iPhone OS 3.0 [Review]

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iphone-3-new-1 I installed the newest version of the iPhone OS (operating system) a couple of days ago and I’ve been very happy with it.  There are a few topics that make this upgrade worthwhile and I’ll talk a little bit about each one.  These are in no particular order.

  • Universal Search – The iPhone now has Spotlight search which allows you to quickly find music, movies, contacts, calendar events, applications, emails and more. You can access the search by swiping to the left on the home screen or hitting the home button while on the home screen. Very useful.

  • cut-copy-landscape-20090608 Horizontal Typing – They have finally enabled you to use the wide keyboard with the iPhone in the Mail, Messages and Notes applications. This should have been in the very first iteration of the iPhone but as they say, better late than never.
  • Copy & Paste – Another feature that should have been available at launch. I’ve already used this feature a lot and I can’t believe it didn’t have it before.
  • Push Notifications – I personally haven’t been able to test this feature but I’ve seen video of it in action. As soon as I can get a chat application that supports both Push Notifications and gChat, you’ll find me online all the time.
  • CalendarCalDAV Support – This is kind of a nerdy feature but this will help me stay very organized.  I use Google Calendar for all of my scheduling (I have about 5 Google Calendars in there for different purposes) and the new iPhone software can subscribe to each of the calendars and keep them in sync with my iPhone’s calendar. They even use the same color scheme I have set up in my Google Calendar.
  • MMS & Tethering – Oh wait, AT&T can’t support these two new features yet. You suck AT&T.

*Note – Apple has not released the new software for everyone yet. I obtained my version via Bittorrent.

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