Fun day for iPhone owners. Kinda like opening one present on xmas eve. I don’t know who leaked the update that was due tomorrow, but for those of us who are keeping our old and obsolete doorstop phones, it’s a smart move to keep us happy while we see all those shiny new iPhones being bandied around tomorrow.

So far I’ve only downloaded the free apps, but even then I’m impressed. The Jott for iPhone takes what I’ve been missing with the iPhone - namely voicenotes - and ratchets it up with transcriptions in text to use with other list features. My only worry here is that my next million-dollar idea will be on the Jott grid somewhere… hmm.

The next thing I’ve noticed is that the web works faster (pre 3G, mind you) within the apps than it does in the Safari browser. Makes perfect sense because all the heavy graphics and formatting are now local and it only needs to fetch data. I’m not sure, but I’m guessing that Twitterific will win this round against Hahlo and Socialthing! until the latter two get apps available. Plus, Twitterific has raised the bar with some features in the app. Very nice.

If this was orchestrated by Apple (and I can’t believe it wasn’t) to keep old customers happy, mission accomplished. I know I’ll be satisfied with my new apps while watching the frenzy tomorrow.