jun 18, 2009 11:39:32 AM | Reply
I know… Stick it to us every month for Text Messages and access… But can’t keep up on the frickin’ features? Meh!