New features uncovered in iPhone 2.2 beta
Version 2.2 beta 1 of the iPhone OS was seeded to developers a while back but we haven’t learned much about it since then. Well, until now of course. We’ll likely have to wait for the release version before all of the features are revealed but a few neat little upgrades have been uncovered that are definitely worth mentioning. First and foremost, no, there is no support for copy / paste or MMS. Apple, if you need our help updating the iPhone OS to support these extremely advanced technologies, just ask. We’ll have it done in a week. Ok, enough about what’s not included in the 2.2 beta and on to what is included:
- Support for Japanese emoji icons (try not to hurt yourself while jumping for joy)
- Google Street View support within Google Maps
- Ability to enable / disable auto-correction (!)
We’re not sure if the Google Street View support includes the very cool compass mode found in Android but our guess is going to be that it doesn’t. Well iPhone owners, you might not be able to copy a sentence and paste it somewhere else but at least you’ll soon be able to look at panoramic pictures of random points on a map and disable the horribly annoying auto-correct feature.
This is so exciting. Screw cut and paste - emoji is what everyone has been clamoring for. And street view! Wow!
I would feel better if there was no update than to think that this junk is what Apple engineers have been wasting their time on. These may be the only two features that NO ONE has asked for.
The only useful thing here is the ability to disable a feature. This is sad.
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this is so lame. cut/paste has been around since the stoneage and it’s not on this “game-changing” device. (throws iphone at wall) thanks and have a great day. No wonder my aapl stock is tanking.
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“Well iPhone owners, you might not be able to copy a sentence and paste it somewhere else but at least you’ll soon be able to look at panoramic pictures of random points on a map and disable… the only thing that makes a software keyboard usable.”
Fixed that for you.
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I’m so happy right now. I can’t wait to test out the emoji icons and the iPhone with the auto-correction feature of, (*gasp*).
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too* sorry…
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off too*** jeez I just can’t get it right today. What’s up with the moderation of comments BG?
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when are they going to add A2DP bluetooth…Apple get with 2008
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Hmmm, I dunno if I would turn off the auto correct or not. On one hand when it guesses wrong on something even though I’m typing it right it makes me mad to no end. But on the other hand (and especially when I’m drunk) it’s pretty damn good at guessing what I’m trying to say.
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I’ve got 2.2 loaded and don’t see street view yet, maybe they need to do a server switch? Also, based on about a week of usage, safari crashes much less often, but Maps seems to crash a whole lot more.
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Posting from 2.2
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