iPhone 3.0 software features at a glance

Trent Hawkins

#1 – 7:36 AM June 22, 2009

Ooh! a compass

zenbeatnik

#2 – 8:42 AM June 22, 2009

Ooooh! I can launch Nike antiaircraft missiles with my iPod!

Anonymous Anonymous

#3 – 12:03 PM June 22, 2009

Ooh! A compass, indeed.
It may seem a trivial thing, but without one the only way a GPS device has of knowing which way you're facing is if you break into a trot.

What I'd like to know is if it's a regular compass or a 3D one which knows which way it's facing regardless of orientation. If it's the 3D kind then you can start doing HUD-like overlays.

Barry

#4 – 1:53 PM June 22, 2009

They could definitely add more features from 3.0 to the older iPhones... especially since jailbreakers can add video recording to any iPhone, and it's like it'd be hard to allow the older iPhones to have voice commands after they are phones, it's not like the 3GS has a microphone and the others do not.

And not that I care, but how is Nike exclusive to the 3GS is any old iPod nano or class or whatever can use Nike? Yet again, Apple rips people off. (I do love my 120GB classic tho.)

Sai Kai Lee

#5 – 2:42 PM June 22, 2009

Android phones already provide "Augmented Reality" with apps like NRU, and WikiTude AR.

dculberson

#6 – 7:47 AM June 23, 2009

Barry, I think it might be that the Nike receiver is built into the 3GS and not into the earlier models. I could be wrong, but if that's the case, it's hardware that just isn't there on the earlier ones.