iPhone 3.0 feature predictions: TUAW report card

Will this be an update or a new phone?????

How come no one is making any noise about VOPIP?

It was mentioned so casualy, it would imply that ATT is not going to have a problem with it?

So now that subscriptions are approved, will we see an iPhone version of Rhapsody? That would be interesting. I'm using Slacker and it rocks! $3/month for premium radio. That's $10/month cheaper than XM and you can skip songs you don't like. Plus, in the cornfields of Iowa where 3G doesn't exist, Slacker works just fine on the slower EDGE connection or WI-FI.

And by the way, what's really the point of copy and paste? I've been using my iPhone for over a year and I've wanted to use it maybe once. You don't use an iPhone to create long documents so there is little value to adding copy and paste. And MMS? Not really that useful either. When my friends make fun of the "Jesus" phone for not being able to do it, I just ask them how much it costs to send a picture. I can email photos for free and it works just fine.

I wish they had improved application organization, like using a tabbed interface. It isn't that big of a deal, but it would be nice to have headers that say something like "games, business, utilities, links", etc. so you could go to the applications faster.

I think you guys missed ONE BIG THING:

Apple was demonstrating the new iPhone SDK 3.0!

They weren't there to demonstrate any new functionality in the menu interface, or changes in the way apps are organized... changes here are sure to come...

My opinion is that Apple will save this for a later release... why show everything now when a new iPhone is around the corner?

Multitasking may well be on the slate for the new phones, as well... assuming they have a faster, or more-multitask-friendly CPU or GPU.

RE: Push w/ Fart apps.

I think fart apps will output a little more than just noise when using push technology. If you have any of those apps then you should be worried now.

Those that have forcibly pushed farts out know what I'm talking about.

"we'll have to wait and see about greater call reliability"

Dropped calls has to do with a rubbish cell network not the phone hardware or software.
Over here in the UK we never ever have dropped calls from any phone.

How come no one cares about the lack of task-sync. For me, that's more important than Notes-sync. Isn't task-sync fundamental to the use of a PDA?

I missed anything that brings the iPhone up to speed with what Palm is planning with the Pre. I was expecting something revolutionary. I guess Palm really did one-up Apple. On the desktop, Apple's been very successful with a one-version-per-year release cycle with OS X because it's only commercial competition is a slow, bloated Microsoft. With several major players in the mobile space now with their sites set on taking market share from the iPhone, they are going to have to do a lot to keep up once / if people start comparing features.

I don't know if it would be worth being announced but it would be create if Apple released mobile versions of Iwork and ILife...I can understand not automatically including them but it be great if for maybe 20 bucks you could buy a word processor or mobile iweb or something. I'm a Genuis!

Now I am wondering how many of the jailbroken apps will be possible and maybe sold through the appstore? If apple would just allow dock and poof I would be set!