Satisfying upgrade. iPhone firmware 3.0 arrives.

Finally it’s here, firmware 3.0. For some reason I’ve been quite excited about this update. Ever since I saw the keynote earlier this year, I’ve been having high expectations on this version. Probably because the long-awaited copy and paste function.

I got it installed yesterday on my iPod Touch. It’s not really that much different but it is indeed a nice change. It feels a bit more stable and also snappier. A couple of new features has been introduced, such as Cut, Copy & Paste, which is a very, very welcome change. It really took too long time for this feature to arrive. It’s really a very good and user-friendly implementation of such a function. Very fast and easy to use. Just double tap on the word you want to select. If you want to make a longer selection, just press in one of the corners of the selection and drag it out. It can’ really be easier and it leaves me with nothing else to wish for.

A search function, Spotlight, has also appeared, which is quite useful. I just wish it would be possible to search the web with the same function.

Overall, this is really the most satisfying upgrade of the iPhone version of OS X so far. I haven’t really encountered any bugs yet. So far, so good.