Apple (AAPL) isn't scheduled to release the iPhone 3.0 until Wednesday, but like a lot of Apple watchers, I've been living with the Gold Master version for the past week. (It's available on the Web if you know where to look.)
The new firmware is a significant improvement over the old, but not in the ways I had expected. Cut & paste -- the feature I'd lobbied for most heavily -- can be a lifesaver, but it's not something I've used a lot so far. Ditto for landscape e-mail.
On the other hand, I find myself depending heavily on features I'd never thought much about -- like Safari's new password autofill.
Apple's list of the top 20 new features of the iPhone 3.0 -- starting with Cut, Copy & Paste and Landscape Keyboard -- are listed on its website.
These, however, are the features that have been getting the heaviest use around my house:
I have two complaints with Find My iPhone, however: 1) it's turned off by default, something a lot of users probably won't discover until they've lost their phones and it's too late to turn it on, and 2) for reasons I don't understand, it only displays the iPhone's location within a one-block radius. See below:
Between Wi-Fi triangulation and GPS, Mobile Me ought to be able to locate the device to within a few yards. Seems like an easy fix. I'll be watching for it when iPhone 3.0 goes live officially on Wednesday June 17. The new iPhone 3G S arrives two days later.
This is the spot for our live coverage of Apple's (AAPL) World Wide Developers Conference.
The keynote started at 1 p.m EDT (10 a.m. PDT). All times below are EDT unless otherwise indicated.
3:05 And that's a wrap.
There is a new iPhone, coming June 19, about a month earlier than expected. There is a $99 iPhone, available now, which is not good news for Palm (PALM). There are new MacBook Pros and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 8, 2009 11:50 AM ET
For those who couldn't make it to Cupertino, Calif., Tuesday, Apple (AAPL) has posted a Quicktime video of its iPhone OS 3.0 special event.
Click here or on the image at right to view it.
These recordings are always useful to pick up nuances and details -- including, in this case, a live duet on leaf trombones and a terrifying three-person shoot-out -- that don't make it into the live blogs and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 18, 2009 10:18 AM ET
Apple (AAPL) unveiled a slew of new features -- more than 100 in all -- in the third major revision of the iPhone's basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at the company's Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for -- in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights:
Cut, copy and paste across applications
So-called "push notification" MORE
Apple (AAPL) unveiled a slew of new features -- more than 100 in all -- in the third major revision of the iPhone's basic operating system. Among the enhancements demonstrated at a special media event at the company's Cupertino headquarters on Tuesday were many of the functions users had been clamoring for -- in some cases for nearly two years. Among the highlights:
Cut, copy and paste across applications
So-called "push notification" MORE
UPDATE: To see what will and won't be in the new iPhone OS when it's released this summer, you can read our summary here or follow our link to the Quicktime video here.
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The first thing to remember about Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 3.0 special event, announced last Thursday and scheduled for Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m PT), is that it has been billed as "an advance MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 17, 2009 7:12 AM ET
UPDATE: Did your wish come true? See our report on iPhone 3.0 special event here or follow our link to the video here.
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No sooner had Apple (AAPL) e-mailed invitations to an iPhone 3.0 "sneak peak" on March 17 than Apple watchers -- and iPhone owners -- began speculating about what that new operating system might do for them.
Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster expects "significant new features," including, perhaps, MORE
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