The cat is out of the bag. Coming this March 17 is a special event by Apple. Rumors on the internet are now travelling faster than the speed of light – Apple would be announcing the features of iPhone OS 3.0 during this event.
What’s in store for us? Well, to begin with, there’s Cut & Paste, as revealed by Kevin Rose during SXSW Live Diggnation. Here’s a description of cut and paste, Apple style – double-tap to bring up a magnifying glass with two quotes, you drag quotes around text string to select, and then you can cut/copy and paste.
Check out the following video recording of the announcement at SXSW Live Diggnation. Pardon the strong language, though.
Besides that, expect to have the iPhone now on par with the Palm Pre, features wise. I foresee this to be the integrated social network contacts, unified messaging, notifications and multi-tasking features the the Pre touted. Let’s see how Apple does their version of these features.
No word on whether MMS will make the cut or not, but seriously, I personally use MMS just to post pictures to Facebook. The iPhone can do much better in terms of posting pictures to Facebook using the official client. Video recording doesn’t seem to be making it as well due to technical limitations – writing too often to the NAND flash memory would burn it out.
There you have it, version 3.0 of the iPhone OS seems to have only two notable new features. But again, these are just rumors. March 17 is just right around the corner. Heck, there’s no indication that the firmware will be released on the same day itself. We’d probably see this coming in a few months time? And, what do you think of Kevin Rose’s claims? Will he finally get it right this time?
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