Barring the push functionality, the main features I was interested in was MMS support – not everyone I know has an iPhone to receive email photos, but can receive MMS messages – and the much-requested cut and paste functionality.

MMS messages now exist as part of the new Messages application – what was originally the SMS application. Sending an MMS message is as simple as a normal text message, with the addition of attaching a photo from your image library. The images appear in the iChat-style bubbles of the Messages application, and selecting the photo shows the full-size photo. It’s a great way of sending something a little more immediate than an email, and doesn’t seem like the functionality was just shoved in.

The Internet Massive kept blabbering on about cut-and-paste ever since the iPhone was released, and I never considered it to be a must have feature. I found it difficult to imagine times where I would need it. However, as I’ve been using the iPhone as a business phone there have been many times where it would have saved quite a bit of hassle. Apple’s implementation of cut-and-paste works very well, and the UI is as slick as one would expect: simply select where you want to start cutting, and select the area you want to copy:

Once you’ve copied the the text (or image) you repeat the process to paste. You can now also paste up to 5 images into an email.

Minor enhancements I’ve also found useful include multiple-speed scrubbing in the iPod application, Spotlight support for searching emails, and a much enhanced Application Store.

There’s a few other enhancements which lots of people were requesting, but I’ve not found so useful – landscape email support (I can type perfectly well in portrait mode), voice memos, and internet tethering. I’m also confused by the new Note synchronisation support: it only syncs when tethered to iTunes, but doesn’t sync over-the-air via MobileMe. This is a disappointing oversight, but overall the 3.0 OS release is decent. I’ve not been blown away by it so far, but hopefully once the push-enabled applications start getting approved I’ll be a little more impressed.