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The complete list of the iPhone OS 3.0 new features (help me out)

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RiceRacerDX

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I've been looking for a single thread that lists every new (known) feature of the new 3.0 OS but haven't found one. I couldn't find one so I decided to start this list. Here's what I've got so far:

(1-26 is from the Apple's 3.0 Keynote presentation)

1 Notes sync
2 Audio/video tags
3 Live streaming
4 Shake to shuffle
5 Proxy support
6 Wi-Fi auto login
7 Ldap
8 EAP SIM
9 Stereo bluetooth
10 iTunes account creation
11 Anti-phishing
12 YouTube ratings
13 Create meeting invitations
14 Auto-fill
15 Call log
16 iTunes login
17 Parental controls
18 Media scrubber
19 OTA profiles
20 VPN on demand
21 Languages
22 YouTube subscriptions
23 YouTube accounts
24 Revoke certs
25 Encrypted profiles
26 EAS policies

27 Cut, Copy, Paste
28 Push Notification
29 Landscape texting
30 MMS
31 New Voice app
32 Spotlight
33 In-app purchasing
34 Mail multiple photos
35 Shake-to-shuffle
36 Expanded stocks app
37 Calendar support
38 Tethering (maybe)
39 Video Recording (maybe, but only speculation at this point)


Help me out here people.....over 100 new features and I'm stuck at naming less than half of them.


What else am I missing????
 
- SMS forwarding, deletion, preview on/off, alert on/off
- Ability to change ringtones straight from Favorites (finally!)
- Custom backgrounds (?)
- Dock with stacks (?)
- App Store screenshot previewing
- Stopwatch minor tweak
- Few polished icons
- Turn-by-turn navigation (?)
- Search in Mail and iPod
- Encrypted backups
- Find My iPhone
- More options for double-clicking Home Button
 
- Landscape view in Safari now gives a semi-transparent menu bar.
- Ability to open link in new tab/page.
 
RiceRacerDX said:
Right, that's a given...I'm trying to list as many features as possible in one convenient thread. Certainly there has to be more than 39.
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well that's not smart... we don't need another speculation thread ( isn't that what you were complaining)

I think making a thread with ACTUAL working features will be more benefitial

for instance i have yet to see video recording in 3.0, so its pure speculation, so what's the point of having it on the list
 
Dr. Cabrera said:
that's stupid, we don't need another speculation thread ( isn't that what you were complaining)

I think making a thread with ACTUAL working features will be more benefitial

for instance i have yet to see video recording in 3.0, so its pure speculation, so what's the point of having it on the list
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Don't tell me now it's 37 features!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh nooooooooooo! :(
 
- Find My iPhone (MobileMe feature)
- Search in Mail
- Search in Notes
- Search in iPod
(And no, the last 3 features are NOT the same as Spotlight.)
 
I've been working on my own list over at everythingicafe.com, if you guys want to help us out there. Check it out. Our list is looking a little more complete, here's what we have so far at the time of me writing this post (some of it ripped off from this thread as well :)):

