Jono Muller

3.0 Update for iPhone/iPod Touch

I have bought the 3.0 firmware update for my iPod Touch and I’d thought I’d share a few thoughts about it:

• Spotlight. This is a very useful for searching through music, contacts and emails. I use it quite often.
• Cut, copy and paste. It’s a nice feature and I use it occasionally when I am copying things from Safari to Notes or something.
• The ability to buy TV shows and movies from the iTunes store. I love this because you don’t need to go to your computer and download from there - you can do it straight from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
• Shake to Shuffle. This is great - I loved it on the new iPod Nano Chromatic and I think it is great that Apple have included it in the update.
• Stereo Bluetooth. This means you can connect to your bluetooth headphones. The downside is that you can’t send files from one iPod touch to another. You also need a second-generation iPod touch for this feature.

Those are the main new features that I really use but there are lots more new features. These include: peer to peer gaming, landscape keyboard, parental controls, notes sync and safari improvements. The update is free for the iPhone but costs £5.99 for the iPod touch. If you want to download this update follow this link for the iPhone or this link for the iPod touch and follow the instructions.