Download iPhone OS 3.1.2 Released

“About a month ago on September 9^th apple had release iPhone OS 3.1 now here is yet another update for iPhone OS 3.1. Apple today released iPhone OS 3.1.2, addressing several issues regarding waking from sleep, network service disruption, and crashing during video streaming.

Jailbreakers and unlockers must stay away from this update until there is any update from Dev Team. Those users who don’t care about jailbreak may use below direct download links for iPhone 3.1.2.

Flash Arriving by Year-End on Every Smartphone Except iPhones

Adobe has promised betas of a mobile-ready Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile and Palm Pre late this year, and early next year for Android, Symbian, and BlackBerry phones, as well as NVIDIA-powered netbooks. The only hold-out? The iPhone, of course.

Adobe describes Apple as "closed device" and continues to offer a fig leaf, but given Apple’s general stance on opening up new development platforms on their device, it seems a tad unlikely. As Gizmodo points out, though, that might become a selling feature for those annoyed by memory-hungry Flash apps and advertisements.

More notable than even the ability to watch YouTube and Hulu clips on your phone, though, is that Flash 10.1 will support graphic chip acceleration on systems with NVIDIA graphics cards, allowing full-screen viewing on netbooks whose processors might otherwise choke, and giving laptop and desktop users perhaps a bit more performance from low-quality clips. Adobe AIR, the cross-platform app engine that powers apps like TweetDeck, will also see improvements with the release of Flash 10.1.

Promises of multi-platform support "by the end of this year" might not be bank-able, but it’s reassuring to hear Adobe’s firm expectations on all but one platform. Tell us what you’d like Flash to do, or stay away from, on your own smartphone or netbook in the comments.

Flash 10.1: Full Flash for Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids [Gizmodo]

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The iPhone Is Not The End Of Innovation

There’s just something when we see a dominant technology out there that makes people assume that no one will ever out innovate it, and then fear that we’re stuck with the dominant player forever. Adam Theirer has a post discussing this concept in relation to a recent paper by Robert Hahn and Hal Singer, Why the iPhone Won’t Last Forever and What the Government Should Do to Promote its Successor, which highlights how dominant platforms often appear insurmountable, but often quickly are defeated from unexpected sources. Thus, worrying about things like exclusive arrangements or if the platform is too closed off may be a waste of time. Eventually, the market ends up taking care of it. The paper points out that previous technologies are often declared the "end of innovation" as well, such as the Motorola MicroTAC flip phone (I had one, ages ago), which Fortune described in 1989 by saying:

Portable phones won’t get a lot smaller than this one. After all, they have to reach from your ear to your mouth.

Take a look one of oldest mobile phone:

And no more innovation ever happened in mobile phones over the past twenty years, right?

 

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