14 DAY TRIAL // Apple prepared a new firmware update for the iPhone, the 1.1.3 version, and will make it available in the near future. While the previous updates didn't bring important changes, to make users say "wow", the 1.1.3 firmware update will come to really change the iPhone and make a better handset out of it.
Some new features that should be available with the update are already known, and it's possible that other improvements, unknown yet, will also come with the 1.1.3 firmware. Probably the first new feature that will make users happy is the ability to drag and drop applications on the home screen. This ability makes it easy for any user to customize the iPhone and, considering the fact that the home screen will also support pagination, it's clear that Apple is more and more open towards third-party applications.
The 1.1.3 firmware update will also bring the ability to send an SMS message to multiple contacts. Furthermore, Google Maps will have the "My Location" feature, to pinpoint user's location using cell tower triangulation. Also, Google Maps will be able to display the Hybrid map view. And finally, the last known improvement to come with the new update, consists in the fact that web bookmarks can be added to the phone's home screen.
We can't know if any other improvements will be available, but we're waiting for official details from Apple, as well as for the 1.1.3 firmware's release date. Rumors say this will happen in the first week of 2008, so apparently it's not a long wait. Anyway, the update to 1.1.3 will not work on unlocked iPhones. Moreover, those who update to the new firmware version will lose all their third-party applications without the possibility to have them back, so they'll have to install new third-party applications, specially created for the 1.1.3 update.