So I don’t have a new iPhone 3G, but I do (finally) have the 2.0 software, so the only difference between my iPhone and the new one is 3G and GPS.
Getting the 2.0 software was a little problematic. It wasn’t available until late on Friday evening, and the re-blast process was quite painful. Half way through, iSync kicked in and confused it, so I had to manually do the update again.
I already had a .Mac account and of course now it’s called mobileme. The branding is a bit confusing though as there was no corresponding OS X update, so everything is still called .Mac and addresses are mac.com instead of me.com. It all works though, but confusing nonetheless.
[Update: this finally got fixed with an OS X system update]
I suppose the two biggest changes in 2.0 are “push” calendars, contacts and email, and installable apps from the App Store.
Push works very well, although the Preview 4.0 version of Safari I’m using has trouble with the web apps. Mails, etc do get pushed to the iPhone in a timely manner so all is well there. No more docking/syncing to keep everything up to date.
There doesn’t appear to be any ‘push’ support with OS X desktop apps - maybe there’s isn’t supposed to be, I don’t know. Bit of a shame though.
The App Store in both iTunes and on the phone work very well.
I started with NetNewsWire, Facebook, Bloomberg, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Racer (Mario Kart clone), AirMe (photo->flickr app) and a few random things.
Mostly good. Nitro Racer is a laugh, but not as good as Mario Kart on DS.
AirMe looks like it could be interesting as it posts snapped pics to Flickr, titling and tagging based on location and weather. Example here.
Emailing a photo from the iPhone still shrinks it down to 800×600 and seems to strip out the geo-tagging data, so AirMe is somewhat essential. This pic was emailed from the normal camera app (and shows the screenshot capability of iPhone).
Oh, the other app that is quite useful is the remote control. Lets me control the iTunes library on my Mac Mini without having to have its screen switched on. Very useful that.
In summary, it all seems very good. Not sure I want/need to 3G version yet. Certainly not for £149 (or whatever) for the 16GB version. I think I’ll be quite happy to stay with the 2.5G one for some time.
OK, enough iPhone posts for a while 
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i found yesterday a big let down from apple, very disappointed
first, tried to get a 3G iphone, but preorder didnt get fulfilled and despite going to the shop @ 6:30 also didnt managed to get one - looks like could be a few weeks until i get my grubby mits on one!
second, what a screw up apple had with mobile me! .mac was down for well over 24 hours , me.com was a disaster for hours when it finally arrived. and in typical .mac fashion, very little info coming from apple about what was going on, and when it would be resolved
third me.com, looks nice but is slooowww, (though admittedly now seems to finally getting to usable speed in last few hours).. but even then a bit poor… e.g. address formats only US, germany, france and japan
as an apple fan, i reckon to jobs has some a**e kicking to do on monday.
im sure come next month, all on the apple ship will be smooth again - lets hope they learn some lessons.
Good info, I tried the AirMe app and I am really impressed with the gps tagging. And it’s FREE!
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