Apple has posted a detailed Guided Tour, which gives a nice overview of many of the iPhone's features. This shows things which haven't been publicized before, such as the Mail settings that are available, how YouTube works (hint: just like it does on AppleTV), and how to enable/disable airplane mode. Another very cool new piece of information is that the iPhone will be able to display Word and Excel documents, not just the standard Text, PDF, etc.

Check it out:

I'm at WWDC all week, getting my dose of IT management for the Mac environment. Other than the keynote, the rest of the week is all NDA, so I won't be able to post anything else. Other IW folks (Ephraim Schwartz and Tom Yager) will have more coverage for non-NDA interviews and discussions. Check out the InfoWorld WWDC 07 Special Report and Tom Yager's Enterprise Mac blog for more coverage.

My thoughts on the keynote: Not a huge surprise. Apple fashions itself as primarily a hardware company, but one that happens to make great software. They've had a huge amount of success with iTunes on Windows, so bringing Safari to the Windows platform isn't a big surprise. I think it will tie in nicely with the Safari integration on the iPhone, so that Windows web developers can build their AJAXified apps to target the iPhone more easily.

I was expecting something more about .Mac, honestly, beyond the connections between Macs through it. That is a cool sounding feature, which would help me support my family's Macs and make it easier to access things that I have on my Mac Pro in the office while I'm mobile. But what I really want to see is Google handling the .Mac experience, tying in the various excellent Google apps with the slick .Mac integration.

I'm really wondering why they didn't show off something like Google Reader from the iPhone. The basic RSS support that is built in to Safari can't compare with GReader, and it would really bring home the zooming and flexibility that is built in to the iPhone.

Ah well - time to grab my Developer Preview of Leopard and clam up about things for the rest of the week. =)

As Mac excitement grows pre-WWDC, Parallels has released the full 3.0 version of their excellent virtualization software. We'll have a full review up soon, but for now here are some highlights:

• SmartSelect - Allows for virtual OS apps to be set as the default type for a specific filetype. For instance, have Word for Windows open when you double-click a .doc file.
  
• Snapshots - Like the name says, it makes snapshots of your virtual environment, so that you can back out of changes (or busted Windows patches). This will also protect you from having to reinstall XP from scratch when you get infected.
  
• VM Sentry - Layer of protection between the real and virtual OS, keeping Windows issues from affecting your OS X environment
  
• Accelerated 3D - We'll have to see how well this will handle newer 3D Windows games. This is one of the last issues that is keeping many users from moving to the Mac. 3D is also one of the few real reasons for using BootCamp to boot your Mac into XP directly.
  
• Parallels Explorer - Browse your Windows drive without firing up the full version of Parallels
  
• Other enhancements, such as Vista Boot Camp support, Transporter improvements, etc.