New Features in 3.0:
  1. Cut/Paste
  2. Copy/Paste
  3. MMS
  4. Landscape keyboard in Notes
  5. Landscape keyboard in Mail
  6. Landscape keyboard in Messages
  7. Forward texts or picture messages
  8. Delete individual texts or picture messages
  9. Tethering
  10. Stereo bluetooth
  11. Spotlight search
  12. Search in Notes
  13. Search in Mail
  14. Search in iPod
  15. In-App purchases
  16. Option to have double clicking the home button go to the Spotlight Search
  17. Option to have double clicking the home button go to the Camera
  18. Preview icon in lower left hand corner for last shot taken in Camera app
  19. Shake to shuffle in iPod
  20. Scrolling of screenshots in App Store
  21. Type of phone used under each call in Recents (i.e., mobile, home, work, etc.)
  22. Call history for each contact
  23. Option to Share Contact in each contact listing
  24. Hold link in Safari to Copy
  25. Hold link in Safari to Open in New Page
  26. Auto Fill contact information, usernames and passwords in Safari
  27. Login to your YouTube account
  28. See Comments in YouTube
  29. Subscribe in YouTube
  30. Rate in YouTube
  31. Shake to undo what you have typed
  32. Option to retry sending failed text messages, indicated by red exclamation point next to text
  33. Turn-by-turn GPS capabilities
  34. Maps can be run inside other applications
  35. Access to dock port for accessories to communicate
  36. Peer-to-peer connectivity using Bluetooth (no Wi-Fi required)
  37. New Voice memo application
  38. Extended Parental controls
  39. Anti-phishing
  40. Wi-Fi auto login
  41. Note syncing in iTunes
  42. Improved Stocks app
  43. New calendar types (CalDAV)
  44. Prompt to confirm deleting a note
  45. Prompt to confirm deleting a photo
  46. Option to select multiple photos to attach to an email
  47. "Find My iPhone" option for MobileMe users
  48. Unlimited size podcast downloads over 3G
  49. Pushing home button on first home screen takes user to Spotlight
  50. Pushing home button on Spotlight takes user to first home screen
  51. Variable speed playback for audio books
  52. App Store subscriptions
  53. Push notifications
  54. Audio/Video tags
  55. Live streaming
  56. Calendar subscriptions
  57. iTunes login
  58. iTunes account creation
  59. Encypted profiles
  60. LDAP (directory services)
  61. VPN on-demand
  62. EAP SIM
  63. Proxy support
  64. OTA profiles
  65. Revoke certificates
  66. Exchange ActiveSync Policies
  67. Media scrubber
  68. More languages
  69. Improved keyboards
  70. Failed app updates now are shown in a duplicate icon and labeled "Paused"
  71. When selecting multiple email to forward/delete, any unread emails' blue dot are shown next to the red selector dot instead of being overridden by the red selector dot.
  72. Non-contact phone calls list their city and state of origin in Recents and Visual Voicemail under the number.
  73. Ability to change ringtones straight from Favorites
  74. Lap time display in Stopwatch
  75. Polished Phone, Messages, and iPod icons
  76. Semi-transparent menu bar in Safari landscape mode
 
Based on the list above, still no way of aborting an SMS/MMS while being sent?

there's too many threads for 3.0 that I don't know where to start asking this
 
Keyboard letters are now indented into the keys. Before it was just black letters and now they're inset slightly. (Look closely, you can see a slight highlight under the letters indicating that they are indented). It's easier to see if you press a key and hold it to look at the bigger version of it.

Also, on the iPod touch... the videos icon is different in Settings.app.

Swiping in notes will bring up a delete button. In all other firmwares, you couldn't do this in notes.
 
Also, when listening to a podcast, tapping the album art will bring up more options (in the area where the genius button normally is). You can tap a button to jump back 30 seconds, playback at 1/2x, 1x, or 2x speed. There is also a envelope button there which I'm assuming would email a link to the podcast or something, but it is currently untappable.
 
mkrishnan said:
The scrubber is the progress / position bar that is shown as a video or song plays. So the iPhone has one now, but I believe at least one "new" feature is that the scrubbing speed can be variable. This is discussed in this news story:

https://www.macrumors.com/2009/04/17/iphone-3-0-beta-galleries-illustrate-new-features/
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Alright, forgive my ignorance. This is the same thing that the touch has had, but it's new to the iPhone? Or is it simply the variable functions available that make this a "new" feature?
 
reubs said:
Alright, forgive my ignorance. This is the same thing that the touch has had, but it's new to the iPhone? Or is it simply the variable functions available that make this a "new" feature?
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Are you saying the iPod touch has variable scrubbing now? The iPhone has scrubbing now, but it doesn't have the variability. I think the scrubbing is in fact exactly the same on the iPod and the iPhone right now. I'm not sure if that's the only change to the scrubbing or if there's something more sophisticated, but I think this feature is saying that both will get the variable rate scrubbing.

I know, meh. Whenever Apple touts the 250 or 300 or 400 new features on a firmware or OS upgrade or a new product, usually 95% are yawners. :p I don't think this one (the scrubber changes) is expected to be anything hugely exciting.
 
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