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Apple is slugging along with their newest developer release of iPhone 3.1. Seems like Steve Jobs is running a much tighter ship than maestro Cook. Many of the major issues of 3.0 (which probably wouldn’t of been there in the first place if it were up to El Jobso) have been fixed. Here is a list of  improvements dredged up by developers.

Non-destructive video editing means trimming a clip no longer saves over the original video but gives you the option to “Save as copy…”

Options for MMS are back on AT&T, but not sending or receiving.

Voice Control now works over Bluetooth

iPhone vibrates when moving icons

Updated AT&T profile to 4.2

Updated modem firmware to 5.08.01

Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz.

APIs to allow third party apps to access videos and edit them.

More is sure to come soon. So stay tuned. On that note, what else do you think needs fixing?

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The big question floating around the Webnets today is that AT&T will charge $55 for an iPhone Internet tethering plan. What’s not clear is if this $55 will include the $30 iPhone data plan. If so, it’s not a bad deal. But if AT&T is trying to tack on an additional 55 bucks to customer’s already high bills, that just isn’t going to fly with most people. Either way, those of you who haven’t hacked your iPhone to support tethering will have to wait until the end of summer to find out.

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Oh man this is sweet. You see, this week, I got my hands on the GM copy of the iPhone 3.0 OS. I installed it, went “OK, cool”, went to revert and nearly bricked my iPhone. Somehow, two days later, it unbricked itself and went back to OS 3.0, which is what’s needed to rock this tethering hack. Here’s how it works (in short):

• Have a Mac, iPhone with 3.0 OS installed and a pre-release version of iTunes 8.2
• Install the iPhoneTether app
• Hack some config files
• Reap the benefits

While I’m desperate to try this out, I don’t feel like fucking up my iPhone 3G again. The poor thing’s been through too much trauma. Hit the link for 9to5Mac’s full instructions.

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