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Apple is all set to launch the iPhone OS 3.0, it’s the Kick Ass thing I have ever seen in the connected world. Apple is going to rule the planet with this thing in everybody’s hand, here are gory details of what’s it’s gonna cheer you with:

For Users:

• Cut-Copy-Paste, not only within the application but between apps too.
• MMS, send media over cell phone network.
• SMS forward, even to multiple contacts.
• Contact Sharing over Bluetooth, SMS, vCard.
• Stereo Bluetooth, A2DP.
• Landscape on-the-fly re-layout-ing for all applications.
• Improved Stocks Application, provided by Yahoo!.
• Calendar sharing, calDAV, subscriptions.
• Search within the applications such as email, SMS etc.
• One shot search across all applications – Spotlight (MAC Lovers know it already.)
• Notes Sync.
• Shake to Shuffle.
• Shake to Undo-Redo. (Pretty Cool)
• WiFi Auto Login.
• Antiphishing and Autofill for Safari.
• OTA Profiles.
• LDAP Support.
• Support for Turn-By-Turn GPS Apps.
• Voice Memos, sharable over MMS or email.
• Over 100+ New features for users.

For Developers:

• 1000+ new APIs to build apps on.
• In-App-Purchase.
• Peer to Peer Connectivity, a revolution in iPhone mobile gaming and local sharing.
• Accessories, custom applications can be written which can talk directly to the connected hardware such as blood pressure tool or sugar lever measure or even a musical instrument.
• Built in Map control APIs.
• Push notifications.

I can’t wait, simply can’t wait for it. Countdown Begins, Apple is launching it this summer. I would recommend watching the preview at least once, it rocks.

Thanks Apple for making a nice thing which I love, is always with me, is always ON and is always connected, even more nicer.

I finally bought an iPhone, I bought it two days after it’s launch in India. People had already started asking me about plan to change my last cell phone because it’d already been 6 months since I did that.
I am loving it, it does not have a few basic features, I am missing the copy-paste and the message forward, but it’s a marble, hardware and usability are simply awesome. Now when I have a Official Mac, I love the marriage of an iPhone and a MacBook Pro.
I spent 750 buck and bought a rubber cover but ended up not using it, I use a sticky screen guard though.
WiFi, GPS, EDGE, 3G (Not available in India) are faster and better then all my earlier cell phones, then best in this thing is the iPod.
I am lovin’ it.

Here is my new Phone, HTC Artemis (P3300). dump of specifications:

- HTC Artemis platform
- 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- Announced 2006, September
- Dimensions: 108 x 58 x 16.8 mm
- Weight 127 g
- Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
- Size 240 x 320 pixels, 58 x 42 mm
- Handwriting recognition
- Ringtones Type Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3
- Vibration – Yes
- Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries, Photocall
- Call records Practically unlimited
- Card slot microSD (TransFlash),
- 64 MB RAM, 128 MB ROM
- Texas Instruments OMAP850 200 MHz processor
- Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
- EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
- WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
- Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
- USB – Yes
- Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 PocketPC
- Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
- Browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (PocketIE)
- Games Yes, order now
- Colors Silver
- Camera 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video(QCIF)
- Built-in GPS receiver
- TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software
- Pocket Office(Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Java MIDP 2.0
- FM radio
- Voice memo
- MP3/AAC player
- Video/audio album
- Built-in handsfree
- Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1250 mAh
- Stand-by Up to 200 h
- Talk time Up to 4 h

When you buy in India you ger one of the Asian Maps free with MapKING GPS Navigator Software Free, I got the Bangalore one registered, working beautifully.

Tags: HTC, Artemis, P3300, PDA, Pocket PC