New features for iPhone OS 3.0

The good people over at The iPhone Blog noted the major improvements to the iPhone OS. Here are some of them:

• System-wide Copy and Paste (text and photos)
• MMS for photos, vcards, audio
• SMS forwarding
• Landscape keyboard in major apps
• System-wide Spotlight Search
• App Store subscriptions (i.e. subscribe to magazine apps)
• In App purchases (i.e. buy a weapon in a FPS)
• Turn-by-Turn GPS Navigation in App Store (bring your own maps!)
• Push Notification Service for badges, alerts messages, sounds
• Peer-2-peer service using Bonjour and Bluetooth for interaction and data exchange
• Access to Dock port for Apps to work with accessories
• Voice memos
• CalDAV support for on-device calendar subscriptions
• Improved Stocks widget, landscape mode for details
• Stereo Bluetooth (A2DP)
• iTunes account creation
• Encrypted profiles
• Call log
• Shake to shuffle music (like iPod nano)
• VPN on-demand
• Proxy Support
• Notes sync