What’s New in the iPhone 3.1 Beta

Leander Kahney ()

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The iPhone 3.1 beta has been released to developers, and includes some cool features, including Voice Control over Bluetooth.

Baseband has been updated to 5.08.o1, so don’t install the beta if your iPhone has been unlocked with the ultrasnow hack — it will permantly lock it.

The beta also allows edited videos to be saved as a copy, preserving the original. And MMS is on by default, but doesn’t work for AT&T subscribers.

The full list, via the QuickPwn website, after the jump.

According to the QuickPwn website, here’s what’s been discovered in the iPhone OS 3.1 beta so far:

  • The baseband has been updated to 5.08.01 – ultrasn0w users should not use the iPhone OS 3.1 beta, otherwise their iPhones could be permanently locked!
  • iPhone 3GS – When you’re trimming your videos you now have the option of saving the original video by tapping the “Save as copy” button.
  • Voice Control is finally working over bluetooth now!
  • When you move your icons around the iPhone vibrates
  • MMS is enabled by default but does not work for AT&T users
  • The AT&T profile is updated to 4.2
  • Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz
  • There’s now a VideoEditorController API – Allows third party apps to call up video editing UI
  • Video picker API

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  • ItsGene

    Some of these things — like a video picker API and Voice Control over Bluetooth — sound like obvious features that should have been in 3.0… but were left out because they would have tipped Apple’s hand when 3.0 was in beta.

  • Max

    Tethering still works!

  • Maximum Ride

    Take note, QuickPwn dot com is a spam site. Never get spoonfulls of info there. Some of it might not actually be true. Instead get your info from tPb, the iphone blog or the dev team blog. QuickPwn dot com only wants the publicity. Their downloads have trojans.

  • firesign

    at&t profile update and mms on by default? betting at&t enables mms when this rolls out. about damn time too.

  • http://www.kreativni.hr Davor Pasaric

    In 3.1 they should fix just one thing – wi-fi problems.

    At first I thought that I am just very unlucky that my brand new iPhone replacement (I had mic problems with the first one) is having wi-fi problems, but then I found out at Apple forum that this problem is much wider…

    http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2044754&start=0&tstart=0

  • josh

    So dose this mean after the update that the iphone will be MMS ready or not. i just dont understand how big name brand APPLE going to come out with a phone and not have MMS already on it. your kidding me right. get with the program guys and girls. other then that i have had no problems with it so far.