Good Morning Hong Kong, iPhone 3.0 is Here!

We’ve been waiting for this JesusPhone software upgrade for a long time!

If you waited up last night then you were one of the first in Hong Kong to get the new iPhone OS 3.0 from Apple, if you didn’t then all you want to do is start up iTunes and plug your iPhone in and get going.

We were going to do a piece-by-piece overview of the new OS, but iLounge already did a great job:

Search:

A tiny magnifying glass option at the bottom of the screen clues you in to a new screen that sits off to the left of the main page: swipe over to it and you activate Spotlight, a feature that can search your iPhone’s database—everything from e-mail headers to apps to iPod media—for words you enter into a search field.

MMS:

On MMS-capable networks, Messages also displays a camera button that enables users to choose images to include along with the text. Video from the iPhone 3G S will reportedly be able to be sent over networks as well, subject to strict limitations on the size of the files.

Cut, Copy and Paste:

Once text has been highlighted, little blue pins appear on the left and right of the selection area, waiting to be dragged to the appropriate left and right positions; a zoomed-in view appears under your finger to help fine-tune the their placement. On web pages, the text selection box has top and bottom points as well, enabling you to resize the selection area in some cases to grab more or less formatted text.

Read more here and we’ll be following up with new tips and tricks throughout the next few weeks for sure. If you are not on 3 in Hong Kong you may want to read this post on how to make sure your Smartone-Vodafone account can send and receive MMS.