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iPhone 3.0 stuff

April 21st, 2009

The new iPhone 3.0 is set to come out in June but if you have a developer account and give Apple a lot of money they will let you download the 3.0 beta to test your apps against for the 3. software. Rather than say all the boring stuff here are some features they added I like thus far with it.

The ability to Cut/Copy/Paste is finally out. It’s slightly annoying to deal with but it works.

If you have a MobileMe account there is a “Find my iPhone” function which should be fun when you’ve had a few too many at the bar.

MMS is finally a reality. It’s blocked in the 3.0 beta but its very easy to send pictures and memos.

Landscape keyboard. This is one of the reasons why I had previously jailbroken my phone. Makes typing much easier.

Spotlight. I guess I should have searched for something when taking this screenshot but when I searched it went through all my iPhone to look.

http://ryanallen.com ryan

MMS and blutooth stereo music won’t work on the 1st gen iphones

Still no background apps either, they are saying push will be fine instead.
http://www.techventure.com/blog Jamie Varon – techVenture

Now I want an iPhone 3.0 very badly. Overall though, what’s your impression of the added features?
http://jessefrye.com Jesse

I’m not really concerned about background app support. Every smartphone I’ve had has memory leaks due to that! What would you want background app support for anyways? Skype? Fring?
http://jessefrye.com Jesse

I think they should have been iphone 1.0 features actually! I think they add some functionality though. The tethering would be awesome. The most important feature IMO would be to have a better 3G chip so we could pull some real internet speed though!