Apple

1. Cut/Paste, Copy/Paste
2. Shake to undo/redo typing
3. Text selection for easy mass deletion
4. MMS
5. Landscape keyboard in Notes, Mail, Messages
6. Forward or Delete individual texts or picture messages
7. Sending progress bar in Messages app moved to title instead of over the keyboard area (allows typing new message while the first one is sending)
8. USB and Bluetooth tethering
   Stereo bluetooth (A2DP)
9. Spotlight search (searches all app titles, mail, media, contact details, and calendar appointments)
10. Search in Notes, Mail, iPod
11. In-App purchases
12. Option to have double clicking the home button go to the Camera/Spotlight search
13. Preview icon in lower left hand corner for last shot taken in Camera app
14. Shake to shuffle in iPod
15. Scrolling of screenshots in App Store
16. Type of phone used under each call in Recents (i.e., mobile, home, work, etc.)
17. Call history log (including call duration)
18. Option to Share Contact in each contact listing
19. Hold link in Safari to Copy or Open in New Page
20. Auto Fill contact information, usernames and passwords in Safari
21. Login to your YouTube account, see comments, subscribe or rate favorite clips
22. Option to retry sending failed text messages, indicated by red exclamation point next to text
23. Turn-by-turn GPS capabilities
24. Maps can be run inside other applications
25. Access to dock port for accessories to communicate Read the rest of this entry »

Apple has released iphone

The iPhone 2.1 software update contains many bug fixes and improvements. To get it, connect your iPhone to your computer using iTunes 8 and click Check for Update.

Update includes:

• Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
• Significantly better battery life for most users
• Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
• Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
• Faster installation of 3rd party applications
• Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
• Improved performance in text messaging
• Faster loading and searching of contacts
• Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
• Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
• Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
• Genius playlist creation

You can find the update in itunes and we’ll have it here shortly:

Here you can get the new updates:
For 3G Iphone
For 2G Iphone

Just successfully updated my iPhone first generation to 2.0 firmare. It works great and I would like to share that method with all my readers.

You need following softwares and firmwares:

iTunes 7.5

iTunes 7.7

Original 2.0 Firmware

Custom 2.0 Firmware

1) Install iTunes 7.7 (you don’t need to uninstall previous version of iTunes), connect iPhone to PC, synchronize(to save all contacts and etc.), disconnect and close iTunes.

2) Open iTunes 7.7, connect your iPhone and hold Home + Sleep/Wake button until it put into Restore more

3) Restore iPhone to Original 2.0 Firmware via iTunes 7.7 (Holding SHIFT on your keyboard press Restore button and select iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw) Quit iTunes when iPhone will be restored.

4) Rename folder C:\Documents and Settings\Your windows account name\Application Data\Apple Computer to Apple Computer backup and My Documents\My Music\iTunes to iTunes backup.

5) Uninstall iTunes 7.7 via Control Panel

6) Install iTunes 7.5

7) Connect iPhone to PC using DFU mode

• Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep/Wake button at the same time.

• After exactly 10 seconds release the Sleep/Wake button. Continue holding the home button until you iTunes pops up a message telling you that it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode.
• The iPhone screen will remain black – important

This YouTube video should help you How to put your iPhone in DFU mode

8) Restore iPhone to Custom 2.0 Firmware (Holding SHIFT on your keyboard press Restore button and select 20_347_Cid.ipsw. If you get 16