iPhone update to add TV out?

Astute TUAW reader Matt Nelson noticed something in Engadget's O2 iPhone hands on gallery that seem to portend some new features coming down the pike for us iPhone users. You may recall that Apple listed some TV out cables as being iPhone compatible, and then quickly fixed that 'error.' If you take a look at the shot above you'll see the O2 iPhone, which is running an unreleased version of the iPhone software, has a new 'TV Out' setting section. Looks like you'll be able to buy some iPhone ready video cables soon enough.
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Astute TUAW reader Matt Nelson noticed something in Engadget's O2 iPhone hands on gallery that seem to portend some new features coming...
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How about audio out via the dock connector? Will this enable that also?
September 20 2007 at 10:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply50$ more for the cable?
September 19 2007 at 4:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThis is as good as a confirmed feature. I called them the day they put that thing up and talked to a tech guy. Also I asked a sales rep about this the other day and he said that the tv out function is not currently available. Sounds like itll be pretty cool to have.
September 18 2007 at 11:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replyhope they add the option to keep sms messages from popping up at the most inopportune time when people wanna look at my phone and its something they should not be reading i hate that
and it shows ntsc out - the north american standard - our friends cross the pond use pal!
September 18 2007 at 6:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replywhen the new component and composite cables showed up in the Apple store they showed the iPhone as compatible - I checked again today and they have removed the iPhone icon.
Really hoping that the iPhone will get TV-out
@10:
If you read the Engadget post, you'll find that the T-Mobile iPhone is an unlocked iPhone (i.e, one owned by an Engadget writer who unlocked it with a third-party unlocking tool) running on the British T-Mobile network.
@16:
I think that's the point of the article: the iPod touch has the ability to export video through the dock connector, but the iPhone does not have that feature yet. Apple's website initially indicated that both the iPod touch and the iPhone had this feature, but then changed their copy to exclude the iPhone. Now, it looks like that feature will be added to the iPhone in soon-to-be-released firmware update.
Anyway - that summary aside - I'd love to see this come to the iPhone. I've got some TV shows that I'd love to watch with my wife but it's hard to do that with both of us sitting close to the phone in my hand or on the desk. TV out would totally fix this.
@10 - Thats for germany iirc
@15 - 73F is 23C
@13 et al - What on earth are you on about?
I was playing around with an iPod Touch at an apple store yesterday and it had the same TV Out option. I do not remember the firmware version number.
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