UK iPhone

Apple have announced a sneak peek of the 3.0 upgrade to the iPhone operating system, which will be released in the summer. The big news is that copy and paste will finally make an appearance. The way it works is that you double-tap a word and a bubble comes up with options to cut or copy. The selection can be dragged to include adjacent words. Presumably the selection can then be pasted into any other application (unlike a Samsung touch-phone which I used recently, which only allows copy and paste in the same application: less than totally useful).

Another new feature is multi-media messaging: finally you will be able to send pictures etc by text message. Annoyingly this will only be available on 3G iPhones.

This would seem to mitigate against the rumour reported previously about a new iPhone. As Apple are able to radically upgrade iPhones by releasing new software, the need to upgrade the hardware is greatly reduced. The current hardware platform has everything that is available on the competition (3G, GPS) and so there is no obvious advantage to creating new hardware. So I now believe that there will be no new iPhone in the summer, and O2 are cutting prices to move as much hardware as possible before the contract goes to Orange.

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