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3.0 update brings Street View, 'Find' functionality to iPod touch
iPod touch users are finally getting a taste of what iPhone users have had since iPhone OS 2.2: Google Street View. iPhone 3.0 Software Update for iPod touch includes an update to the Maps application that enables Google Street View, and it works just like it does on the iPhone.
Additionally, the "Find my iPhone" feature is implemented as "Find my iPod touch" for iPod touch users. It works exactly like Megan described yesterday, but is perhaps less accurate than using the iPhone's built-in GPS. It'll at least get you close, so long as it's connected to a Wi-Fi network. If it is, you can send messages to the iPod touch and wipe its memory.
If you do send a message to an iPod touch that's turned off or not connected to a Wi-Fi network, the message is queued until it's on and connected.
Both features appear to work on both first- and second-generation iPod touch devices. As Megan mentioned, since the first-generation iPod touch lacks a speaker, it won't make the "ping" noise associated with Find my iPhone unless you have speakers plugged in. Perhaps less useful for finding it in the house, but still helpful if you left it on a table at the park.
Have you found an undocumented feature that the iPhone 3.0 Software Update for iPod touch provides? Let us know by tipping us, or leaving a comment.
Thanks, Harold, Ben, Rocky, and everyone who sent this in!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Loup_garou said 2:20PM on 6-18-2009
I guess it's nice..IF..I could download the update it just gaves me "the item you've requested is not currently available in the Colombian iTunes Store" it's not fair...it's already 1:18 pm of the 18th and both the update on my ipod touch page and the icon on the store are there...they just display that message
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Nathan said 4:09PM on 6-18-2009
http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/
macuser said 2:26PM on 6-18-2009
Your welcome.
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iceman said 2:31PM on 6-18-2009
there's a new way to terminate apps - holding the screenlock button until the read slider appears and then release the screenlock button and press and hold the home button until the app quits (before it was just holding the home button for about 6 secs)
also there is a built in search in mail like it is in adressbook, also the stopwatch has a new small timer to get better results.
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Tony Ward said 2:35PM on 6-18-2009
Tried Find my iPod touch last night after the upgrade. I guess this is a commentary on WiFi in Omaha.... it misjudged my location by about 50 blocks.
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Steve in Denmark said 9:30AM on 6-19-2009
Can't find my iPod at all, says I must have the Wi Fi switched off. I'm connected to my home Wi Fi and I'm sat looking at the bloody thing switched on right now!
Information Desk said 2:40PM on 6-18-2009
Here is a site that has an abundance of links to reviews and articles explaining the release of 3G S to impressions of the 3.0 update on the original iPhone. http://pfx.me/vC
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Jon said 2:43PM on 6-18-2009
I have to buy it again, wtf? I just bought 2.x about 7 weeks ago. Oh well, not much extra goodness for a gen 1 touch. My daughter probably wont know...
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Tony Ward said 2:43PM on 6-18-2009
BTW.... I briefly did flips of joy when all my Mail notes suddenly appeared on my iPod (I use notes in Mail more than I care to admit), but joy turned to grief when I realized I couldn't sync iPod-created notes back to Mail. Am I doing something wrong, or is that just the way it is?
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Tony Ward said 2:48PM on 6-18-2009
Never mind. I quit and restarted Mail and there they were. Call me Dr. Fullbright.
Richard said 3:05PM on 6-18-2009
iPod touch update in Canada
Can’t get the ipod touch 3.0 update
“ipod software update server could not be found”
Went thru the apple store and seemed to go fine until last page where download button was not there…the page told me if it didnt show to go back to my ipod page and hit the update button again….got the same error…the error message popped immediately as if it didnt even look for the server….itunes store works fine…can download songs.
called apple support canada…they said it was busy plus two of the servers in canada are down…anyone else in this exact situation?….my fingers are getting cramped from hitting that update button so often…been going on since yesterday afternoon…
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doug said 3:14PM on 6-18-2009
I noticed in the Clock application's Stopwatch that there is now a "total" time in addition to the individual lap/splits.
Also, more custom field support in Contacts (particularly IM, although not Twitter)
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Mike said 3:20PM on 6-18-2009
This is for touch and iPhones
Safari has a change in the bookmarks
if u have enough bookmarks to scroll down, and let's say you choose the last bookmark. If you let the site load, and browse around, once you go back into bookmarks, you are brought to the top of your list, or top of the list in whatever bookmark folder you were in.
Kind of annoying for me as I like the memory of where I was in my list of bookmarks.
Illwait for someone to come out with a toggle for that in the jailbreak scene.
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m said 3:22PM on 6-18-2009
still no "shuffle albums" available... driving me nuts
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Adam Schoales said 3:40PM on 6-18-2009
One of the features I really like is that if you play a song, lock the iPod and then hit the button to show the slide to unlock screen, the title of the track is now much smaller, and should allow even long song titles to show in their entirety. No more of this
"Fell in Love with a Gi.." nonesense.
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sodapop said 3:50PM on 6-18-2009
Does anyone know a list of features of 3.0 for 1st gen iPhones?
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Qlotta said 4:03PM on 6-18-2009
After updating, around 20 podcasts from Jan. that I deleted reappeared. Not a new feature, but I'm sure deleting them again cleared up some space on my first gen.
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Jens said 4:05PM on 6-18-2009
I have the new OS 3.0 on my iPod Touch 2G, but i cant find anything that looks like Street View!? Has anyone an idea what to do or where i have to search??
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Will said 4:08PM on 6-18-2009
I was just looking for it om my 1st gen iphone. I don't see street view as an option either
Swimatm said 5:28PM on 6-18-2009
When you search for an address that is in an area with street view, a little orange dot with a person in it shows to the left of the placemarks' description. That takes you into street view.