Apple seemed to have a few problems last night due to the mass amount of people trying to download the new software update for the iPhone. I was one of the lucky ones to get in early and had a good test run.

I have to say that I'm a bit in limbo on my thoughts on the update - partly impressed, partly disappointed. There were a few features that I thought were missing from the original 2 generations of the iPhone such as the Sat Nav opportunities, copy and paste, forward contact, and more functionality that varied in size and spec. Some of these have been dealt with, others have not.

For example,  I was very impressed by the full iPhone search facility. Especially useful as the song/artist/album name sometimes gets mixed up in iTunes and emails can be tough to search, so I could see a real benefit with this. The implementation was good, although placing it infront of the first screen did seem like a bolt on, but I can overlook that due to the way it works. 

The copy and paste seems to work really well and is quite intuitive to get to grips with, and the ease of forwarding a contact is very simple - however, there is still no option to send via text message.

Despite some nice features (and I was maybe naive to think this), but I was expecting the voice control and video software to be included in this update... this was a big disappointment for me. I was also unsure why there was so much time invested into the Voice memo as there are free apps available that do this, and I have to say, do it better than the standard one supplied by Apple.

There are a few functions I am yet to see such as the YouTube sign in, etc but as with all iPhone features, I'm sure that I will cross this in time. Nevertheless, I would recommend the download despite a couple of bugs in layout as all in all, I think it it is a good step forward. Whether I can see the benefit in the iPhone 3GS yet remains to be seen, but if I decide to upgrade I will be sure to keep you posted.