All the rumours and guesses are over. Apple’s next generation iPhone 3G[S] is announced officially. Apple is not removing their old iPhone 3G at this time. They’ll start selling iPhone 3G for 99$ in US and new iPhone 3G[S] will be sold for 199$ and 299$ for 16 and 32 GB respectively.
iPhone 3G and iPhone 3G[S] both are loaded with iPhone 3.0. So from software point of view both are same. The difference in iPhone 3G[S] is hardware. iPhone 3G[S] has better processor, additional ram, good camera and compass.
Main highlights of iPhone 3G[S]
Better processing power. Almost everything is 2 times faster than iPhone 3G
3 Mega pixel auto focus camera for great picture quality. By tapping on image you can set your focus point.
It can record 30FPS high quality VGA video in landscape and portrait mode.
Voice controls for calling your contacts or playing your song lists. It allows you to query information regarding a playing song.
Build in digital Compass, which reorients maps in the direction you are facing. Also it is a new technology for developers. I am sure that we’ll see some great application and games by using compass.
Cut, Copy and paste across applications.
Landscape keyboard layout for messaging and emailing.
Send text, pic, video, location or contact to anyone. You can even forward messages to others.
Spotlight search. One search for all your contacts, emails, calendars, notes, songs and videos.
Surf the web from practically anywhere. Now you can share the 3G connection on your iPhone with your Mac notebook or PC laptop.
Google latitude is new feature in google maps on the mobile devices. Application allows you to determine the location of your friends around you who have decided to share their location with you.
The next step after locating friends, you may want to contact them. Google has provided SMS, Google Talk, and Gmail support to do this. Check out this cool video for more information.
If you are having problem in finding ATM or Movie Theater near to you, then Earthcomber is the application you are looking for. This application let you choose your liking from a huge list and it will keep you apprised of what’s around that fits your world.
This application has data/information about USA only as of now. So if you belong to any other location then you need to wait for some time. It might include data from your country too.
Features
1. Compressive, diverse local content, including rating and reviews
2. Works with GPS to instantly scan your area, or you can set your location to somewhere else in USA to get a feel of the place. It can help you in planning your trip
3. Automatically refreshes your location, this helps while you are moving.
Notes:
1. It will tax your iPhone battery. So use it when you want it.
Earthcomber is available in iTune’s App library for free.
MPlayer for iPhone supports mpeg4, h.264, wmv, mp3, aac, wma, real media, and t-dmb formats. It is good to have more supported movie formats for iPhone so that you don’t need to convert favorite movies to MP4 format before playing them on iPhone. To do that, you need to install MPlayer. Below are the steps to install MPlayer in iPhone
1. Make sure that yours is jailbroken iPhone as MPlayer is only available for jailbroken iPhones which have 2.0 or above firmware. So if your iPhone is having lower firmware version you need to update it to 2.0 or above.
2. Open Cydia installer app.
3. Update all the pending updates in Cydia installer.
4. Search MPlayer in search section of Cydia installer.
5. Tap on install button. It’ll install MPlayer in the iPhone
6. Connect iPhone to WinSCP and go to /private/var path
7. Look for media folder and if there is no media folder in this location then create one. This is the folder which will contain all the MPlayer’s playable files.
8. Copy movie files to /private/var/media directory.
9. Open MPlayer in iPhone. It will show you the list of all files present in above folder.
10. Tap on any file you would like to play.
iPhone browser let you browse file in window explorer fashion. You can download iPhone browser from here
By using iPhone browser, you can take back up of files and folders from your iPhone to computer. The backup you take by this browser is not very user friendly. It simply dumps iPhone files without doing any changes. It might not be very useful to use such backups in your computer but it does help a lot when you want to restore these files to iPhone. To restore these files simple drag and drop files to appropriate location in iPhone browser.
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