iPhone 3.0 First Look : iPhone now the Best phone on the market?

So, most iPhone users will have heard about the upcoming iPhone 3.0 firmware. I finally downloaded and installed the beta on my iPhone today, first thoughts... Well it's lovely to find that beta software from Apple is more stable than most final release Microsoft software. But anyway, this post isn't to show my general Microsoft hate (or apple fanboism if you'd prefer) So yeah, back on topic. What does the new firmware include?

• Cut, Copy, Paste and Undo!
• MMS Messaging
• Voice Recording
• Bluetooth Functions
• Search facilities (like spotlight on the mac)
• Internet Tethering...

Pretty nice list of features, copy paste is something we've been waiting for, for a long time. The way apple have implemented it is nothing less than genius. It is so smoothly integrated with the phone it feels like that's how it should be done everywhere and I'd love to see the system on my actual mac. Double tap your text, if you want more than the selected area drag then click copy. To undo items you simply shake the iPhone!

MMS messaging, although I can't recieve properly yet due to O2, is just part of the normal SMS style layout, with pictures just dropping into conversation when sent and recieved. Same with voice recording just click to listen to them! I haven't tried Business card sending yet, probably at a later date though!

I'm gonna skip ahead now to this...

Internet Tethering is something I would have loved to see on the iPhone and it's now here! By simply pairing my iPhone to the mac I can now surf the internet anywhere I have a phone signal. I was only connected at the lowest speed (as you can see in the screenshot) yet I was seeing 8.0kbps download speed, chatting on MSN and generally surfing the internet happily!

I'll leave you with just a couple of screenshots that I've taken so far, once i've used the iPhone 3.0 a bit more i'll put up anything else interesting i've found! But It's definatly something to look forward to. As this post title says, I would now consider the iPhone to be the best phone on the market, all we need is a camera update now and i'll be uberhappy!