iPhone 1.1.3 Update
Update: As announced at MacWorld 2008 today, iPhone update 1.1.3 is out today and you can get it via iTunes. The feature list is as we had expected previously. Webclips (website shortcuts on your home screen) remember zoomed or panned to locations on the website! iPod also adds a Lyrics feature. iTunes allows for watching of Rented movies with chapter support.
In addition to the free 1.1.3 firmware update, current iPod touch owners can buy 5 new apps (Mail, Stocks, Notes, Weather and Maps) for $20. The new iPod touch apps are sold through the iTunes store. For more details visit the Apple website.
So, are you going to buy the 5 new iPod touch apps for $20? Take the Survey here.
Update: Another new feature in the January 2008 1.1.3 software update is the ability to do two-finger touch typing with the virtual keyboard. Basically now you don’t have to lift your finger to type another letter. You can type one letter with one finger, keep your finger on the first letter, and type another letter with your other finger. This gives you the ability to use the Shift key like you do on a regular keyboard. Typing should also be easier with two hands, which should please ex blackberry users. Apple has also increased the limit for text message storage from 1,000 to about 75,000.
Here is the original leaked information:
According to numerous sources, sometime next week you can expect to see an iPhone firmware update (1.1.3) from Apple. This new version offers lots of bug fixes and many new features:
- Hybrid map view in Google Maps
- Drag and Drop application icons on the home screen. Press and hold the icons until they start to wiggle. Now you can drag the icons around, even in and out of the dock or to a new page.
- Pagination capability, so you can now have more than 16 application icons on the home screen with up to 9 pages.
- Add any website bookmark to the home screen with an icon.
- Send SMS messages to multiple recipients, a highly requested feature.
- Find your current location in the Google Maps app using cell tower triangulation, emulating GPS features. Drop pin is another new feature.
Here’s the video showing the springboard icon dragging and pagination support:
Here is the official video demo from Apple:
Survey
Do you plan to upgrade your iPhone to 1.1.3?
- Yes, I want the new features! (61%, 964 Votes)
- I’ll wait and see (23%, 360 Votes)
- No, I can’t or don’t want to. (16%, 252 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,576
Loading …Update: The iPhone development community has jailbroken 1.1.3, although it is not yet released to the public. This hack apparently required hardware modification. Here is a video demo of 1.1.3 hacked and running Installer.app.
Be aware that this update, much like the first firmware update will disable any jailbreak changes or hacks you might have made. If you make use of unofficial third-party iPhone applications and would to keep using them on your iPhone, you may want to refrain from updating to iPhone software/firmware 1.1.3.
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yah i paid for and synced my itouch for the new upgrade.. and nothing! it actually charged me 3 times for it!!! what the heck!
as for the updates for the touch…just go to apple.com and follow the directions.
You can set up itunes through PayPal…(and set up paypal with a US address) then you can use itunes. the key is that your credit card billing address must be faked with a US adress. I did it and it worked fine for me. Im not sure how well it will work with credit cards from other countries…BTW…I’m in South Korea
**IMPORTANT***
THE DOWNLOAD FOR 1.1.3 DOES NOT, I REPEAT, DOES NOT CONTAIN THE 5 NEW APPLICATIONS. IN ORDER TO GET THE NEW APPLICATIONS YOU MUST FIRST UPGRADE TO THE (FREE) 1.1.3 SOFTWARE, AND THEN PURCHASE AND DOWNLOAD THE JANUARY 2008 SOFTWARE UPGRADE OFF OF APPLE.COM
GOODNESS GRACIOUS LEARN TO READ THE FINE PRINT
I paid for and downloaded 1.1.3 and did not get any of the 5 advertised apps for my iPod touch? Why did this happen and how do I fix?
Also purchased upgrade for the new apps…
didn’t work..
I’m getting rather annoyed.
Another one here. Bought 20$ upgrade, no new stuff.
One more here, updated iTunes, updated iTouch to 1.1.3 and bought the $20 upgrade. Synched and got nothing new on the iPod.
What’s up with that?
I also bought the upgrade, synched, no sign of the new stuff
Bought the upgrade, synced with the touch. No sign of new apps
I just installed the 1.1.3 and found out that since I live in a country with no iTunes store there’s no much use for this update. APPLE!! What about your international clients that have no iTunes???
its awesome!! I just got the update for the touch and bought the 20 dollar upgrade and its worth it. Ya hoooo
The iPod touch will defiantly get firmware update very soon (more than likely this week) and I wouldn’t be surprised if it gets the Google Maps application thrown in for good measure.
Seeing as the SDK will most defiantly be announced and shown for 3rd party app developers, for both iPhone and touch you can bet Apple will have a few surprises for touch users. By all accounts they will probably release iTunes 8 (or maybe 7.6) with loads of new stuff for organising your iPod/iPhone applications.
Maybe ‘There’s Something In The Air’ tagline apple is using on the posters means the iPod touch dose have Bluetooth after all, well, that’s just wishful thinking.
New iPhone Trojan Spreading
added January 9, 2008 at 10:10 am
US-CERT has received reports of a new Trojan horse program that affects the Apple iPhone. This Trojan claims to be a tool used to prepare the device for an upgrade to firmware version 1.1.3. When a user installs the Trojan, other application components are altered. If the Trojan is uninstalled, the affected applications may also be removed.
US-CERT strongly encourages users to install updates and application software only from trusted sources.
Hey, anyone know if the Touch will get this?
And anyone know if it’s possible to read prior comments before posting mine?
will the touch have this??
I heard from gear live that some of the update will be on the touch but like the google maps thing and
SMS thing won’t since
touch doesnt have apps like that
I also want to know if this applies to iTouch?
it’s taking way too long this time… release it already!
will this work with itouch?