iPhone OS 3.0 Details

Apple's promising 100 new features in iPhone OS 3.0, and while not all of those new additions made it into Tuesday's event, we've got the big ones - that we know about. Here's a rundown of what we've seen introduced:

• Copy, Cut, & Paste: first mentioned and arguably most anticipated, we'll now be able to cut or copy text from all applications, and pictures from the photo album. Yay.
• Multimedia messaging: it isn't a new feature for cell phones, but it's new for the iPhone. And about time.
• Landscape keyboard: across all applications. My sausage thumbs appreciate the news.
• Push notification: not the most coherent system, and non-native, but useful nonetheless.
• In-App purchasing: Remember how the new Kindle app shunts you to Safari for purchases? Not anymore. (In theory.)
• Peer-to-peer networking: good for games but not likely to impact functionality otherwise, at least not until/unless we see native Bluetooth data file sharing.
• Voice memo: another common feature just now being added to the iPhone's native software. Sayonara, 'Recorder.'
• Full search: Spotlight will search your mail, music, videos, notes and contacts all at the same time. AND, all it takes for access is a leftward finger-swipe from the home screen, which sounds very tidy.
• Forwarding of invites and contacts: absolutely necessary for enterprise customers, ho-hum for the rest.
• Stocks: the application has been improved to include headlines for your saved tickers and show charts in landscape mode. Data!
• Turn-by-turn directions: not a native feature and not available with Google Maps for licensing reasons, which disappoints, but still there. Expect to see turn-by-turn real-time directions in apps, but also expect to pay for 'em.
• Stereo Bluetooth: listen to music through Bluetooth headphones unless you have an iPhone Classic ('Classic' being Applespeak for 'Old.')

And there's more. From shaking your phone to auto-shuffle songs to syncing notes with your Mac. Autofill for Safari. Parental controls. It's nuts out there, kids.