I've had a few hours tonight to digest the latest iPhone OS upgrade from the fine people at Apple and have to say that it's almost turned my year old iPhone into a new machine. It's much more responsive to input and seems to be loading apps slightly faster. Like almost every other smartphone on the market it now supports copy/cut and paste and voice recognition (hello 2003). There's also a snazzy little search function that seems to be very well integrated with all aspects of the device.
The overall feel is still the same. Same basic inputs, gestures, etc, but for those not ready to pony up the extra $200 plus for a mid-contract upgrade, 3.0 might very well be the thing to tide you over until your next upgrade.
Of course no review of the iPhone is complete without the obligatory bashing of AT&T, so here it goes... AT&T sucks. They have screwed the pooch on upgrading their G3 network capacity and as a result punked out on teathering and friggin picture messaging for iPhone until "later this summer." it's 2009... In the name of all that is good and holy, spend a few dollars from your overpriced data plans and hook yourselves up with a little extra bandwidth so I can send a friggin picture in a friggin text message.
With that said, if you haven't upgraded to 3.0, go, go do it now. Tonight. For the slightly more obsessed among us, I'll see y'all in line on Friday morning.
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