Last night while playing with my iPhone, on which I recently installed OSv3.0 , i found some of its hidden features which Apple has not announced officially. So in case you haven't bumbled upon them already, do checkout these hidden features in iPhone OS 3.0.
- More Home Screens
Apple added the support of 11 home screens instead of the previous 9 home screens. So now you can add more fun to your iphon by adding 32 more iPhone app from your home screen.
- Unlimited number of Apps
Thanks to Spotlight for iPhone, Apple is, as always, giving its users the maximum out of thier iPhones. Now you can have the unlimited number of iPhone apps assuming that the required storage is available on your phone. So if you're an iPhone Freak (like me) and you want to install more apps then the home screen limit, you can access them using Spotlight.
- Call Interruption
Now, this hidden feature is something not very big, but it will lessen the minor annoyance for every iPhone user. So if somebody calls you while you're playing around with your iPhone app, after the phone calls end you will be taken back to your iPhone app you were using before the call interrupted you.
- More Extra Characters
Phone's virtual keyboard has also been updated with few more extra special characters while holding certain characters down similar to the ".com" button. In iPhone OS 3.0, when you hold down the "." you also get "...". The dash "-" also displays an em-dash "-" and quotations and apostrophes display "<<" and ">>" and can also be curved.
- Added Camera Button
A Camera button is also added to the Home button settings in new iPhone firmware 3.0. So if you're a photographer on the way, iPhone now gives you the power to shoot on the go. You can quickly launch the camera from iPhone home screen.
- Unresponsive iPhone Apps
You now have another option to force quit an unresponsive iPhone app. You can hold the sleep/wake button until the red slider appears, then press and hold down the home button to quit the iPhone app.
- Shake it baby
You can undo typing by shaking the iPhone. When you are in the Mail, Messaging, Safari or Notes applications, after you typed a word/several words, just shake the phone and a pop-up will appear, asking you whether you want to undo what you have just entered.
One thing which i really want to see in iPhone is background support for App processes. Right now we can run only one app, unlike Symbian or Java phones in which we can run multiple apps at a time
Please don’t forget to post your feedback. Or if you know any other iPhone OSv3.0 hidden feature which is not mentioned here