iPhone OS 3.0: Cut, Copy, Paste & More!

Today's iPhone OS 3.0 event has just wrapped up, and with Den Den on vacation I've yet to piece together all that was unveiled, although some of the highlights include:

• In-app purchases
• Peer-to-peer Bluetooth
• Maps available in any application
• Turn-by-turn directions via Core Location GPS technology
• Push notification
• Apple's own Voice Memo app
• And of course: copying and pasting across all applications.

Finally!

SMS messages and third-party-app text can be copied just as easily as web page or email text, as well as text from Notes. Simply double-tap a snippet of text to select and up pops two grab points that let you resize your text-selection box (and in Notes, at least, we saw a "select all" function). The cut, copy and paste buttons are self-explanatory, but here's one awesome feature that isn't: just shake the phone to undo your last copy, paste, or cut.

Stay tuned for a more measured round-up once the ink on all the press releases dries!