iPhoneHellas: 2.2 coming November 21
According to iPhoneHellas.gr, version 2.2 of the iPhone firmware will be made available on November 21. The site says that the tipster is "reliable" but offered few details. Gizmodo calls the site "consistently reliable."
The tipster did say, however, that the update will not contain Greek keyboard support. Rumor has it that the update will contain:
- Street View, public transportation and walking directions for Maps
- An always-visible search field in Safari
- A rating request before you delete an app
- The ability to download podcasts directly to your handset
- Location sharing via email
- Support for Emoji icons
- An option to turn off auto-correction
There is still no word, of course, about the most requested and elusive of options: copy and paste. Gizmodo seems to think that -- if the release date is indeed on the 21st -- the major features of the update have been frozen. Looks like we'll have to wait until 2.3.
[Via O'Grady's PowerPage.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Blake said 10:25AM on 11-12-2008
"An always-visible search field in Safari" I sure hope that if this is a feature it can be turned off! The screen is small and there is already too much going on there!
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Matthew Hillyer said 10:22AM on 11-12-2008
looking forward to the auto correct turn off, I wanted to kill it just yesterday as it kept incorrectly correcting my email i was typing.
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Bruce Gerson said 10:23AM on 11-12-2008
More important to me would be the inclusion of ToDo and Notes syncing.
Bruce
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jsw said 10:25AM on 11-12-2008
What Bruce said. Without a way to get text files (Notes) and iCal To-Dos into the iPhone, it doesn't do something that my old PalmPilot does without a hitch.
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Mo said 10:25AM on 11-12-2008
Pretty sure the most 'elusive' of features has been the push API.
Copy & paste hasn't been elusive, in that it hasn't ever been present.
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Odog4ever said 1:35PM on 11-12-2008
And here I thought "true" turn-by-turn navigation was the most elusive feature.
Randy said 10:39AM on 11-12-2008
PLEASE Apple, just let me READ and compose email in LANDSCAPE MODE! I'm tired of scrolling an email back and forth to read it. How hard can this possibly be to implement???
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Wiz said 10:43AM on 11-12-2008
No Video Recorder and No Copy & Paste is a damn Conspiracy!!! To hell with em till they give us what should have been on the first phone....
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jens said 10:47AM on 11-12-2008
how about a real Bluetooth stack that can send files? Forward SMS? Send vcards? Sync without cable to iTunes? The iPhone is so cool but is missing these very basic features almost any phone under 150 dollars can do. Much more important than copy paste IMHO.
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solarpos said 10:50AM on 11-12-2008
I'll take auto correct off over c & p anyday, still both would be nice. Also, how about landscape view in ALL applications?
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Dalton said 10:58AM on 11-12-2008
If Apple wanted to put in copy and paste, they would have done it by now. It is like that "elusive" second mouse button that has been missing for 24 years. It ain't gonna happen.
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Mr. Tangent said 11:57AM on 11-12-2008
Umm... Apple's Mighty Mouse has two button functionality. Actually, I think the trackball thingy is also a button. And the new Macbook's have support for multi-"button"/multi-touch built-in. :)
Squid7085 said 2:24PM on 11-12-2008
But it was absent for the 24 years prior, despite people repeatedly asking for it. So at that run rate, we will have Copy and Paste on the iPhone in 24 years!
mike said 11:04AM on 11-12-2008
how about being able to text or email with the iPhone on the side. Which makes for a larger keyboard? Anyone else
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Jimbeam said 11:05AM on 11-12-2008
Just jailbreak it!! Then you can disable auto correct and type SMS and emails in landscape. You can also use MMS since your paying for it anyway with AT&T. You can even tether the phone without paying extra to AT&T!
Most of the things you people want are already there. just jailbreak it! Takes 15 minutes and is completely reversible!
Stop waiting for apple and just do it yourself!!
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the old man said 1:53PM on 11-12-2008
Yep.
Kevlar said 4:45PM on 11-12-2008
In my experience, Jailbreaking seriously undermines the stability of the phone. With just a default install, nothing installed except for SSH, Safari crashes on 1 out of every 3 pages I try to load.
Without Jailbreaking, I can go a week without Safari crashing. (a sad metric all the same)
colouroflight said 5:13PM on 11-12-2008
Amen. It's your device; you paid for it and you have the right to do whatever the hell you please with it, including extending its functionality when the manufacturer fails to.
$30 extra to tether is a particular insult.
Clark said 5:17PM on 11-12-2008
What application lets you write email while rotated?
Clark said 5:17PM on 11-12-2008
Jailbreaking doesn't affect my stability. Installing any of the theming apps on a jailbroken phone does however. But that's not a feature of jailbreaking itself.