Ryan James O'Sullivan

The new version of Apple’s iOS (the new name for the iPad/iPhone/iPod operating system) went live this afternoon and I rushed home to get it… sadly I am now looking at “Backing up…” screen and have been for almost an hour now…

It seems like this is not an uncommon issue so I’m just patiently waiting taking in as many reviews and bits and pieces of info as I can on the upgrade while I wait.

Things I’m looking most forward to:

• Folders – some argue this should have been a day one feature of the post-app era iPhones (and I agree to an extent) but I’m just glad it is here now
• Spell checking through out the OS – I type at about 140 or so WPM and I can assure you I type faster than I think most of the time.  The result of this has always been a trade off in the spelling department
• Upgraded Mail Client – Unified inbox anyone?
• Apparently the upgrade has a tonne of polish and who would turn down some polish?

Now all I need to do is hope this actually works… The upgrade is going.so.slowwwww

Today at WWDC Steve Job’s announced that 22 countries would be getting the new 3G iPhone come July 11th. I frantically hit rogers.com (who I already knew was getting the iPhone) and apple.ca to see if Canada was one of the lucky countries. They were a bit behind the ball but eventually apple.ca was updated and confirmed it!

The official announcement reads:

Rogers Communications and Apple® today announced that the highly anticipated iPhone™ 3G will be available in Canada on July 11. iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast* as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software which includes support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync and runs the hundreds of third party applications already built with the recently released iPhone SDK.

All I can say is I am super excited! I am trying to convince Tammy to get us both one of these and drop our home phone service. Who needs it anyway! Bring on July!