As if it wasn’t enough to inform the sickest mini MP3 player/Video camera/Radio ever and a gorgeous newborn version of iTunes, Steve Jobs had to intercommunicate in an iPhone OS update for good measure. For those of you who missed our springy feed, here’s an overview of what the iPhone OS 3.1 update contained:

Genius Recommendations for Apps Mad props to our possess MG Siegler for calling this a whatever weeks ago. Genius recommendations become straightforward to your iPhone finished the in-phone App Store. Now, alongside the “What’s New” and “What’s Hot” in the Featured country of the App Store is a “Genius” section. Basically, it takes apps you’ve already got and gives you recommendations of another apps that you might poverty to get. Fortunately, it doesn’t simply wage you with what apps “Customers of [X app you own] also downloaded.” That would be uber lame since that feature already exists in the iTunes Store.

Instead, it actually provides you recommendations that are dissimilar from the app you impact but related. For example, I’ve got WordPress on my iPhone. Instead of gift me admittance to another blogging apps, it recommends kindred utility apps such as BeejiveIM 3.0 and Twitterrific Premium. On my first pass, this looked enthusiastic and I got whatever solid recommendations. Upon further inspection, though, a whatever of the recommendations seemed a taste from left field. Based on my owning Button (disclaimer: made by our possess Greg Kumparak), it advisable Service Bell, which, frankly, is not at every attendant to Button in any way except that they are both liberated apps.

Only time module tell whether the Genius feature for apps actually entireness or not, but to be honest, who cares? Better that it exists than it doesn’t. How added module you analyse finished the 70,000 apps and counting?

Genius Mixes iTunes Genius today comes with a newborn feature: it automatically makes 12 playlists for you. In the past, Genius would attain playlists only if you provided it with a distribution song. Then, iTunes’s Genius feature would go and garner another songs in your library kindred to that distribution strain and create a listing for you. This worked pretty well for some, but today they’ve beefed it up a bit. You no individual impact to wage a distribution song. All you impact to do is blast up iTunes and impact the Genius Mixes fix on the left taskbar. Bam. You’ve got genre-based mixes (or playlists) that you crapper then pull onto your iPhone/iPod to enjoy on-the-go.

Wirelessly Downloadable Ringtones Let’s face it: the iPhone ringtone is classic, but today that everyone has one, you can’t always know if its your sound sound or your co-worker’s. Problem solved, says Jobs. You’ve today got the knowledge to wirelessly download ringtones to your phone. A daylong time coming, I say, but a recognize addition to the iPhone features itemize nonetheless. I went ahead and proven it out – the impact was evenhandedly simple, though the downloading took a taste individual than expected (I was on wi-fi). As presently as you download the newborn ringtone, your iPhone prompts you with the option to attain it your default ringtone or just the ringtone of a specific contact. Obviously, you crapper go into Settings on your sound and change your ringtone. Or you crapper go into Contacts and distribute specific ringtones for your selection friends, your raspberry or whoever added you’ve got in your address book.

Improved App Organization straightforward from iTunes We’ve already awninged this, so I’ll spare you the details. Basically, you crapper today manage every of your iPhone App pages directly finished iTunes. Juggle them around. Delete the bad ones. Add older ones. Whatever your little hunch desires.

Of course, there are a aggregation more improvements than the ones mentioned above. Here’s the flooded itemize from Apple:

iPhone OS 3.1 also includes these features and updates:

* Improved syncing for music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and photos * iTunes U noesis organization * Redeem iTunes Gift Cards, codes, and certificates in the App Store * Display available iTunes statement credits in the App Store and iTunes Store * Save recording from Mail and MMS into Camera Roll * Option to “Save as newborn clip” when cut a recording on iPhone 3GS * Better iPhone 3G Wi-Fi action when Bluetooth is turned on * Remotely hair iPhone with a passcode via MobileMe * Use Voice Control on iPhone 3GS with Bluetooth headsets * Paste sound numbers into the keypad * Option to ingest Home fix to invoke on availableness features on iPhone 3GS * Warn when temporary fraudulent websites in Safari (anti-phishing) * Improved Exchange calendar syncing and invitation handling * Fixes supply that cause whatever app icons to display incorrectly

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