I was a little disappointed there wasn’t new iPhone hardware announced today. I’m sure that more flash memory is coming this summer, but I was hoping for, at the very least, more RAM for running apps, fantasizing that it would make for fewer hangs up and performance issues. A better camera would be nice too.
On the other hand, what they have announced sounds awesome:
- Cut and paste in all apps. The phone is useful without it, but it would be even better with it.
- P2P bluetooth support for iPhone/iPhone communication, and Bluetooth stereo audio on 3G iPhones. Bluetooth support to be enabled in the 2nd gen iPod touch too. It looks like support for specialized bluetooth peripherals, like Bluetooth glucose monitors, is also included. No announcements regarding bluetooth mouse or keyboard.
- Support for peripherals via the dock connector. I’m hoping for something that allows transfer of photos photos from a digital camera. It would be great to be able to upload high-quality photos directly from an iPhone.
- Push is coming, finally. I’d still like to see some limited support for background processing for, if nothing else, audio playback and VoIP.
- Live streaming audio & video over HTTP in the media player app
- Richer APIs for location, including embedded maps & reverse geocoding.
- Multiple photos per e-mail message
- Landscape keyboard in all applications.
- Search across applications
- Better calendar sync support
- Built in Voice Notes
- MMS support. They say that hardware issues limit this to the 3G iPhone. Sounds bogus to me.
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