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Engadget plays with iPhone 2.0

by Mike Schramm Mar 19th 2008 at 9:00AM


Our lucky friends at Engadget somehow got to play with the iPhone 1.2/2.0 beta (no word on if they'll send it along to Erica anytime soon), and they confirmed a lot of things we'd guessed at previously.

Exchange support works as smoothly as Scott and Mike had hoped, but there's still no two-pane Mail client. The multiple mail message selection works, however, and we finally found out why the Calculator button has changed -- apparently there are a ton of new features in there, including a sideways scientific calcalculator. There are a number of other fun features and improvements as well, although the main event, the App Store, only functions enough to give an error that it can't connect.

June can't come any faster, as far as we're concerned. Bring on the iPhone version 2.0!

Gallery: iPhone firmware 2.0 hands-on



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Allen Jerabeck

MMS MESSAGES!!!!!!!

March 22 2008 at 12:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kevin Rochowski

Don't know if anyone's already asked this, but does the 2.0 firmware support landscape mode texting? I'd love to be able to use the keyboard that way around (bit of a big thumbed person!)

March 20 2008 at 9:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sam

What about Exchange Shared contacts? Can you access a Public Folder of contacts too?

March 19 2008 at 1:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jeffrey Kirk

Can they at least give us a simple copy and paste feature?! Geez, this should have been available from the very beginning!

March 19 2008 at 11:49 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jason

Is Cisco VPN supported?

March 19 2008 at 11:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rob

So it looks like that rumored contacts search isn't there?

March 19 2008 at 11:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
FoundInTheFlood

Same procedure as every year : 802.1 X support?

March 19 2008 at 11:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Graymalkin

Still no to do-list that would sync with Outlook/Exchange tasks. :-(

March 19 2008 at 10:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
zbirdboy

do the parental controls allow for some kind of configuring like passwords, porn filters, ect., or is it just a straight on/off switch that completely disables the program. if the latter's the case, that kind of sucks. i plan on getting an ipod touch, but if the parental controls are just on off switches, i looks like all mi getting is a glorified ipod.

March 19 2008 at 10:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Eric Matisoff

I wonder if there will be a hardware update to the iPhone in June to coincide with this release... It's gonna be tough to wait for June to find out.

March 19 2008 at 10:19 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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