# iPhone 3.0 countdown. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 5, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-3-0-countdown/498757 "2009-06-05T00:43:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-3-0-countdown/498757/81 "2009-06-18T00:10:27Z")
Downloading it now! ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-3-0-countdown/498757/82 "2009-06-18T00:26:22Z")
Got it about 7 hours ago. 1st Gen iPhone. Pain free. Lotsa little neat things (check out the new buttons while playing back podcasts.) ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-3-0-countdown/498757/83 "2009-06-18T01:04:45Z")
I’m a little disappointed in the updated Bluetooth functioning. The phone still won’t push my phonebook to my car. It also won’t connect to the ipod player in my car, but I suspect that is an issue on the car’s end. I would expect the phone to be able to push my phone book though. The car sits waiting for the phone to initiate the download. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-3-0-countdown/498757/84 "2009-06-18T02:19:50Z")
I predict you’ll be waiting a bit. I think the bluetooth improvements were limited to being able to stream stereo audio to bluetooth devices. On an up note, it’ll drop the audio of you get a call. I dunno if it extends to voice dialing, but I think _that_’s a 3gs feature. Your iphone will also not perform dialysis or make toast. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-3-0-countdown/498757/85 "2009-06-18T02:34:02Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > I predict you’ll be waiting a bit. > > Your iphone will also not perform dialysis or make toast. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that the iPhone should be able to initiate the transfer of the phone book to a Bluetooth enabled vehicle that has the capability of storing the information on a harddrive. There are certainly plenty of other less advanced phones that can perform this task. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-3-0-countdown/498757/86 "2009-06-18T03:07:45Z")
> [@USCDiver](#): > > I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think that the iPhone should be able to initiate the transfer of the phone book to a Bluetooth enabled vehicle that has the capability of storing the information on a harddrive. There are certainly plenty of other less advanced phones that can perform this task. And that’s the problem. Just because it’s do-able, doesn’t mean they should. I’ve got a bluetooth GPS receiver, why wouldn’t they program the iPhone to use it? There are no less than 28 bluetooth profiles. ([List of Bluetooth profiles - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_profile)) Apple has been pretty sluggish in implementing most of them. Previous to the current version hardware, they left out voice dialing because it _sucks_. It’s error prone or requires training, so they left it out as ahalf-baked feature that wouldn’t work well. I can only hope it works well with the current phone. Likewise, I could see them leaving out address book functionality for a number of non-obvious reasons, not the least of which being: it didn’t work well. (Synchronization with exchange, do you include the home, mobile, beeper, but not fax numbers? How do you interface with the other end so that it works well.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-3-0-countdown/498757.md?page=4)