
Video Camera: The iPhone now has a video camera, 30fps VGA with audio. With this new video feature, you can create and edit videos in your hand and upload them to blogs or websitrs or send them over email or text to friends. In addition to this, you can push it right to YouTube instantly.
Voice Control: By holding down the home button, you can now give voice commands to your phone. You can tell your phone to play specific songs or playlists, or open applications to dial phone numbers by name or number.
Digital Compass: The compass application is a new app that shows you your magnetic location. By double tapping the compass the application will integrate with Google maps to show you which direction you are facing.
Maps: The Google maps service is now able to be embedded into any of your applications. All Google map features are now available to your iPhone.
TomTom: TomTom is pleased to bring the best navigation and maps to the iPhone. The apploication will be released to the iPhone App store later this summer. As an optional extra you can purchase dock connecting device so that the GPS can be used safely in the car. The GPS comes with loud and clear turn by turn directions.
Cut, Copy and Paste: Finally, the iPhone has a cut, copy and paste feature. In addition, there is a new undo feature that will allow you to undo your last action by shaking the device.
Landscape: The original landscape feature has now been programmed to work with all applications.
Push Notifications: This allows developers and users to custom many of their features, like texting alerts and work related integration. Now, doctors are able to use push notification with "Airstrip" to track patients vitals even if they are out of the hospital altogether. They can read and receive the latest reports and even monitor a patients waveform data.
Messaging: New with the iPhone 3GS is MMS. You can now send and receive photos, contacts, videos and really any multimedia message with one simple text.
Search: Search your calendar, notes, texts and emails. In addition to this, the apple iPhone now has "spotlight" integrated into the 3GS.
iTunes: rent and purchase movies straight from your phone. If you are at an airport and you want a movie for the flight, get it right there in the airport.
Parental Controls: controlling access to safari, YouTube, etc. Now there is control for movies, tv shows and applications from the app store. Now your child can be limited to age appropriate material.
Tethering: Don't feel like paying for an internet card from your wireless provider? Tired of trying to find wireless hot spots that are free? With the 3GS you can now share your iPhone internet connection with your computer. It works via usb connection or wireless with bluetooth.
Safari: Some great improvements have been made to safari. Web pages now load and render twice as fast. In addition, http streaming audio and video is rendered according to connection speed so that media plays continually without break.
Languages: With the push of a single button users can switch languages. Hebrew and Greek are supported along with Thai and Arabic.
Find my iPhone: This is a service available to MobileMe customers on the new iPhone. If you lose or misplace your phone, you can login to MobileMe on any web browser and it will show you on the map where your phone is. You can send a message to the phone with your contact information and immediately work to retrieve it. If your phone is really stolen, you can send a remote wipe command and erase all your sensitive information. If you should get it back, sync it with you iTunes and restore all your information later.
Improved Battery Life: The battery now can sustain up to 9 hours of internet WiFi, 10 hours of video playback, 30 hours of audio, 12 hours of 2G talk and 5 hours of 3G talk.
Summary: The new 3GS is a major advancement to the iPhone.
Price: $199, 16GB, $299 32GB editions respectively. They come in either black or white.
Note: The previous iPhone 3G is now only $99 for the 8GB edition.
The phone is available worldwide, June 17th.Labels: iPhone, iPhone3GS, Technology