iPhones and iPod Touches get a much needed update – 3.0

Apple today, released version 3.0 of their iPhone and iPod touch Operating System. This highly anticipated release includes many updates and upgrades that make these devices even better.

The new features include:

- Cut, Copy and Paste

- Landscape View for Mail, Notes and Messages

- Landscape Keyboard for Mail, Notes, and Messages

- Support for Multimedia Messages (MMS) which will be available to  ATT customers later this summer. The date is still TBD.

- Find My Phone feature which locates a missing or stolen iPhone. This feature is integrated in MobileMe.

- Remote Wipe is now an option in MobileMe to protect your data in case the phone winds up lost or stolen.

- Turn by Turn GPS-based directions

- A new Voice Memo app has been added

- Spotlight search for contacts, emails, and media content stored on the iPhone

What does this mean for education?

As we all have either seen or heard about, the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch are phenomenal devices to extend learning on-the-go. In this age of technology, we need to embrace and utilize the tools which make teaching engaging and effective. With the latest tools available to developers, applications that run on these devices do more and make more things possible than ever conceived before. Innovative Knowledge is hard at work developing and testing the next-generation of it’s mobile learning suite and should be on the App Store by the start of the new school year.

Academic Fitness Daily Trainer is an application, set to be released on the new iPhone/iPod Touch 3.0 platform, that will provide students with review questions that tests their knowledge and ensures they are ready for tests, quizzes, and overall school success. The material is presented in an interesting and engaging way and has pictures that accompany each question in order to assist students.

Here is a sneak peek of the application: