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At Apple's biannual MacWorld Expo in San Francisco last month, big cheese Steve Jobs rattled off a number of new innovations, such the MacBook Air and a deal to allow movie rentals directly onto desktop, iPod or iPhone. The most important announcement to us, however, is a cool iPhone update, the first significant one in a few months. In this article, we describe and explain how to use some of the iPhone's new features.
iPhone’s Faux GPS System The iPhone uses a technique called triangulation, which essentially measures your distance from different cell towers rather than GPS satellites to determine your approximate location.
Go to the Maps section and press the Directions button. In the "From:" section, instead of typing in your current address, press the little Bookmark icon to the right (the one that looks like an open book). At the top of your bookmarks will be "Current Location". Click on it to return to the map screen, then type in the desired location in the "To:" area as you normally would do. Press the Route button and it will give you directions. 
The system can also track your progress as you get closer to the destination. Notice the new target icon in the lower-left hand corner? Press the icon and, after a brief loading, the iPhone will create a large purple circle overlay around your current location. It will move as you move. That said, the iPhone won't recalculate directions unless you redo the "Current Location" bookmark described in the previous paragraph.
We tested "Current Location" in the most unruly of places - downtown Los Angeles - and it was accurate within a few city blocks. It was much more precise in less congested areas, as in down to the current building location.
The iPhones new faux-GPS system is definitely useful.
Home Screen Management
press and hold one of the icons with your finger. All the icons will begin to wiggle. Now you can hold any icon and use your finger to place it in another place on the screen. The iPhone will automatically swap or move the icons as you manipulate it.
Furthermore, you'll now notice two dots at the bottom of the menu screen, just above the final row icons (which, by the way, can also be individually moved around).
Press the Home key, the indented button with the square at the bottom of your iPhone, to get out of movable icon mode.
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Damon will cover more new iPhone features next month. About the Author |
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