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iPhone OS 3.0 Gallery and Initial Impressions

Posted on March 18th, 2009 in Tech Crunch

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picture-44 Just announced this morning, iPhone OS 3.0 is the talk of the town. Though Apple’s SDK distribution servers had a rough time handling the initial rush this morning, things have since stabilized and developers are starting to flash their handsets to the first beta copies of the new software. In turn, the first screenshots and early impressions have started to trickle in to our inbox.

Update: We’ve also found a few new features lurking around in the Podcast player.

What we’ve heard so far:

There’s a reason us common folk won’t see it hit our handsets till Summer. It’s slow, and it’s buggy – but remember, it’s beta.
There’s a “Find my iPhone” option under MobileMe – We don’t recall ever seeing this before, and it wasn’t mentioned by Apple today.
Voice Recorder continues to record even if you close the application. We couldn’t get a screenshot of it for some reason, but it looks just like when you close the phone app while you’re on a call, with a small bar running along the top of the screen. No sign yet if it will allow you to record calls, as the app crashes if you try.
Copy and paste works. Shaking the iPhone brings up the undo button, and it does this fancy little animation on its way in as if it had momentum from the shake. It’s a small touch, but we like it.

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