iPhone January update, coming soon to an iTunes near you

I don't know about you all, but considering I'm not in the market for a pricey, tiny notebook, and I don't need yet another thing hooked up to my TV, the best news I heard at the Keynote today was about this iPhone "January update" (does that mean there'll be one every month?) coming soon to your iTunes. Included in the free update to iPhone users:

An updated Maps that will actually find your location automatically by triangulating cell towers (we saw this a while ago), and give you the option to add a pin to the map
Web Clips, cutouts of web pages that you can attach to an icon sitting right there on the homescreen.
A customizable homescreen and dock (just hold an icon to get them wiggling, and then move them around as you please), and up to nine homescreen pages total
The update will also add chapter navigation for iPhone video, and subtitle/audio options as well.
And though the readers in our IRC channel weren't very impressed with this one, the iPhone will now feature multiple SMS sending.

Very awesome update for the iPhone, completely free and available on download in iTunes right now (!), and definitely an update that will set the stage for all the third party applications we're supposed to see next month. Bring on the SDK!

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Abono

Yes it does pop up every time i connect my Touchâ€¦ and the worst has yet to comeâ€¦ since i live in malta, a country with no music storeâ€¦ i cannot even buy the upgradeâ€¦ so when i press ok an error message always pop ups and then i can continue using my Touchâ€¦ and when i replied to apple about my problem they said that they are working on making the music store available as much as possibleâ€¦

February 14 2008 at 6:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nik

Upgrade?! I think you mean jailBREAK/downgrade.

I just use Blaze Softwares 1.1.3 svpatch and now my itunes is o-so fooled into thinking i am an upgrader. Silly apple.

February 13 2008 at 8:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rhon

As always Apple haven't thought very well about this update. They have become greedy. I-tunes is fine, but what for those millions of users who do NOT have access to an I-tunes store? Most of the time we have to pay already a premium at the apple stores and now Apple Thailand for instance simply has no clue where customers can buy an upgrade. Just give the F*%@ update for free, it is the reward for being an early adapter.

January 20 2008 at 2:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mayooo

apples updates for the ipod touch are usually free
but they charged 20 bucks bc this was a big update
and it was to catch up with the iphone apps
the iphone users didnt have 2 pay for the update bc they already had the mail,mapps,weather, notepad and such

January 17 2008 at 8:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zews

Triangulating, definitely cute, usefulness questionable
Webclips, very useful
Customizable homescreen and dock, somewhat useful
Chapter navigation, not even cute, usefulness questionable
Multiple SMS sending, not very useful to me at all.

Now 5 improvements that would have been very useful, and which Apple
does not seem to be in a hurry to fix, are:

Cut and Paste
Cut and Paste
Cut and Paste
A calendar that syncs properly with iCal
A Notes upgrade, that would make it somewhat useful.

January 16 2008 at 1:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zews

Triangulating, definitely cute, usefulness questionable
Webclips, very useful
Customizable homescreen and dock, somewhat useful
Chapter navigation, not even cute, usefulness questionable
Multiple SMS sending, not very useful to me at all.

Now 5 improvements that would have been very useful, and which Apple does not seem to be in a hurry to fix, are:

Cut and Paste
Cut and Paste
Cut and Paste
A calendar that syncs properly with iCal
A Notes upgrade, that would make it somewhat useful.

January 16 2008 at 1:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam

can someone tell me why the hell the itunes icon can't be placed on the right hand side of the screen anymore? like wtf.

January 15 2008 at 11:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Adrian vG

Please, Apple, love this update, but I'd want the Contacts app on the iPhone!

January 15 2008 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mark

Do we know if Springboard will now revert to the 'main' page of icons when you press the Home button, or is it still stuck in that _asinine_ WinMo-esque mode of staying on the second page till to flick it back?
I hated that in 1.1.1, and hated how SummerBoard didn't retain vertical snap-back-to-main-view scrolling on 1.1.1 and later.

January 15 2008 at 5:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

how about copy and paste text in iphone........;-(

January 15 2008 at 4:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply