Apple iPhone firmware 1.1.3 hands-on

Enjoy the wiggling icons and the new links to webapps. We have to admit, the new Google Maps features are pretty sweet, what with all the hybrid mapping and location finding, though we guess that the other additions like rearranging icons might be more exciting had we not "done things" to our phones already. Honestly, we were really hoping for a peek at the SDK, but Steve gave us nothing. At least you can admire these tasty photos.

Apple iPhone firmware 1.1.3 hands-on

[KarlW Posted Jan 15th 2008 3:51PM]

Does this update enable disk mode? It would be about time. It's one gaping hole in the iPhone for me. I'm really regretting giving my old 30GB iPod away.

[KarlW Posted Jan 15th 2008 4:02PM]

It's been said that this update includes a baseband firmware upgrade. The baseband is the bit that controls the radios (EDGE, WiFi, probably Bluetooth as well). So has anyone noticed better signal reception with this update?

Reception is poor for me (in central london), so this is the part I'm really looking forward to. Possibly more than disk mode.

[Ghoti Posted Jan 15th 2008 4:56PM]

I wanna know where the games come from in the screen shot on the main page...

Me want!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 6:45PM]

Are the games purchased through iTunes? free download?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2008 10:39PM]

Anyone notice that SMS messaging now has some threading issues?

It seems like it gets confused between the last couple of sent and last couple of received messages... Anyone else notice this?

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2008 11:32PM]

Don't want to sound like a broken record here, but where the hell is cut, paste, and search on the iPhone update? For now, brilliant, crippled interface.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 7:14AM]

About the custom ringtones, 1.1.3 firmware does break custom ringtones unfortunately. For me, my ringtones were created and synced using iToner, and now they are still there but they can't be played... I didn't try to sync again using iToner, may be it could fix the problem

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 6:02AM]

Poor update overall.
The new webclips are nothing but a better bookmark.
It is still not possible to sent a vcard from your phone to anyone in your contact list via sms or email. A pretty fundamental and common option with all other phones.
Also no adding of more than 1 picture to an email. Annoying if you want to sent more than 1.

Give, the map update is sweet, but I expected more.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 16th 2008 8:50AM]

my iToner ringtones no longer work either. They're still listed, but no sound. Tried resynching with iToner, but nada. :^/