Apple has finally made the iOS 4.1 update available to (select) iPhone owners, bringing a couple of enhanced features.
Game Center is the most exciting new addition, bringing the chance to compete against others across the world – or 'experience social gaming', as Apple puts it.
iTunes Ping – another social feature from the Apple-ites – is available too, allowing you to share the things you love with unsuspecting buddies who may or may not care.
On the hardware side, the camera's getting some more love already, with HDR photography being added with the iOS 4.1 update.
Enhance!
This means the phone takes multiple shots at once, helping you get the right 'light intensity' in photos.
The video zone has also been tinkered with, insofar as you can now upload HD video to MobileMe and YouTube directly from your iPhone 4.
Click and plug and accept and wait over on iTunes with your iPhone, and you'll be the proud owner of a +0.1 newer iPhone. Unless you downloaded iOS 4.02, in which case it will only be 0.08 better. Sorry.
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caimbeul
September 9th 2010
5. Yawn
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steve50
September 9th 2010
4. @ thebivel - all indications from other Iphone 3G users on the web is that the latest patch restores the iPhone 3 to it's normal speed of operation
Gareth is the title of your article a bit misleading. The release was available exactly when Apple said it would be. Finally is just superfluous rhetoric. Are you looking for a job with the Inquirer or the Register???
The state of the iPhone 4 is now as it should have been at launch. Makes you wonder if the irresponsible journalism touting it made Apple rush it out before someone copied it a la the iPad and the new tablets...
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dem2010
September 9th 2010
3. Tried to download this 4 times now. Each time it timed out half way through download and them had to start from scratch again. Could the service not recognise the data already downloaded and work from there?
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thebivel
September 9th 2010
2. But will 4.2 fix what 4.0 did to my iPhone3G?! I doubt it very much.....
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richmurrills
September 9th 2010
1. Ping is available under iOS 4.0.1 also.
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