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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 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