I love my iPhone. I have used a large assortment of cell phones over the years, and in my opinion, it is the best phone ever made. Even with its missing features, it is the most robust and easy to use phone in the world. With the announcement of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 software, it has just widened its lead.
Today Apple listed many of the new features coming to the iPhone. Chief amongst them are copy, cut, paste, and MMS messaging. Yes, you can argue that other phones have had these features for years, but now that the iPhone has them, why would you want to use those phones? They are also opening up the API so that developers can create turn-by-turn direction applications, so expect to see some cool GPS navigation software to pop up soon. I also like the fact that they are introducing the landscape keyboard to other applications, mainly the Mail application that needed it badly. SMS gets it, too.
There is only one glaring omission to the iPhone feature set and that is that it still won’t be able to play Flash media. I don’t understand their reasoning for it because every iPhone user in the world would love to have that ability.
There’s too many new features to mention here, so head over to Apple’s preview site and see for yourself.