Apple iPhone 3.1

Apple announced the release of the iPhone 3.1 software update as predicted. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the update on stage at the Yerba Buena Center during the "Rock and Roll" event. The software includes a handful of new features and bug fixes. With over 75,000 apps in the App Store, it can be difficult to find new applications. Apple's extended its Genius media-recommendation algorithm to iPhone applications. It looks at the apps you already own and makes recommendations based on that information.

In addition iPhone 3.1 beefs up the iPhone's ringtone capability allowing you to download over 30,000 ringtones from major labels via Ringtones section in the iPhone's Settings once they have been downloaded.

It also include in the iPhone OS 3.1 update are a number of iTunes 9 related features such as support for Genius Mixes, automatically generated playlists of tracks based on your library; the ability to organize applications on your iPhone's Home screen in iTunes; new syncing oprions for music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, and photos and iTunes U content organization.
It has also the ability to redeem iTunes gift cards, codes and certificates in the App Store ( a feature that briefly appeared in iPhone 3.0 then later disappeared) as well as a wa to view available iTunes account credits in both App Store and iTunes Store.
It has new video features with the abilit to save videos from both Mail and MMS into the Camera Roll (U.S. users will have to wait for AT&T to roll out MMS functionality on Sept. 25 in order to use the latter. You can also save a copy of a trimmed vide clip, which avoids overrriding the original clip.
On the iPhone 3GS, Voice Control is now accessible via a Bluetooth headset and there's an option to use the 3GS's Home button to activate accessibility features.
There are a number of other enhancements and bug fixes in the release, including a patch for an issue that could cause application icons to display incorrectly.