Another big shift: Shooting and editing videos and uploading them to YouTube is now as easy on an iPhone as on a Flip camera. The iPhone now threatens both standalone personal navigation devices and wireless carriers' subscription navigation services.
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One of those apps, from TomTom, is actually a whole driving kit that includes a window mount.
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(#include msid=2459375,type=9 #) For example, Apple now allows users to download apps that provide turn-by-turn directions while you drive, and the iPhone's big screen makes it an excellent navigation device. And app publishers can sell add-ons such as extra game levels, or content such as e-books, from within their programs and bill the purchases through the App Store. A technology called push notification can be used to wake a sleeping app, such as an instant-messaging program. The on-screen keyboard works well in both vertical and horizontal orientations. You can now cut and paste text in any application. Apple moved to match and, in many cases, leapfrog the competition.
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Competitors have at least as much to fear from the new software, which is free for the original iPhone and i?Phone?3G and a $10 upgrade for the iPod Touch (a Wi-Fi equipped iPod you can think of as a phoneless iPhone). At the same time, the existing 8GB iPhone?3G remains in the lineup at a market-threatening $99. And you can not only voice-dial but also use speech to control many iPhone functions. Battery life is significantly improved when you are on a Wi-Fi network, but not when you are on 3G. For this, you pay either $199 or $299 with a two-year AT&T contract. A faster processor boosts performance, and storage is doubled, to 16? or 32 gigabytes. For example, the mediocre camera has been replaced with a 3-megapixel autofocus unit capable of quality video recording.
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The iPhone 3G S hardware is a relatively modest update of the current phone, but the changes address the few areas where Apple lagged rivals.
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The latest moves seem designed to wreak havoc on the competition. With the release of the iPhone 3G S and, at least as important, a new version of the basic software for all iPhones, the upheaval will intensify and spread to new markets. From the day it launched two years ago, Apple's iPhone has been a tornado of disruption ripping through the wireless phone market.