iPhone 3.0 Friday roundup

One thing that I haven't seen that I would be interested to know is, with the enabling of bluetooth on the ipod touch, will I be able to share my 3G connection from my mobile phone via bluetooth. My phone doesn't have wifi so I can't use something like Joikuspot, but I would love to be able to access the internet anywhere on my ipod touch using my 3g mobile and bluetooth. Will this be possible under os 3.0?

I have been using it since the 17th.... yes a little sluggish. But after reading some forums I realized it is best to NOT do a restore but install as a new phone.... I reloaded as a NEW phone and almost all my problems went away some apps crash but relatively stable this is my everyday phone my life...... AGAIN this is BETA I LOVE all the new features, yes way long overdue but guess what.... there are here now...apparently Apple is listening to us 1) soon video 2) ichat? the future is looking good

Guys, could we maybe have a little less fanboyism and a little more reporting/analysis?

Right now, the iPhone absolutely cleans Android's clock -- despite having fewer "features" -- because the hardware is better (that G1 keyboard is terrible),

Subjective and largely unjustified. Also, the hardware on the G1 is actually ENABLED, while the iPhone's is crippled and will remain partially crippled after the 3.0 update. The G1 is much faster and has more RAM. It also at least has the OPTION of using a hardware keyboard which the iPhone does not share.

the UI is more thought-out

Also subjective.

and the third-party software is better by leaps and bounds. (hat tip, Gruber)

The software library seems to me to be quite similar, if smaller on Android.

I'm very curious about the 1000 new APIs and 100 new features in iPhone 3.0 but I'm not a paid iphone developer so haven't got access to them. So, where could I go to find an annotated list of all 1000 new API hooks and all 100 new features. Something like what Apple did on announcing the Leopard had 300 new features.

why in my area have this iphone sell?

HEY, If you guys need on a DEV account to use iPhone OS 3.0 just send me an email. You will also be included in our up and coming app beta test!

Bobby@designgears.com

I used it for a day. IMO it's entirely useable if a little sluggish.
Ironically, I downgraded back to 2.2.1 mostly because I need copy and paste! Apple's version didn't work as well as the Clippy app for Jailbroken phones for what I needed. (not able to paste into Safari) No doubt it'll be improved in the final version. Spotlight was very nice but needs the option to search safari bookmarks and history.
They need a way to disable landscape auto-rotation. I find it annoying enough in iPod and Safari and now it happens everywhere!
Several apps stopped working for me.
Never tried the new MMS or new Bluetooth features.

I installed 3.0 last night to play around with it, but the damn thing is soooo buggy, that i rolled back to my lovely jailbroken 2.2.1 about an hour later.
3.0 is definitely NOT ready for an every day use.

Oh, and the current MMS implementation is a complete FAIL.

One thing no one has reviewed is the calendar....

Can i dial a phone number by clicking on it if it is embedded in a appointment? Giant headache dialing a con-call number with pin

Where is my pencil and paper? I have to write it down as no field in an appointment is clickable - only editable if i created it.

I hope this is fixed!