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Full list of Voice Control commands for iPhone 3GS

Use Voice Control:

• Press and hold the Home button until the Voice Control screen appears and you hear a beep.
• Then use the commands described below to make calls or play songs.
• You can also press and hold the center button on the iPhone headset to bring up Voice Control.

Call someone in contacts:

• Say “call” or “dial,” then say the name of the person.
• If the person has more than one phone number, you can add “home” or “mobile,” for example. Dial a number: Say “call” or “dial,” then say the number.

Make a correction:

• Say “wrong,” “not that one,” “not that,” “no,” or “nope.”

Control music playback:

• Say “play,” or “play music.”
• To pause, say “pause,” or “pause music.”
• You can also say “next song” or “previous song.”

Play an album, artist, or playlist:

• Say “play,” then say “album,” “artist,” or “playlist” and the name.

Shuffle the current playlist:

• Say “shuffle.”

Find out more about the currently playing song:

• Say “what’s playing,” “what song is this,” “who sings this song,” or “who is this song by.”

Use Genius to play similar songs:

• Say “Genius,” “play more like this,” or “play more songs like this.”

Cancel Voice Control:

• Say “cancel.”

For best results:

• Speak into the iPhone microphone as if you were making a phone call.
• Or use the microphone in the included headset.
• Speak clearly and naturally.
• Say only iPhone commands and names, and numbers.
• Pause slightly in between.
• Use full names.

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• July 2, 2009 — New Features Found in iPhone OS 3.1

AT&T reveal just how valueable iPhone is to them

A leaked memo from AT&T to staff:

“iLaunch day 2009 was one for the record books, as AT&T customers scrambled to get their hands on the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet.

Here’s a look at some of the milestones we achieved:

• Best-ever sales day in our retail stores
• Second-largest traffic day in our retail stores
• Most transactions processed via our IT systems in a single day
• Most upgrade eligibility checks in a single day
• Largest order day in att.com history
• Largest features sales day in att.com history

On this year’s launch day, iPhone sales exceeded sales recorded on 2008’s iPhone launch day, Black Friday 2008 and Dec. 26, 2008 — all heavy-volume sales days. In fact, this year we surpassed 2008’s launch day sales at about noon Central time, and sustained our previous peak hour record, also set in 2008, for 11 straight hours.

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• July 3, 2009 — iPhone SMS Vunerability Found
• July 3, 2009 — iPhone 4.0 to include scheduled and event based modes
• July 3, 2009 — iPhone Karaoke anyone?
• July 3, 2009 — Rolando 2 – out now

iPhone SMS Vunerability Found

A major vulnerability in how the iPhone handles SMS has been found by security researcher Charlie Miller. During a presentation at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Miller announced the vunerability and warned of its capabilities.

“The SMS vulnerability allows an attacker to run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator’s network. The malicious code could include commands to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone’s microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet.”

According to HotHardware, Miller has made an arrangement with Apple giving them until the Black Hat USA expo in Las Vegas to fix the issue. Apple says they will have a fix ready “later this month.”

Related iPhone News

• July 3, 2009 — Full list of Voice Control commands for iPhone 3GS
• July 3, 2009 — iPhone 4.0 to include scheduled and event based modes
• July 3, 2009 — Rolando 2 – out now
• July 2, 2009 — Flight Control goes 2 player over Bluetooth
• July 2, 2009 — New Features Found in iPhone OS 3.1

iPhone 4.0 to include scheduled and event based modes

Imagine being able to have your iPhone flip from Ringer to Silent the minute the GPS notices you are at work. Well along with a slew of other patents today, Apple have patented this sort of technology. This is particularly handy, if the iPhone knows you are running, and so diverts all your calls to voicemail, until you slow to a walking pace. We’re not sure when this will surface but it will be very nice to have your iPhone react to your surroundings like that. Stay tuned.

Related iPhone News

• July 3, 2009 — Full list of Voice Control commands for iPhone 3GS
• July 3, 2009 — iPhone SMS Vunerability Found
• July 3, 2009 — Rolando 2 – out now
• July 2, 2009 — Flight Control goes 2 player over Bluetooth
• July 2, 2009 — New Features Found in iPhone OS 3.1

iPhone Karaoke anyone?

Apple has published a very interesting patent application in which they explore how to provide a Karaoke experience on the iPhone. Not only would users be able to sing along with their favorite songs, but Apple wants to give real-time feedback to singers letting them know how they are doing.

Related iPhone News

• July 3, 2009 — Full list of Voice Control commands for iPhone 3GS
• July 3, 2009 — AT&T reveal just how valueable iPhone is to them
• July 3, 2009 — iPhone SMS Vunerability Found
• July 3, 2009 — iPhone 4.0 to include scheduled and event based modes
• July 3, 2009 — Rolando 2 – out now

Rolando 2 – out now

Rolando 2 improves upon the existing Rolando formula by adding a “2.5D” display system which provides a 3D-looking environment to travel across. Beyond just this aesthetic change, the game also introduces a number of new characters, skills, weapons/vehicles and puzzles throughout the game’s 46 levels. The game shares the same basic controls as the original game with tilt movements to roll the Rolandos and swipe controls to jump.

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How to: Save your favourite websites to the Springboard

Are you fed up with typing in your favourite websites in to the small Safari bar on your iPhone? There is a simple way to gain easy access to your favourite websites quickly, and here’s how.

1. Navigate to your favourite website
2. Touch the “+” icon at the bottom of the screen
3. Touch “Add to Home Screen”
4. Enter a name for your shortcut
5. Voilá… you now have created your own icon that will open Safari and your favourite site with just one click.

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Flight Control goes 2 player over Bluetooth

One of the most addictive games on iPhone is now two player, simply both have the app on your iPhone and you can play head to head and help land all those aircrafts in a ridiculously small airport. Just when you thought this game couldn’t get any more fun, it does.

Upgrade now to version 1.3 in the iTunes App Store

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Is the iPhone 3GS REALLY that much faster?

We tested the load times of the iPhone 3GS vs the iPhone 3G. Apple have been banging on about how much faster the iPhone 3GS is, but is it really worth the $1000 for the 7.2mbps 3G connection. The video certainly reveals that the iPhone 3GS now boasts download speeds that are close to broadband speeds. (Ironically, iPhone User Guide took longer to load on the Mac than the iPhone, but we’re blaming that on the lame internet in our office!)

iPhone 3GS vs iPhone 3G – Safari download speeds

iPhone 3G – 26 seconds

iPhone 3GS – 10 seconds

So in our test (we ran this test at least 3 times to make sure it wasn’t some weird anomaly with the mobile networks) we found the iPhone 3GS to be 2.5x faster when it comes downloading over the cellular network.

*Obviously we were running this test on two different networks, but in all our previous tests we’ve found both networks to run at almost exactly the same speed.

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• July 2, 2009 — Slide to Unlock undies…
• July 2, 2009 — Facebook 3.0 coming to iPhone, still no push
• July 1, 2009 — First Look: Sally’s Spa

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