The iPhone 3.0 feature compendium

About halfway through writing the enormous tome of an iPhone 3.0 review, I realized that there just wasn't enough room. For every huge new feature, like landscape keyboard, cut-and-paste, etc., it seemed like there were a dozen more smaller improvements and enhancements that cried out for equal attention.

Having painstakingly documented most of these changes during my thorough investigation of 3.0, it seemed only fair to share these results with our dear readers, who themselves have already started chiming with things they've discovered. Even with that, I'm sure there are features and changes that we haven't found yet, so feel free to chime in below if we've missed something.

Messages
Messages now works in landscape mode (including landscape keyboard).

The message sending progress bar is no longer a translucent sheet that takes over the whole screen; instead it's in the menu bar.

You can now delete individual messages (or several individual messages) by tapping on Edit in a conversation, selecting the messages, and hitting delete.

You can now forward messages by tapping on Edit, selecting the messages you want to forward, and tapping forward.

The new Settings -> Messages section features the option for Show Preview (moved from Settings -> General -> Passcode Lock) as well as an option to disable the Repeat Alert (If it's on and you ignore a message, you will be alerted twice more.).

(Setings -> Messages is also where MMS can be enabled, if your carrier allows it; that will also reveal a slider for enabling or disabling the message subject in MMS messages).

Phone
The Recent Calls and Voicemail listings for the phone now display the location of the call (if the number is unknown) or the source of the call (home, work, mobile, etc.) if the number is in your contacts. Previously, this information was only available on the detail screen for each call.

The details screen in Recent Calls has a more detailed listing of recent calls, including their duration and date and time.

The Phone entry in Settings now says "Airplane Mode On" in gray text beside it when--you guessed it--Airplane Mode is on and it's inaccessible.

Contacts can now be edited directly from the Favorites screen and, in fact, anywhere in the system that you can bring them up.

Instant message screennames are now listed in contact records, and will sync from your Address Book.

E-mail addresses appear in smaller text to fit the whole address in the contact record, instead of trailing off with an ellipsis.

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