New iPhone and OS

Hey guys, this is MacKids1. As the day arrives tomorrow that the new iPhone will be coming out, I feel that it is necessary to make a video on one, what's coming in 3.0, and two, what's coming only to the new iPhone.

So first of all, I'm going to go over what's new in 3.0 that all of you will enjoy and love, and then I'll go over the new features built into the iPhone 3GS.

The first thing that's coming to the iPhone 3.0 is up to 10,000 new APIs, and that includes in-app purchasing, which allows you to have people purchase features inside of your app and pay money right from your app to get like a feature in the app or something. The next is peer-to-peer connectivity. Peer-to-peer connectivity allows two machines on the network, such as iPhone and iPod Touch, to talk to each other over, say, Bonjour. So that means that you could have like a multiplayer game going over the network on your Wi-Fi network.

Third party accessories, this is one of their major things. You can take a piece of hardware that someone writes a piece of software for the iPhone, and you can use that piece of hardware on your iPhone. So they used, for example, a medical blood pump tester. I guess they just test your blood pressure or something. You could plug that into your iPhone and get an application that supports it, and then it would allow you to use that piece of hardware.

Push notification, okay, so instead of putting processes in the background, it allows applications to bring up text notifications, like little icons over their icon. It's called the badge and audio alerts, so applications can make sounds in the background and all this fancy stuff while they're not in the app. So that's great.

Turn-by-turn navigation, now they'll allow other applications to use turn-by-turn directions. Cut, copy, and paste is a major thing that everyone's excited about. I've used it already—I’ve been using it for the last few months, and I don't like it too much, but I don't know, you'll probably like it more than me.

The landscape keyboard will be available in all applications that Apple makes come with the iPhone. They'll now have a landscape keyboard. Multimedia messaging lets you message images and audio files. It doesn't work with other phones, so I can't multimedia message my friends who are over on Verizon who has like the LG Shine from my iPhone, so that's disappointing in my opinion.

Voice memos, um, there are already apps on the App Store to do this, but with voice memos, when you're recording, you can exit voice memos and go into another app while you're recording in voice memos. So in my opinion, that's pretty cool.

Spotlight, okay, the great thing about Spotlight is that it comes on all iPhones now, even though they mention it as a feature in the iPhone 3GS. Spotlight doesn't let you search files that apps keep, but it lets you search for apps themselves, for songs; that's useful, for contacts; that could be very useful, so that's great.

The way they integrated that, you slide to the left one more time to go into Spotlight when you're in your home screen. I think they could have put it in the menu bar on the top right there; that would have been better in my opinion. They have Bluetooth support for stereo headsets, and iPod Touch second gen will actually be able to take advantage of this, so that's great.

Tethering works in other places, not the USA. AT&T probably will support that eventually, but they don't right now. Okay, it's going to be $10 to upgrade if you're an iPod Touch user and free if you're an iPhone user.

Okay, so then there's the iPhone 3GS. There are a lot of new features coming to the iPhone 3GS to make it just the product to have it faster. It's up to two times faster. In my opinion, the iPhone's pretty slow, so that would bring it up to like normal speed when you just click an app, it's there right away.

Now, that's for their apps and stuff. If you have an app that's doing a lot of activity, it won't open as fast, but you know, still, it's just like they made Snow Leopard faster, and they fine-tuned Snow Leopard. That's what the iPhone 3GS basically is. They fixed a major issue or they added a major thing that people want: a better camera, three megapixels now, and along with that comes video shooting 30 frames per second.

Now, I think they could do cheap video shooting for the old iPhone, which is why this is very frustrating that they're not doing that. Now I'm going to have to get the iPhone 3GS to do video shooting. That is dumb. You should already be able to do video shooting since you can physically on the old iPhone, but they want to bring people and make them get their new product because they want people to buy this new thing.

But there hasn't changed enough for them to stop selling the old iPhone, so they still sell the old iPhone. They added voice control, something every other phone has. It should have had it in the first place, but this means that you can speak by pressing a key, and that means you can call someone, play songs, tell what song you're playing, a bunch of other cool stuff too.

Digital compass, it's cool. It can actually tell the magnetic north and the real north, and that way you can have real turn-by-turn directions because it knows which way you're facing.

So that's that. Then Spotlight and MMS, they emphasize on the iPhone 3G, even though they're really parts of OS 3.0. So those are the new features in the new iPhone and in the new operating system.

I hope everyone gets 3.0 because I might make a few apps for it. If you can, don't—if you can get the iPhone 3GS, but I suggest if you want to be able to get the next new iPhone, then maybe the iPhone 3GS isn't the best idea ever because with the iPhone 3GS, they're locking you into your AT&T plan.

So if you have an existing AT&T plan, either you have to create a new AT&T plan for this new phone or cancel your AT&T plan, which costs $200, and add this new iPhone 3GS. So either way, if your two-year plan hasn't been up yet, then you're in trouble. My two-year plan ends in like a week or two—maybe it's a month, I don't know, but it ends pretty soon, so I don't have to worry about that too much.

But I'm not going to get 3GS as soon as it comes out. I'm definitely waiting for my plan to end because that'll save me $200.

So anyway, this is the iPhone 3GS and iPhone OS 3.0 review video, just going over it because yesterday 3.0 came out, and tomorrow iPhone 3GS is coming out.

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