WWDC: What we know, what we expect with iPhone 3.0
As Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference nears, speculation over what's in store for the iPhone has reached an ear-splitting, glass-shattering pitch. In the wake of Apple's departure from Macworld Expo, WWDC is the last remaining annually scheduled event for the company, so expectations are high. Will Apple have some surprises up its sleeve? Or will eager fans and watchers have to "merely" be satisfied with what Apple's already announced--particularly when it comes to the next version of the operating system for its popular iPhone?
What we know
Just for the sake of a refresher course, let's review what Apple has already publicly disclosed about the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0 update. During March's special event announcing the next version of the iPhone OS and its attendant software development kit (SDK), the company boasted of more than 1,000 new application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers as well as more than 100 new features for users.
Among the features plugged for average Joe iPhone-user are a number of much-anticipated improvements--a list topped by Apple's implementation of cut, copy, and paste, which will finally allow the ability to move text not just within applications, but also between applications.
Apple also showed off Multimedia Messaging (MMS), finally bringing to the iPhone a feature that most conventional cell phones have had for years. Thanks to a new Messages application that replaces the current Text app, no longer will iPhone users be restricted to sending and receiving messages of purely text: now those messages can contain images, voice recordings, and even location or contact information as well.
Speaking of voice recordings, Apple showed off a brand new application, Voice Memos, which allows users to quickly and easily use the iPhone's built-in microphone (or, in the case of the iPod touch, an attached microphone) to record audio as well as trim it and share it with others via e-mail or MMS.
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