Apple on Wednesday afternoon formally rolled out iPhone Software 3.0 for existing iPhone and iPod touch customers, delivering some long-requested features such as copy & paste.
Features
In total, iPhone Software 3.0 delivers over 100 new features when compared to the previous version (2.2.1). Some of the more prominent enhancements include:
- 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.
Availability
iPhone and iPhone 3G customers can download the new iPhone OS 3.0 software for free while iPod touch customers will first need to purchase the update for $9.95 (US) before downloading and installing it.
Upgrading
To update your iPhone or iPod touch to iPhone Software 3.0, make sure you are using iTunes 8.2 and then connect your iPhone or iPod to your computer. When iTunes opens, select your iPhone or iPod under Devices in the Source List on the left.
In the Summary pane, click “Check for Update.” Click Download and Install. Do not disconnect your device until the update has finished.
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A combined effort was needed by the Dev Team and The Chronic Dev Team, along with the members/owners of the iPod Touch 2G over on iPodTouchFans.com to create a fully untethered jailbreak the iPod Touch 2G. They are calling it the 24kpwn LLB patch and it’s now available for download and use by iPod Touch 2G owners.
The Dev Team and others were hoping to hold off on releasing this exploit as it may help in jailbreaking and ultimately unlocking the next iPhone rumored to be coming out in June 2009, but everyone is hoping that it may be too late for Apple to recall hardware components to fix the exploit.
The exploit is at such a low level that the Dev Team say that it will keep the device open no matter what firmware. So congratulations to the iPhone Dev Team once again and also to all who contributed to make this happen, I know that this is fantastic news for iPod Touch 2G owners. You can read the full post from the Dev Team below:
iPod Touch 2G: Hi, welcome to the jailbreak family
The iPod Touch 2G is now another member of the “pwned for life” family. It has a fatal flaw in its bootrom that means you will always be able to pwn these devices no matter what firmware updates come along. This is the full, untethered jailbreak, something that iPod Touch 2G users have not had before today.
Those of you who hang out on IRC or were able to read between the lines in the various blogs, forums, wikis and twitters may realize that we — and importantly, that’s a that’s a collective, cross-team “we” 
— had been hoping to hold onto this full ipt2g jailbreak until the next version of the iPhone came out. That didn’t happen, but maybe it’s too late for Apple to fix the bootrom in the next iPhone.
The raw patch to the firmware that transforms the “tethered” jailbreak into an untethered one was released here but it’s not yet packaged up into the PwnageTool or QuickPwn flows. But other threads there are pulling together tutorials and other tips for those of you anxious to try this out now. For the curious, the hole itself is explained here. There’s also a “pen and paper” analysis that helped the hybrid team venture transform the hole into an exploit. Hopefully that will be up for viewing soon too, if only because of its geeky beauty
Anyway, to all those iPod Touch 2G users out there who waited so patiently through all the various incarnations of the jailbreak for Apple’s latest device — welcome to the family!
For the rest of us, the jailbreak “cat and mouse” game will continue in the summer with the next iPhone. And the carrier unlock “cat and mouse” game continues as ever.
Tutorials and new versions of QuickPWN and PWNAGE will eb released soon, please be patient or if you are adventurous and find a tutorial or create one of your own, please share it with us so others can use it.
Update: Here it is. Just drop it into your existing pwnagetool or xpwn flow. You can even combine it with the nor-only variations to make this easy to install from iTunes without touching your main fs.
http://iphwn.org/24kpwn.zip
It’s bitter sweet that this has to come out in this manner, because it *really* would have been nice to save for the next iPhone
. On the other hand, nobody knows the struggle to jb like iPod Touch 2G owners 
So it’s good for them.
Now it’s a waiting game to see if Apple can react fast enough.
Edit:
The patch needs to be applied directly to the LLB without decrypting it first, using “bspatch” or equivalent. The resulting img3 should have this sha1:
SHA1(LLB.n72ap.RELEASE.img3)= 82734c7cdf945ba5421b83962aab3ab91e4fb23a
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Griffin, a maker of some great iPod/iPhone accessories like the iTrip, has come out now with a voice recorder app for the iPhone/iPod touch 2G.
iTalk Recorder’s simple, intuitive user interface lets you start/stop, choose Good/Better/Best sample rates, and manage the list of your recordings, all with just one finger.
Run iTalk to record on your iPhone or 2nd generation iPod touch. Run iTalk Sync on your computer to transfer your recordings from your iPhone to your computer via Wi-Fi.
Features:
- High-quality handheld recording using your iPhone or iPod touch
- Easy, convenient user interface and controls
- Drag & drop wireless file transfers to your computer
- User-selectable 11.025 kHz, 22.05 kHz, or 44.10 kHz sample rates
(via iClarified.com)
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