{"id":3281,"date":"2009-03-17T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T21:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2020-10-01T20:18:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T03:18:37","slug":"iphone-30-whats-it-mean-for-nokia-and-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/3281\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 3.0 – What’s it mean for Nokia and Palm?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the iPhone OS 3.0 announcement today,  Apple reacted to its growing competition from S60 touch devices, Android and Palm Pre by announcing a massive upgrade. 3.0 will ship “this summer”  and a Beta is available today to all registered iPhone developers. <\/p>\n

What Apple has done is to fill in  most of the feature gaps in the iPhone spec.  This is important.  While the iPhone design language and user interface have been head and shoulders above the competition since day one, the lack of core features has turned off many potential buyers. For me it’s cut and paste which I’ve been using on mobile devices since the Palm V. There’s no way I’d ever buy a smartphone if I couldn’t copy and paste.  For others the lack of MMS, a voice recorder or BlueTooth stereo support was the show stopper.<\/p>\n

OS 3.0 has all of the above plus a lot more.  New user facing features  include:<\/p>\n