Review: Apple's iPhone 3.0 Software Upgrade (2)

Review: Apple’s iPhone 3.0 Software Upgrade (2)

Posted in iPhone News by admin. Published June 21st, 2009

Copy/Cut/Paste

With the addition of copy/cut/paste in Version 3.0, the iPhone catches up with 25-year-old PCs and 10-year-old PDAs.

To select text on the iPhone, double-tap a word, then adjust the beginning and end-point of the selection by tapping and dragging. You can select the entire document as well. Copying, cutting, and pasting is pretty intuitive, although I’m still getting the hang of some of the twists.

Copy/cut/paste works across third-party applications — for example, I was able to copy a tweet from TweetDeck, and paste it into Evernote. I was also able to easily copy a URL from the Mobile Safari Web browser, paste it into TweetDeck, shorten the URL, add a comment, and then send the result off to my Twitter followers.

Another development that will make it easier to compose documents: You can now tilt the keyboard to landscape mode in the Mail application, and Notes, which makes it easier to type. The iPhone already supported landscape mode typing in other applications, including Mobile Safari.

Voice Memos And Text Notes

Voice memo support lets you record audio from the iPhone’s built-in microphone, and share those audio files by e-mailing, or automatically synchronizing to iTunes on the desktop. I found audio quality to be pretty good; my voice was audible and understandable when recorded in a moderately noisy room. I’m looking forward to giving it a good field test.

And you can now sync text Notes between your iPhone and desktop; that was another baffling hole in the earlier iPhone feature set.

Or, rather, Apple says you can sync text Notes to the desktop; I was unable to get that to work. The iPhone syncs notes to Apple Mail on the desktop (that doesn’t make any sense to me either). Apple Mail on the desktop kept crashing on me when I tried to start it. I don’t usually use Mail.app for e-mail, so it was the first time in months I’d tried to run that particular software.

[Thanks: http://www.informationweek.com]

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