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iPhone 3.0

As most, almost all, of you must be knowing now, Apple had their previous special event for the iPhone 3.0 SDK Preview. Let’s go over it shall we?

Starting from the top, awesome statistics. The 17 million iPhones and 13 million iPod Touches sold make up for a total of 30 million touch devices out there. Think of the huge market potential the App Store has! Of course the devs know this, as is evident by the 800,000+ downloads of the SDK since March last year. And last, but not the least, is the 800 million downloads of the 25,000 apps in the App Store.

But let’s move on to the big stuff.

Copy and Paste!
As told by Kevin Rose at Diggnation, Copy and Paste made it to the iPhone 3.0 release. The clipboard works for all the apps which use CocoaText so moving between apps is not a problem. Simple double tap guestures, and a shake to undo-paste feature.

Search and Spotlight
iPhone 3.0 will feature a search field in Mail, Calendar and the iPod app, very much like the Contacts app. Mail will pull messages from the IMAP server if it can’t find them on the device.

Spotlight also made it to the party, and resides as a separate home screen on your iPhone. Just left to your first home screen, the spotlight feature will find information no matter where it is stored. Mails, contacts, links, maps, and even data that is saved by apps supporting the Spotlight API.

Landscape keyboarding
Mail, SMS and Notes finally become landscape aware. Why they weren’t from day one is beyond me. It’s good to have them anyway. This also means that at least 10% of the apps in the App Store are soon going to be obsolete because of this specific functionality.

MMS Messaging
Fixing their broken SMS app, Apple caves in and allows MMS support (images and audio) for their SMS app. Single message deleting also made it to the list. Note that MMS only works with the iPhone 3G, and not with your run of the mill first generation device.

Bluetooth Stereo support
Music lovers will finally have wireless music streaming to their ears. Along with this Apple has also opened up the Bluetooth API for third party developers to access it. Stereo support is not enabled for the first gen iPhone though.

A lot more
There’s a lot more where this came from. Safari gets Anti-Phishing feature, as well as the ability to remember your logins. Notes now sync over with iTunes. The calendar app will now support CalDAV servers, and will allow subscriptions of online calendars.

New apps
New applications that made it to the update are a voice memo application, and a File Transfer application for sending files between iPhones and Touches. The Stocks application also gets updated with headlines showing up at the bottom.

For Developers
From the development side, the most striking change is the In-App Purchasing feature. This allows an application to charge your iTunes account from within the app itself. The dev can use it sell level packs, magazine issues, or content. This only works for paid apps though.

Peer to Peer connectivity
The iPhone can now find other iPhones in the locality, and establish connections with it. You can then share files, and applications can interact with one another over this ad hoc network. Demoed was a pet app where you could take your virtual dog to play with someone else’s virtual dog. It’s silly, but think about the possibilities.

Turn by Turn directions
A feature much asked for (I personally don’t know why), the API allows apps to use GPS data for turn by turn directions. In addition to this, the Maps API is available for developers to integrate it into their own apps.

Push Notifications
Background services didn’t make the cut, and its future doesn’t look good. Push notifications however are promised with the 3.0 update, and hopefully they will work as advertised.

APIs opened up
Apple has opened up a lot more APIs now, including accessing a new email sheet in other apps, Rumbling, audio recording, and the ability to control external peripherals over the dock connector.

The iPhone 3.0 OS
All in all the iPhone 3.0 OS looks very exciting and I can’t wait to use it. It covers up almost all the gaps that people have been whining about, and pitches the iPhone even further from the competition.

The iPhone 3.0 OS is a free upgrade for existing iPhone users, and $10 for iPod Touch users. It’s still not released however (only the SDK is available to developers as a beta). It will be out in June/July, probably along with the next generation iPhone.

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