If you’ve been searching for an excuse to update your iPhone (or finally make the leap and purchase one of your very own for the first time), the announcement from Apple yesterday on the new features and goodies it will include might just push you over the edge. The focus appears to be cleaning up a lot of the nagging tiny things that a user would anticipate being easy from the begin.

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Systemwide search- now you can find what you’re looking for from within one search interface, instead of having to detemine what you’re searching for first.

Copy and paste for text, pics, and SMS- why you weren’t able to take a selection of text and move it around across applications before…is just crazy. Finally you can grab a text message and paste it into an email, or grab someone’s name and use it to name a properly name a pic. As just two scenarios where this is more than just a ‘nice to have’.

MMS – I’ve never been a massive user of multimedia messages, but now you can send and receive them on your iPhone.

Improved GPS -probably the biggest complaint I heard from all my iPhone loving friends, is that the GPS has been subpar from the begin. This sounds like a large improvement all around.

Micropayments – while I comprehend why this would be useful, I do appreciate that right now I purchase an app…and then it’s done. Well, now app developers have the option of requiring you to subscribe instead of paying one fee up front.

More from Gizmodo.

The middle of last year I uncovered the FuelFrog website which let’s you track your fuel mileage.

The MyMileMarker website serves the same function and let’s you track. MyMileMarker lets you collect all the information that’s important in tracking your mileage and travel information. They then provide you with some great reports of the information as well. You can also submit your fill-up information through their mobile site, or via twitter too.

This pocket size keyboard for developed by Cervantes Mobile for the users of the iPhone and a number of other smartphones.

Dubbed the Jorno Bluetooth, this keyboard can be easily folded and unfolded to transform your handset into a fully functional computer.

When folded, the device becomes rather compact and can be easily carried in a pocket or bag.

The Jorno features detachable cradle to hold a handheld device in either portrait or landscape orientation.

Expected to be available in 2011, the keyboard will cost $ 99, but if preordered you will pay $ 79.

[via Gizmowatch]

The Swiss company Logitech has recently presented its new keyboard that harnesses solar energy.

The company claims that its latest device is the world’s first and slimmest fully solar-powered keyboard. It is just 7 millimeters thick and 5 times more energy efficient than the keyboards previously manufactured by Logitech.

Dubbed the K750, the solar-powered keyboard can harness not only the energy from the sun but also from an indoor lamp.

The wireless device includes low-power integrated circuits, a power optimized wireless link and 2 solar panels used to refill the onboard battery.

In addition, Logitech decide to develop a free desktop application for Windows that is able to provide accurate information about the energy currently stored in the device and the current light levels.

The solar-powered keyboard will be available on the company official website starting December, having a price tag of 79 Euros.

[via Pocket-lint]