iPhone 3.0 Software Preview Review
New Features:
- Cut, Copy, & Paste
- MMS Support
- Landscape Keyboard in all key apps (Mail, SMS, Notes)
- Push Notifications
- E-Mail multiple photos
Copy/Paste: Double tap to select, grab points at the end of selection to drag with button to Cut, Copy, Paste above. Double-tap to paste.
New Apps:- Voice memos (Record, trim, email, mms voice memos)
- CalDAV for shared calendars
- Stocks app: with headlines
- System-wide search (mail, calendar, ipod, notes)
- A2DP (stereo bluetooth) support
- Note sync
- Live streaming
- Shake to shuffle
- WiFi-auto login
- YouTube ratings
- Auto-fill
- More
- 1000 new APIs
- In-App purchases (Subscriptions, Additional Levels (ex. games), New Content (ex. ebooks))
- Peer-to-Peer connectivity over bluetooth (send business cards, playing backgammon)
- Support for hardware accessories via dock
- Maps is now a public API and can be used in any app
- Now use CoreLocation to make Turn-by-Turn direction GPS applications
- Meebo chat app with push notif
- EA The Sims with in-game items for $0.99 each
- In-game stereo plays music from your library
- LifeScan glucose monitor (diabetes) with Bluetooth
- ESPN video streaming
- Oracle demo
- Touch Pets
- 1st person shooter LiveFire
- Leaf Trombone (instrument)
iPhone 3.0 release in Summer
Q&A: Reveals Apple building in tethering support in iPhone 3.0, and working with carriers around the world. no announcement today though.
Q&A: Apparently 2nd gen iPod Touch does have bluetooth that can be enabled.
