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Today was the big day.  Apple announced the new iPhone OS software that will be released in summer, available now if you are a developer like me hehe.. The biggest downfall for me is that some features won’t be available with the original iPhone.  More on that later.  They will be available for free to iPhone users, but $9.95 for iPod touch users.

New features:

Push service – Applications will finally be able to run in the background!  What does this mean?  Basically you can close a program and go into another, and the first program will still be running.  So for example if you have AIM running it will always send you your messages.

Cut and Paste – Finally!  It’s here, you will be able to cut and paste between applications

MMS messaging!  You will be able to send messages, gps locations, contact card, audio file, etc.  Feature not available on original iPhone.

Universal Search – You can now search in emails, and through out other applications.

Map Support – Applications can now make use of Google maps and there will be turn by turn direction.

Peer to Peer – you can connect multiple iPhones together through wireless for data transfer or gameplay.

Stereo Bluetooth headsets – not supported by the original iPhone.

These are the main items that I am excited about, but there are plenty more!

Still no video recording, laptop tethering, or Flash support.  Also no word on hardware upgrade.

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