Political Bloviation

Apple has released a beta version of firmware 3.1 to developers, which is includes the following enhancements:

* Options for MMS are back on AT&T, but not sending or receiving.

* Non-destructive video editing means trimming a clip no longer saves over the original video but gives you the option to “Save as copy…”

* Voice Control now works over Bluetooth

* iPhone vibrates when moving icons

* Updated AT&T profile to 4.2

* Updated modem firmware to 5.08.01

* Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz

* APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them

* You can now paste phone numbers into the phone app’s dialer. This wasn’t possible under 3.0

* While pasting phone numbers, a neat feature is that it will convert alphanumeric phone numbers into a real phone number (e.g. 1-800-FLOWERS becomes 1-800-356-9377)

* Calendar appointment popup notifications now display the “Location” field from the calendar entry

* Ability to save video attachments in emails to your camera roll

via Unofficial iPhone OS 3.1 change log : Boy Genius Report.

Cnet’s iPhone Atlas reports that the new firmware will drop on 7/17/09. Now if it will stop playing Lady Gaga every time I ask it to dial Mom, I’ll be happy. Let’s just say the voice recognition needs help.