Well, Apple’s warnings about bricking modded and unlocked iPhones is true, true, true. Modded iPhones are just being reduced to their “factory fresh” state while many unlocked iPhones are being completely bricked. For those of you who didn’t void your warranty and successfully updated your iPhone there are some good features that have been added.
- First of all, the WiFi iTunes store is up and running with a pretty purple button on the home screen.
- Double clicking the home button will take you to phone favorites or music controls like the iPod Touch.
- Adjustable voice mail alert volume as well as increased receiver speakerphone volume.
- International keyboard options.
- Blackberry style inserting of periods by double tapping the space bar.
- Increased security. Seriously, the new firmware is locked up tighter than Fort Knox.
There are some other features, of course, Apple loves to add little unannounced treats in their updates. For those of you with unlocked iPhones you best wait on adding this next update until the geeks have worked a way around it, or at least a way to not destroy your iPhone in the process. The guys and gals over at the iPhone Dev Wiki are busy decrypting 1.1.1 as we speak…er, as I write…as you read? God, that phrase doesn’t really work on blogs.
Anyway, there are tons of articles about the update floating around the internet today. Some of the better ones are on The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Engadget, CrunchGear, and Techmeme.