I’m back from a long lunch with St. Patrick (or just some old guy in green clothes, I’m not sure which) and just catching up on the Apple iPhone 3.0 Software event. By now, you’ve probably seen that cut, copy and paste made the cut. So did MMS support (for 3G models), stereo Bluetooth, universal search in the form of Spotlight, and Push notifications, which apparently got pushed into this year. Actually there’s plenty more good stuff in there, as you can see from Engadget’s live blog, which was my first stop. No news on new hardware, which semi-surprises me: I figured that some new features might work better on beefier hardware and therefore, we’d hear about a new handset for summer availability. No such luck.
After all is said and done, my first impression rates all this as “satisfactory” from where I stand, and now I’m leaning more towards a Palm Pre when my iPhone contract is up in July. I really wanted to see video recording as well as background applications, but perhaps Apple’s push notifications are a more optimal solution in that area. Time will tell. What do you think?
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