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what's up guys and girls John retinue here and I want to give you just a short overview of iPhone OS 3.0 currently running on the iPhone 3G this is a free upgrade for all iPhone owners original iPhone and 3G and a $9.99 upgrade for iPod Touch owners so let's get right into it and show you the highlights of the device and the highlights in the operating system particularly the first thing that I want to show you is the landscape keyboard which for me is just a dramatic update I was always a little bit inaccurate with a portrait keyboard but right now there's a landscape keyboard available through all applications this makes typing so much easier and surprisingly more accurate and while we're talking about typing in text one of the highlights of OS 3.0 in addition to this keyboard is now cut copy and paste so let me show you how that works let's say I want to copy that bunch of gibberish I just typed if I hold it down let go I'll get a select select all or paste button so right now we'll hit select and I get these two blue bars and I can move it all along and you see the magnifying glass shows me what I'm highlighting let's say I want to highlight it all now I've got cut copy and paste so right now we will copy it and let's say I wanted to paste that into a new text message so I'll go ahead and open up my messaging application I'm gonna put my hand right over the top here and we're gonna open up a new one there we go and let's say I want to paste that right in so I'll go to text let go and I have that paste button I hit paste and there it is and that cut copy and paste will really work on any text on the phone it'll work on text and email it'll work on text in SMS it'll work on text in your browser or the anywhere you have a text you now can cut copy and paste and Apple did a really good job implementing this throughout so while I'm here on the SMS screen I should say that OS 3.0 is very capable of MMS if you're watching this in a country other than the US you will be able to send MMS right now which are multimedia messaging so that's video messaging or picture messaging but right now in Kinki does not support that so unfortunately I can't show you another thing I can't show you that OS 3.0 supports is tethering meaning using your phone as a modem once again because 18 T's not supporting it but they will later on in the summer and if you're in another country using the iPhone 3G or soon to be the iPhone 3GS you can take advantage of the tethering so go back to the home screen here and it looks very similar to really all the other homes you're familiar with but there is a big difference if I scroll that over to the right I now have Universal Search and you can see how it's playing along here so let's show you Universal Search it does essentially this will search for contacts calendar iTunes think of it as spotlight for your iPhone so let's say I want to look up contact information let's say I want to look up Brandon Mini Mini as I start typing you'll see Brandon's show up and I get all of Brandon's information right there I get his name and I keep going anything with B I've got some emails from Priceline just because it's got that B R in it and it really does make it nice and easy for searching go ahead and hit close and it'll go right back to it and if you want to launch it from another screen hit the home button again and it'll pull it up when you're there you want to get rid of it push the home button and it's gone so OS 3.0 will also introduce some new built-in applications namely voice memos and voice memos is really simple you can probably tell what it does just by looking at it it records your voice to go ahead and hit record you start talking lets you know you're recording when you're done recording you pushed up and you can view all of your recordings it really is pretty simple and relatively straightforward and as I showed earlier there is a landscape keyboard but really all the native iPhone apps and the ones that come bundled now support landscape and that's highlighted by let's say the new stocks application so you're a few stocks that I have and the old iPhone it was just pretty static when he turned it landscape nothing happened but now let me show you what happens turn the landscape and you've got your chart for your equity you can go ahead and scroll through and you can pretty much view your portfolio straight through here the landscape actually is very handy and as you follow the chart you'll see it'll tell you what the price was and the corresponding day right there kinda neat so we will go back to the home screen there are a lot of tweaks to OS 3.0 that I can show you but I really want to keep this sort of a short highlight of what OS 3.0 can do when the iPhone 3GS launch isn't by the time you're watching this and they have already launched there's gonna be a lot of new functionality built in such as built-in compass and a few other features that the iPhone 3G will not have but since this is a free upgrade it is quite nice be able to have the ability to do all of these little things one other thing that I should mention is I'm not gonna demonstrate here if you now have the ability to download TV shows and movies right on your phone the I'll show you I'll show you right there via iTunes on the device you can see I just have a ton of applications here and that again is one of the nice things about the iPhone 3G and really one of the final features that I want to talk about is the YouTube application you know I have the ability to sign in and comment on YouTube videos which is fantastic you can also write them 1 2 3 4 or 5 stars really is just a nice added feature I'll show you what that looks like real quickly I don't believe I'm signed in on my iPhone but if you go to more you have the ability to sign in so my videos in my history I am signed in let's go ahead and we'll take a look on the most viewed videos real quick and we'll just pretend that when you finished watching it we'll head end and now you get a description more videos by that particular producer you get all the comments and if you hit back again you're right back to your homescreen that you saw previously with older versions of the software overall up in beta testing 3.0 for a couple months now and it's been great I've seen it get better and better with each iteration of the beta software and finally with the gold release it really seems to be a very solid operating system and one that I definitely recommend you all get downloading if you want to download it plug your iPod Touch or iPhone into your computer go to iTunes and hit update and you'll be good to go and one thing I also want to mention so now I'm going to get a lot of questions on it is what that little icon is right there and that just indicates call forwarding that's all and I just wanted to give a short overview of iPhone OS 3.0 hope you enjoyed for exclusive content be sure to follow me on Twitter twitter.com slash John for Lakers see in the next video bye bye