iPhone 1.1.3 Features and Screenshots? Locate Me, Movable Icons, More... [Video]
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.
Dragging the Mail icon
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.
Update: Gizmodo posts a video of the 1.1.3 firmware with further claims that it is legitimate:
Dragging the Mail icon
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.
Update: Gizmodo posts a video of the 1.1.3 firmware with further claims that it is legitimate:
Nate says that "it installs on the phone no-questions-asked and for that you need to have Apple's private key, which i can confirm that the iphone hacker community does not haveas much as we would love to have it." Indeed, Apple's private encrypted key, used to authenticate all accesses to the iPhone most-private guts, hasn't been uncovered yet by anyone in the world.
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54 months ago
Story: http://www.gearlive.com/news/article/q407-iphone-113-firmware-feature-gallery/
Direct to pictures: http://www.gearlive.com/gallery/category/C51
From the site:
The ability to send an SMS message to multiple people is now there
Google Maps application can now pinpoint your location using cell tower triangulation
Google Maps can now display the Hybrid map view
You can now drag and drop application icons on your home screen
The home screen supports pagination
You can now add web bookmarks to your home screen
My take:
Page Curl effect on the map page is a nice touch.
Triangulation, nice.
Home page options, very good.
Multiple people SMS good but still no MMS... on a 399 phone. :(
No info on notification frequency or length options.
No new apps.... :(
But still good for a X.X.1 update, hope this isn't the big MacWorld reveal...:rolleyes:
discuss....
Direct to pictures: http://www.gearlive.com/gallery/category/C51
From the site:
The ability to send an SMS message to multiple people is now there
Google Maps application can now pinpoint your location using cell tower triangulation
Google Maps can now display the Hybrid map view
You can now drag and drop application icons on your home screen
The home screen supports pagination
You can now add web bookmarks to your home screen
My take:
Page Curl effect on the map page is a nice touch.
Triangulation, nice.
Home page options, very good.
Multiple people SMS good but still no MMS... on a 399 phone. :(
No info on notification frequency or length options.
No new apps.... :(
But still good for a X.X.1 update, hope this isn't the big MacWorld reveal...:rolleyes:
discuss....
54 months ago
"Until it starts to wiggle."
I fully expect this to be a feature of Mac OS X 10.6. "To move your icons, just click and hold until they begin to wiggle." That said, I don't believe any screenshots because of how easy it is to manipulate a jailbroken phone. But I think the manipulation of home screen is a given with third-party apps on the horizon.
I want an Apple-provided solution to a wallpaper on my home screen, so I'm not using something on par with ShapeShifter.
I fully expect this to be a feature of Mac OS X 10.6. "To move your icons, just click and hold until they begin to wiggle." That said, I don't believe any screenshots because of how easy it is to manipulate a jailbroken phone. But I think the manipulation of home screen is a given with third-party apps on the horizon.
I want an Apple-provided solution to a wallpaper on my home screen, so I'm not using something on par with ShapeShifter.
54 months ago
Interesting feature set if true! It would say a lot about Apple's willingness to let iPhone users customize their phones to their liking (ie the customizable home screen). Plus, a rearrangeable home screen would certainly be a logical step towards the SDK release as well. Thanks for passing this along.
54 months ago
I wouldn't be surprised either way. ...If these features are for real, I wonder if they'll be available for the iPod Touch as well.
54 months ago
I am at 1.1.1 and this...this will have me upgrade immediately. Bravo if this is shopped!
54 months ago
Im stil on 1.0.2 and very happy user. My phone is unlock so they have to come with something really important to make me upgrade. That doesn't look like it!:cool:
54 months ago
Everything comes in bits and pieces. I love the iPhone, but something (aliens?) made me wait until version 2.0
54 months ago
WOW, If all that is in there, ill immediately, and happily upgrade, even if it means losing installer.app, i don't care. Those are some necessary features that should have been there a ling time ago.......
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