My Top 5 Favorite iPhone 3.0 Features

Among Apple’s many announcements today was the release of the iPhone 3.0 software update (available June 17). It took me a while to cut through all of the news surrounding the mediocre hardware update to find the feature list for the software update, but lo and behold: here it is.

Below are the top 5 features I’ve most been looking forward to:

  1. Sync Notes. This is by far my number 1 most requested feature of the iPhone. The fact that it hasn’t been able to do this very basic function for so long is absurd. It’s actually forced me to completely change the way I manage my to do’s, and as a result, it’s hindered my productivity significantly. Definitely looking forward to this.
  2. Cut & Paste. Another super-basic feature that’s been talked about around the blogosphere since the iPhone’s introduction back in 2007.
  3. Spotlight Search. I’m mostly looking forward to this because you can use it to search your email, something I’ve been wishing the iPhone could do forever. Great work at finally adding this!
  4. Safari Improvements. Looking forward to auto-fill for usernames and passwords. This will be especially helpful with Gmail, which I use to star emails sometimes when I’m not near a computer. Again, basic improvement, but a really nice touch. :)
  5. Internet Tethering. Oh wait, we don’t get that in the U.S. Thanks, AT&T.

So those are my Top 5 favorite iPhone 3.0 features. They’re all pretty standard on most of the other phones on the market. I would have loved to have seen the ability to run background applications, not to mention the inclusion of camera flash on the 3GS… Maybe next year.

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