iPhone 3.0

Apple hosted an event this morn­ing to present the latest iter­a­tion of the iPhone soft­ware to the media & devel­op­ers. Looks like we are getting a lot more stuff to really boost the func­tion­al­ity of the iPhone (and iPod Touch). There will be 100 new features — with an impres­sive look­ing imple­men­ta­tion of copy & paste.

As a quick overview:

• Apple noti­fi­ca­tions
• Search (Spot­light)
• Copy & paste
• In appli­ca­tion e-commerce
• Peer-to-peer connec­tiv­ity
• Voice memo’s
• Audio recorder
• MMS support
• CalDAV calen­dar type
• Calen­dar subscriptions
• Shake to shuffle
• Shake to undo
• Stereo Blue­tooth output
• Auto fill
• You Tube account access

The vaunted push noti­fi­ca­tions didn’t appear. Appar­ently they’re work­ing on it but it caused rapid battery drain. Their Apple noti­fi­ca­tions system is the stand-in here — I’m sure devel­op­ers will make it work in ways its not supposed to to mimic some push functionality.

Not getting Flash support BUT if the source uses video in HTML5 it will be supported as H.264 and a couple of other formats/options.

The update will be free to all 3G phones but a paid upgrade (US$10) for gen 1 phones and iPod Touch — some of the features won’t be avail­able on gen 1 phones though. Devel­oper Beta of the SDK avail­able today.

Here’s a tran­script of the event.