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Gear Live posts followup iPhone v1.1.3 video
You may recall that yesterday we posted a link to Gear Live's gallery of iPhone v1.1.3 snaps. In this season of rumors, we were trying to take it with a pinch of salt; we ended up with enough salt to make some Margaritas here at TUAW HQ, such was our skepticism -- and we were, it would seem, quite wrong to have doubted.Thankfully Gear Live's Andru Edwards & Nate True decided to show us all what we can expect, with a full-blown video of the latest firmware, embedded after the break (all 8 minutes of it) with their permission. There's a tonne of exciting stuff shown off -- saving of pins on Google Maps, cell-tower triangulation with a single click (sweet!) and the long-missed hybrid Google Map (my preferred view). Throw in the re-arranging of the home screen and multiple SMS recipients (something we'd quite like to use over the holiday period) -- my iPhone is feeling very inadequate already.
Thanks Andru!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
(01) said 8:37PM on 12-30-2007
First? Looks pretty sweet, and stuff like this definitely makes me want to not jailbreak my phone and just wait for the SDK...so close....
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iskeptic said 8:57PM on 12-30-2007
anyone think its strange that the carrier icon is hacked on the video???
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meatmcguffin said 9:00PM on 12-30-2007
If you chance the carrier name and icon, they are not changed back after a software update. This also happens if you change it on 1.1.2 and then do a firmware restore.
Fernando said 11:33AM on 12-31-2007
Also I think its strange how in the beginning of the video his camera cannot focus on the small text on the about screen to show the version. But then in the walk through video itself it sure is but he conveniently does not show it. I call it a HOAX. I mean come on now you think AAPL would just let this guy get away with this type of information? Their lawyers would be all over his ass faster then you can say "thinksecret"!!!
meatmcguffin said 8:59PM on 12-30-2007
I've just realised what's going on here.
Gearlive receive the update from an anonymous person just after xmas. I reckon that Apple have given them the update themselves to show the new features to the public. Why? To make the people who received an iPhone / Touch at Xmas think twice before jailbreaking it.
Genius.
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Josh said 9:06PM on 12-30-2007
I think you hit the nail on the head with that one.
meatmcguffin said 9:09PM on 12-30-2007
Thinking about it some more, it also explains why there are no cease and desists from Apple and why gearlive are so happy flaunting this all over the net. In the wake of what happened to thinksecret, i don't think i would be so....obvious.
ddebor said 9:32PM on 12-30-2007
The only problem with that theory is this. Why wouldn't Apple release it themselves in one their "Guided Tours?" Surely if they did it it would still gain tons of attention.
Regardless, they got it somehow and it looks pretty legit. I can't wait, it's just one more sign of good things to come after the SDK.
Ryan said 11:50PM on 12-30-2007
I think someone from Apple's iPhone team secretly released this, because I'm sure even Apple employees jailbreak their phones. This one person just wanted to spark development and hacking on it before it was released.
Kerry said 5:06PM on 1-12-2008
I see no reason to Jailbreak your Itouch since you can restore it back to the original firmware. I have done jailbreak on mine and restored it 5 or 6 times just to prove that you can do it.
Jon said 10:24PM on 12-30-2007
it's funny how they don't show you how to move between the pages of the homescreen
other than that this update looks pretty neat
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JR said 11:02PM on 12-30-2007
He doesn't implicitly show you how, but to anyone who's jailbroken their iPhone and installed multiple apps will know that you just flick your finger from left to right in the same way you would move from picture to picture.
He does this in the video.
Yaphi said 9:08PM on 12-30-2007
Stop posting non iPhone friendly flash videos!
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Nik Fletcher said 9:18PM on 12-30-2007
Yaphi,
If we could post in any format, we would. It's all about the sources :-)
Shawna Christensen said 9:42PM on 12-30-2007
You can get an iPod/iPhone-formatted version at GearLive's site, as well as AppleTV, Xvid, and 3GP.
Link to iPod version: http://blip.tv/file/get/Bleedingedge-BleedingEdgeTV195IPhone113367.m4v
Yaphi said 9:54AM on 12-31-2007
Thank you for the tip!
Jah said 9:13PM on 12-30-2007
great video. And super fastnews. 1.1.3 looks awesome
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-J said 9:12PM on 12-30-2007
Is "tonne" a word I don't know or a type?
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Nik Fletcher said 9:17PM on 12-30-2007
It's an British-ism :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton:
"In the UK and most of the areas which used the Imperial system, the metric tonne (1,000 kg), which it is conveniently very similar to—less than 2% difference—is the only form of ton legal for trade."
-J said 9:29PM on 12-30-2007
Ha! I need to think more globally! Could not find it in my American English dictionary here. I learn new things every day!