Upgrade makes great iPhone even better - USATODAY.com

In the nearly two years since the iPhone burst onto the scene, the competition for handheld computers has grown fierce.

Apple crushes all comers when it comes to third-party applications — the iPhone App Store has 50,000-plus applications and counting, all the more remarkable because it just opened in July. But though the iPhone broke ground with visual voice mail, smart sensors, multitouch display, true-to-life Web browser and more, it was a laggard in other respects. You couldn't record video, dial by voice (without a third-party app), send MMS messages, copy and paste text, or easily search across the device...