Phonegap/Cordova 3.0 has moved into a modular design starting with version 3.0. For example, to call the device.version API, you need to include the Device plug
I ran into the same issue.
In fact, the plugin system has not changed much.
I added the date picker plugin for Android just now :
Instead of adding plugins between plugins tags :
You will add a feature (what a revolution !) like this :
And that is it !
If you are not sure about the OS syntax for param name, you can add a default cordova plugin using a command as this one :
cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-device.git
More info there : http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.0.0/guide_cli_index.md.html#The%20Command-line%20Interface