Live coverage of Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 event is available from the from the following sites:
Electronista/MacNN
Engadget
Macworld
Gizmodo
Here are some of the highlights:
- End User: Free update for iPhone coming this summer, 1st gen will have some limitations due to hardware (no MMS, A2DP). iPod touch upgrade $9.95
- Developers: iPhone OS 3.0 beta available to all today (???)
- Stereo audio over BlueTooth (A2DP)
- Spotlight system wide search
- Voice Memos.app, enhanced Calendar.app, Stocks.app
- New built-in apps and upgrades
- MMS
- Forward, delete SMS
- Multiple photo selection (you know, for the email...)
- Landscape mode support for key apps: Mail, SMS, etc...
- Cut/Copy/Paste within and across apps
- 100 new features for end user...
- Demos from Oracle, ESPN, Smule, ngmoco
- Streaming media support over HTTP, bandwidth optimized
- Access media library from apps
- Email directly from app, access to Proximity sensor (not just for Google anymore),
- Still NO to background apps
- Push notification finally ready
- Turn-by-turn GPS navigation now possible but developers must supply own maps, can't use Google maps
- Maps API allows devs easy access to Google maps
- Hardware interface, developers can make apps that talk to hardware over dock connector, BlueTooth
- Peer-to-peer APIs make it easier for developers to build multi-user apps, Bonjour based
- In-app sales - buy more levels, upgrades from inside an application (paid apps only)
- iPhone OS 3.0 to include 1000 new APIs
