Finally, the wait is over! Apple released iPhone OS 3.0 yesterday to a hungry audience of iPhone lovers just itching to get their paws on the new software update. Overall, we were pleased with the 3.0, however, many people would argue that some of the most satisfying new features should have been there from the beginning. We’re looking at you Cut/Copy/Paste and Search. But those aside, the update seems to have made the iPhone sing a little bit, with noticeable speed enhancements from app to app.

Here is a more complete list of what you can find in the new 3.0 update:

• Cut, Copy & Paste: Quickly cut, copy, and paste text from application to application. Select entire blocks of web text with a tap. Copy and paste images from the web, too.
• Landscape Keyboard: Rotate iPhone to landscape to use a larger keyboard in Mail, Messages, Notes, and Safari.
• MMS: Send MMS messages and include video, photos, audio, and contact info. Even tap to snap a picture or shoot a video right inside Messages. MMS support for U.S.-based AT&T customers won’t be available until late summer.
• Spotlight Search: Find what you’re looking for across your iPhone, all from one place. Spotlight searches all of your contacts, email, calendars, and notes, as well as everything in your iPod.
• Voice Memos: Capture a memo, a meeting, or any audio recording on the go. Voice Memos works with the built-in iPhone microphone or with the mic on your headset.
• Improved Calendar: Create meetings via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and subscribe to calendars with new CalDAV support.
• Buy Movies, TV Shows, and Audiobooks: Download movies, TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks from the iTunes Store on your iPhone.
• Safari Improvements: Enjoy faster performance, autofill user names and passwords, and more.
• Internet Tethering: Share your Internet connection with your laptop with Internet tethering via Bluetooth or USB. Tethering is not currently offered in the U.S. and some other countries.
• Stereo Bluetooth: Connect compatible Bluetooth stereo headphones, car kits, or other accessories.
• Automatic Wi-Fi Login: Log in to a Wi-Fi hotspot and iPhone automatically logs you in when you connect again.
• Sync Notes: Never leave a note behind. Now you can sync all the notes you write on your iPhone back to your Mac or PC.
• Parental Controls: Decide what music, videos, and apps your kids can access.
• iTunes Store Account: Create and log in to one or more iTunes Store accounts directly from your iPhone.
• YouTube Login: Log in to your YouTube account to save and sync bookmarks and rate favorites.
• Shake to Shuffle: Give iPhone a shake and it shuffles to a different song in your music library.
• New Languages: iPhone supports 30 languages and more than 40 keyboard layouts.
• MobileMe Find My iPhone and Remote Wipe: Find your iPhone if you lose it and protect your privacy with Remote
  Wipe.
• Run the Latest Apps: Run the next generation of iPhone apps, like peer-to-peer games and more.

So how did your upgrade go? Will these new features keep you tied over for a little while or are you going to still buy an iPhone tomorrow? Let us know in the comments, can’t wait to hear what you have to say!

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