Preview: Firmware 3.1 Features/Enhancements List

New Features/Enhancements To Firmware 3.1 CONFIRMED

• Firmware updated to 3.1 7C116a ***
• 307MB Firmware Size ***
• Updated modem firmware to 05.11.04 ***
• Updated AT&T profile to 4.5 **
• Copy and paste videos ***
• Tethering data usage added to Settings ***
• Augmented reality apps, applications made from real-world objects seen through a camera.
• iPhone does not vibrate when moving icons ***
• Voice Control now works over Bluetooth, meaning wireless headphone now will work *
• MMS now only allows a maximum of 5 photos sent at once **
• Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz, 15 new options to play with *
• APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them *
• MMS buttons are back in the Messages app for AT&T customers but still don’t work *
• TOTAL elimination of cracked apps, new process that MUST verify AppStore Apps integrity before allowing them to run ***
• Fraud Protection Toggle in Safari Settings *
• Copy/Paste functions works in the address book and in the numeric keypad of the phone application ***
• Imporvement in the performance of the Compass on the 3GS **
• Directional orientation in Google Maps is now more accurate **
• Developers can now monitor/debug their apps over Wi-Fi **
• The ability to save video attachments to your photo album **
• The “Save” and “Save as Copy” options have been changed to “Trim Original” and “Save as New Clip”**
• Faster Launch/Boot Times/Speed Boosts **
• Improved battery life, iPhone 3G & 3GS only **
• Bug fixes **

New Features/Enhancements To Firmware 3.1 UNCONFIRMED

• More accurate showings on the batter %
• Battery % for all devices-toggle
• Password protecting the "Find my iPhone"-toggle
• Now iTunes store icons will move back to their default position after closing the app
• iPhone/iPod Touch Firmware 3.1 available for download on Mid August- Early September

WARNING #1: Since the iPhone baseband will be updated to 05.11.04from the previous 4.26.08, this will mean that the ultrasn0w unlock method will be blocked. For those who want to have an unlocked iPhone on 3.1 DO NOT UPGRADE to 3.1 until ultrasn0w has been updated to work on 3.1 iPhones.

WARNING #2: Since AT&T updated the carrier profile version, 4.5 from 4.0. This is will terminate the popular IPCC tethering hack that has been going around on the internet because of the arbitrary-looking "signatures" that are now attached to MMS and VVM.

* Indicates that this was included in iPhone 3.1 Beta 1
** Indicates that this was included in iPhone 3.1 Beta 2
*** Indicates that this was included in iPhone 3.1 Beta 3

Updated: 7/30/09 @ 12:05 PM

**I WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE THIS THREAD UNTIL THE OFFICIAL RELEASE**

omg, when is MMS coming?
copy paste in the phone app?
i'm not sure about the vibrating while moving icons thing, i hope that's a setting.

thanks for this thread, it's a nice list. what are your sources?

sorry if this a newbie question, but will a 3.1 be another 10 bucks?

nope. only major updates, like 2.0, 3.0.
3.1
3.2
3.3
they will all be free

So will upgrading from 2.2.1 to 3.1 be free?

3.1 is an update of 3.0. So you have to pay for upgrading to the 3.0 tier.

I guess MMS is there but doesn't quite work yet.
As for the copy and paste, u can paste a # into you phone app when u wanna call someone. Now you can.


My sources are the first three pages of google when I searched "iPhone 3.1 Fearures".

You're telling me I could e-mail myself a movie, then save it to my camera roll?

but i swear 1.1.6 or something like that 1.1.3 cost moneyz.

Anyway, how would this improve battery life?

Where do you have this?