iPhone 1.1.3 features revealed!
Macrumors has some very exciting news about the upcoming iPhone 1.1.3 release.
GearLive claims to have played with the upcoming iPhone 1.1.3 firmware update and reveals a number of new features to be included to the latest version of the iPhone’s software.
The new features are shown in a screenshot gallery. Amongst the new features depicted:
- Edit Home Screen - Rearrange icons on your home screen
- Drag icons around with your finger
- Locate Me integration (pseudo-GPS) with Google Maps
- Another screenshot of Locate Me
- Send SMS to multiple people
- Add Safari Bookmarks to your Home Screen (example)
- Mirror of some images provided in comments thread.The features shown do not correlate with some earlier rumors of the upcoming 1.1.3 firmware. GearLive has not previously been a known source rumors or images of upcoming Apple products. These new screenshots, however, appear convincing on casual inspection.
All of the new features are very exciting and much needed, this also shows that Apple is continuously working to make the iPhone a stronger phone and a stronger computing platform. The homepage editing feature is long coming, and obviously brought upon by the upcoming SDK release in February. But even for web-apps this is going to be a huge improvement. No longer will I have to leave apps like PocketTweets open, sucking down the iPhone memory. I just have to tap a button and the page will load for me. This is a feature that should have been in it since day one.
The other improvements are little things to make the phone better. Locate me is great, especially if you are like me and have no sense of direction and multiple SMS messages is a given. What I am disappointed in is no MMS yet, no AIM, and there is no video functionality yet announced. These are things Apple needs to get out into the public before the SDK is released, otherwise developers are going to take over what Apples wants to be a closed platform. You give me Video, MMS, and AIM and I’ll probably have no need for any other third party apps.
Maybe a native twitter app, but that’s because I’m a freak.
Leave a Reply