Well, I’ve been using the new iPhone 3.0 software for almost 12 hours now. Here are some of my initial thoughts:
- Search: I think the way they implemented this by having it be to the left of the main screen is interesting. Although I found myself swiping into it accidentally often. I hope I get used to it being there. It’s is a great program launcher though. I have about 7 screens of apps, and it can be difficult to find certain ones. Now with the search and few letters into the spotlight search, and up it comes. It was also great finding things in email. I really like how they used icons next to the results, it makes it easy to identify what each result is.
- iPod Features: I wasn’t ready for the first time i opened my music library and it needed to update. I had to cruise down the road for a few miles before I was able to fire up my tunes. So you may want to open up your library right away just so it can update. I listen to alot of podcasts, and there are a few new settings. Now under to time bar there are 3 new buttons. One allows you to send a link to the podcast to a friend. Nice for those of us who create podcasts. Two allows you to jump the podcast back 30 seconds incase you missed something. And three allows you to change the speed of playback.
- Cut and Paste: This one is so big. I can’t believe it took so long to get this. The implementation works well, exactly how I would expect it. And it works in so many places. It was supper easy to move text from a web page to an email, or a web address into a note. I love it. This makes the whole device so much more useable.
- General Impressions: My iPhone 3G feels a little snappier. The transitions from screen to screen definitely seems smoother. Overall not huge impact on performance, but it just seems a little tighter.
Here’s some thoughts from one of my favorite Tech Pundits: 10 nifty things about iPhone OS 3.0.
How was your first day with it? What’s your favorite new feature?
First day was good, bad and then ugly. I’m one of the many out there who had 2.2.1 jailbroken, and I had a lot of apps on my iPhone that were cracked… yes, I know a moral issue… well, I updated to 3.0, and of course, lost all of my cracked apps.. which was fine, I had eventually planned on buying them all anyway.. the part of my day that was “bad and ugly” really had nothing to do with 3.0… I love it, I think its got some great features.. however, I do wish that 3g users had video capibilities (one of the reason i’m excited to jailbreak 3.0) so.. I cleared my iTunes of all the cracked apps.. ran across the street to purchase $50 worth of iTunes gift cards, so I could buy all my apps back.. and guess what I find out.. canadians cannot purchase apps from the app store with a gift card… so now i have 50 bucks worth of credit sitting in my iTunes store, and no use for it, because i’ve already got 3000+ songs, why would I buy more…
I wrote a post on my blog about the concern of the parent control and what that means for the app store and the potential apps that are going to start to appear: http://thoughtsaboutnothing.com
I do like the update though. I had no problems with it and like some of the new features myself.