iPhone OS 3.1.2 Released
A month after Apple made iPhone OS 3.1 available, version 3.1.2 for the iPhone and iPod touch can now be downloaded via iTunes.
Besides achieving version synchronicity (3.1.1 came with the 3G iPod touch), the update addresses issues with waking from sleep, cellular network disruption, and crashes while streaming video.
The most notable problem, the “iPhone coma” issue, resulted in some iPhones becoming unresponsive, touch controls not working, and phone not ringing when called. This required a hard reboot, but that was only a workaround. It’s still too early to tell whether 3.1.2 is a true fix for that pernicious issue.
Unfortunately, what was not addressed in the terse update log at all was battery life. That’s a little irritating because the problem has been acknowledged by Apple as “under investigation.” While fixes for issues relating to loss of network connection or random crashing/freezing are always welcome, those issues seem to affect a relatively small number of users. The battery life problem likely impacts most iPhones, if not most iPhone owners, the latter being dependent on how the individual uses the iPhone. Still, one hopes there is an iPhone OS update coming that will address the power management issue, and sooner rather than later.
In addition to the iPhone OS update, there is also a carrier update, version 5.6, but no info on what it does.
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TomTom for iPhone Released [Video]
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After our report yesterday that in-car GPS system TomTom had released an iPhone app in New Zealand, it appears the app is now available for purchase elsewhere, including the US and UK. Mapping data is available for New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, US & Canada and Western Europe [iTunes link].
Obviously you’ll need an iPhone 3G or 3GS to make it work. What’s more, it’s not cheap: in the region of $100. However, in most cases that’s much cheaper than a standalone GPS unit.
UK site Recombu downloaded the app and took it for a test drive (video below). While it comes highly recommended, the app does of course pause when you receive an inbound phone call.
Upload Video from iPhone 3G S to Multiple Social Sites With Posterous
Yesterday, we told you about Posterous’ attempt to take over the blogosphere with their new import option. Now they’re back with bigger and better news: support for email uploads for iPhone 3G S videos to practically any social site, including Twitter and Facebook.
Posterous is already a great distributor of your content since you can auto-tweet and post to a variety of other sites. So, with support for iPhone 3G S videos, Posterous is not only taking on TwitPic, but they’re also positioning themselves as a video for any platform service.
You can now share video with Posterous, and any additional site configured for auto-posting, simply by emailing your video to the appropriate Posterous email address. You can even shoot in whatever mode you’d like – landscape or standard – and not have to worry about how the video will be oriented on the web. Just click share on the video and email away to post everywhere (post@posterous,com), or just to specific services (for example, twitter@posterous.com).
Technically you could post video to Posterous via email previously, but they ramped up their support for iPhone videos to automatically render them properly, regardless of whether or not you shoot in landscape mood (trust me, this is fantastic and not supported by many other services), in a flash player that’s appropriate for the video. They’ve also increased overall video quality and updated the service to support the 3g2 and amr mobile formats for audio.
A few bonuses of using Posterous from your iPhone 3G S include the ability to download your video files (a standard feature of the service), video upload by email even when you’re not connected to a WiFi network (a huge shortcoming of other apps), and audio posting to Posterous using the native Voice Memos app.
Basically, Posterous provides the most convenient way to post video from your new iPhone and distribute it to your respective social sites that we’ve seen so far.
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