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We all know about the cut, copy and paste, landscape keyborad, spotlight search and so on but that’s only about 20 or 30 of the 100 new features on the new Apple’s iPhone firmware 3.0 so where and what are the others?? So here is a list of 20 hidden features on the firmware 3.0:

• Adjustable Song Scrolling Speed
• Special Characters In Messaging
• More Ways to Access Spotlight
• Quote Fragment Within Reply in Mail
• Remove Individual Texts from A Conversation
• Open Link In New Tab In Safari
• Force Quit Unresponsive Apps
• Shake Phone to Undo Typing
• Change App Store Account On The Fly
• Unlimited Number of Apps Can Be Installed

• New options for the “Home” button
• New spoken text control buttons
• Copy and paste retains style and formatting
• Copy and paste works in all kinds of places
• Spotlight search: OIne hell of a great app launcher
• The Search feature is, like, everywhere
• Contacts are now sharable
• Set your iPhone’s contents to self-destruct
• Battery life can now be expressed as a percentage
• The YouTube app no longer sucks!

As promised by Apple, the firmware 3.0 is released on Wednesday afternoon

Firmware 3.0 features

In total, iPhone Software 3.0 delivers over 100 new features when compared to the previous version (2.2.1). Some of the more prominent enhancements include:

• Cut, Copy & Paste: Quickly cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select entire blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.
• Landscape Keyboard: Rotate iPhone to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Messages, Notes, and Safari.
• MMS: Send MMS messages and include video, photos, audio, and contact info. Even tap to snap a picture or shoot a video right inside Messages. MMS support for U.S.-based AT&T customers won’t be available until late summer.
• Spotlight Search: Find what you’re looking for across your iPhone, all from one place. Spotlight searches all of your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as everything in your iPod.
• Voice Memos: Capture a memo, a meeting, or any audio recording on the go. Voice Memos works with the built-in iPhone microphone or with the mic on your headset.
• Improved Calendar: Create meetings via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and subscribe to calendars with new CalDAV support.
• Buy Movies, TV Shows, and Audiobooks: Download movies, TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks from the iTunes Store on your iPhone.
• Safari Improvements: Enjoy faster performance, autofill user names and passwords, and more.
• Internet Tethering: Share your Internet connection with your laptop with Internet tethering via Bluetooth or USB. Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries.
• Stereo Bluetooth: Connect compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones, car kits, or other accessories.
• Automatic Wi-Fi Login: Log in to a Wi-Fi hotspot and iPhone automatically logs you in when you connect again.
• Sync Notes: Never leave a note behind. Now you can sync all the notes you write on your iPhone back to your Mac or PC.
• Parental Controls: Decide what music, videos, and apps your kids can access.
• iTunes Store Account: Create and log in to one or more iTunes Store accounts directly from your iPhone.
• YouTube Login: Log in to your YouTube account to save and sync bookmarks and rate favorites.
• Shake to Shuffle: Give iPhone a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.
• New Languages: iPhone supports 30 languages and more than 40 keyboard layouts.
• MobileMe Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe: Find your iPhone if you lose it and protect your privacy with Remote Wipe.
• Run the Latest Apps: Run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games and more.

Apple is releasing the new software 3.0 in June, the update will be released around the WWDC 2009 and has loads of improvements for both Developers and Users, for developers the new software features more then 1000 new API’s and new features such as: Push Notifications, Assessories App, In-App Purchase, embed Google Map in Apps, GPS turn by turn (not allowed to use Google maps) and more then 100 new features for both iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G, iPod touch users will have to pay for the update, and have limited features because it has no camera or GPS, bellow is a list of some of the most important features:

Cut, Copy and Paste with ’shake to Undo’- Text can be selected automatically by double tapping on text and movable grab points appear with a ‘cut, copy and paste’ edit bar above selection. You can copy text across applications.
Landscape Keyboard – This is what a jailbroken iPhone may already have but now in upcoming iPhone OS 3.0, a landscape keyboard is a built-in feature available in key applications, including Mail, SMS, Safari…
MMS – Along with sending multimedia stuff via email, in upcoming iPhone OS 3.0, iPhone 3G users will be able to send MMS messages too. (Sorry, iPhone 1st Gen users). iPhone users will also be able to delete and forward multiple messages. Send sound and Video using the messaging App.
Peer-to-Peer Connectivity – Peer-to-Peer connectivity is great for games and other applications for sharing data. This feature finds other devices and establish peer-to-peer connectivity over Bluetooth.  Through an IP connection, iPhone users will be able to play games. The feature is limited to Bonjour peer-to-peer devices only.

Accessories App (3rd Party) – This features will allow 3rd party iPhone accessory manufacturers to develop custom Apps to interface with their hardware accessories.

In-App Purchase – This feature will allow developers to sell additional stuff from within the App. Like purchasing new levels from within the game, subscribing for a magazine all from within an App.

Spotlight Search – In iPhone OS 3.0. an iPhone owner will find Apple’s Universal search feature named “Spotlight Search”. Spotlight feature can be found a flick to the left from the first screen of Apps. Using spotlight user will be able to search for mails in Mail App, Contacts, Appointments in  Calendar, media files in iPod, notes and more.

Voice Memos – Using iPhone OS 3.0, iPhone owners will be able to record, edit and send voice memos via both email and MMS.

Push Notification – A background-like process that doesn’t hamper battery life, utilize third-party server to push badge, text, email and audio alerts from applications as soon as they come.

Google Maps – Using iPhone firmware 3.0, developers will be able to embed Google Maps directly into their Applications.

GPS – Turn by TurnUsing CoreLocation, developers will be able to make application for turn by turn GPS directions

Apple has recently released an update for the iPhone firmware the 2.2.1 update has some stability fixes and safari improvement:
iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update

This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
• Improved general stability of Safari
• Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone
• iPhone 3G

2.2 Firmware

Apple has just released firmware 2.2 with the following updates:

• Enhancements to Maps
  • Google Street View
  • Public transport and walking directions
  • Display address of dropped pins
  • Share location via email
• Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls

• Enhancements to Mail
  • Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
  • Improved formatting of wide HTML email
• Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)

Google Street View

• Improved stability and performance of Safari
• Improved sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages
• Pressing Home button from any Home screen displays the first Home screen
• Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings