Wow, I’m blogging from my iPhone with the new wordpress iPhone app. The interface is great. You can blog locally and publish later.

I think you can add images inline (find out after I publish this post). One major thing missing is the ability to link text. However without cut & paste, it is already a challenge to share links on the iPhone.

Updated:

• Added links via the old fashioned way
• Here is a video from Wordpress

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Yes, of course it is the Lightsaber app, what a completely useless but amazing creation. Can’t wait to get my hands on the new iPhone.

What others are saying about the App Store:

• VentureBeat
• TechCrunch
• Google Mobile Blog
• Mahalo

How, oh how do they cram so much tech into such a small package?

iPhone 3G Teardown - Get more Information Technology

Via: ifixit

Miss the Steve Jobs WWDC keynote yesterday? Get the 60 second roundup from the Mahalo Daily team.

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• Download Squad
• MacUser

The iPhone 3G has finally arrived. Instead of the warm welcome it’s predecessor received, blogs seem to be tearing apart the fine print instead. There is good, and of course bad. While the iPhone is one of the few Apple products to make me a fanboy, I can’t help but feel a bit underwhelmed here. I probably just let the usual round of dream rumors get to me. When they failed to materialize, what can you expect. Never the less, lets roundup some of the features.

3G Support

Pretty much a given, and for me the only thing I needed to make the upgrade. The on stage speed test was hilarious, I think the EDGE page took almost a minute to load.

Games

Never a huge mobile gamer myself but Enigmo and Super Monkey Ball look like fun. Glad to see more applications that make use of an accelerometer.

MobileMe

A much needed upgrade for .Mac however not for me. I’m already doing most of the features of MobileMe and don’t want to be tied to a Apple service.

Whats Missing?

Video chat, video period, copy/paste and levitation on command. Version 3 perhaps?

Tracking the Storm

Naturally the WWDC dominated the echo chamber news today. Twitter seems to have weathered the storm pretty well. MG Siegler created a FriendFeed room and manged to get over a 100 folks talking and sharing content about the event. Finally my WWDC dashboard clocked in about 2000 visitors by the end of the day.

Watching the river flow today, I couldn’t help but get some interesting ideas for filtering it into something manageable. I’m drawn to products like Techmeme and of course Mahalo to solve this problem. As information gets further saturated online we need ways to break it down.

Update:

C.K. asks over on his blog

To iPhone 3G or not to 3G: that is the question.
Whether ’tis nobler after July 11th to suffer
The contracts and entrapments of outrageous carriers,
Or to take arms against locked platforms,
And by jailbreaking end them?

Are you nerdy enough to recognize the above device? It’s the “pad” from Star Trek of course. To me, and perhaps a few other fans out there the iPhone represents a step closer to this little piece of Hollywood magic. Insanely networked, voice activated and adaptive to any need this device is the holy grail of bright handed goodness. So as we know version 2 of the iPhone is just around the corner, what new features and delights will it hold? I thought it would be fun if a few bloggers posted their wish lists. Here is mine:

• 3G: This is a must at this point and from what it appears going to be a reality. The EDGE network is painfully slow and its time for us “catch up” with the rest of the world.
• Better Camera: This also appears to be included according to rumors. The current camera is terrible in most cases unless the conditions are perfect.
• Video Recording: I want to capture small videos from my phone, doesnt even have to be steller quality. If I could use it with a service like Qik I’d be in love.
• Cut and Paste: Can’t think of how many times this would come in handy for email/web usage. When the original version shipped somone made this really nice proof of concept video:
  

• More than 8 Browser Tabs: I’m sick of seeing that “You Have to Many Windows Open” message. What can I say, Firefox has spoiled me. I want to have at least 20 tabs open at any given time.
• Tactical Feedback: For all you blackberry users who like to whine “I need to feel the keys!”. This alone would bring in droves of new users who just aren’t ready to let go of their archaic wittle thumb keyboard.

So those are my simple requests, what are yours? Blog about and link back here. Lets see if we can get a little meme going on it.