iPhone 2.2 beta 2 seeded to developers
Look, we don’t want to get into it this time. Apple seeded new firmware to developers, it doesn’t do any of the things we all want it to do, end of story. Well, almost end of story. Version 2.2 beta 2 of the iPhone firmware might not let you copy / paste, type an email in landscape mode, receive an image or video via MMS or receive push notifications for third party apps… But you can look around Google Maps in street view now! Woo hoo! How useful a feature - we’re so glad Cupertino is so focused on it as opposed to, say, implementing a system that will actually make third-party apps a tad useful. Kudos fellas. Giving iPhone users the ability to look around at buildings and trees from random points around the country is far more important than the rest of the features we’re waiting for. Well, at least there’s also walking and public transportation directions included in this version. Super, can’t wait.
Tags: 2.2, Apple, beta, firmware, google, iPhone, Maps, Software
supris suprise why dose this not shock me? keep dreaming guys th day tha apple gives you features you want is the day the Arizona cardnals win the super bowl. and the iseep turns yet again
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At least it will knock a couple of items off of this list: http://pleasefixtheiphone.com/problems/index/ .
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Okay, seriously…
How about cut/paste, MMS/Video, and landscape typing for texts/email. Those are the only things that really is holding the iPhone back.
STREET VIEW!?!?!? WHO THE HELL CARES when you cant even send MMS to friends? As if Im gonna ask all my friends for their email addresses!?!?
2.2 needs to focus on REAL features…not Google Features, let the G1 do that.
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an the koolaide turns sour an wears off
guys it’ won’t com thtas what ive beeen trying to tell ya you might as well get that iphone bootcamp an boot into winmo to do all that stuff
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Is it not that hard to understand that it is probably not APPLE developers implementing this feature but GOOGLE developers??
Yes, there are things Apple needs to work on, but ripping them for focusing on this over other priorities, when they likely had little to no involvement with it is bordering retarded.
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Apple’s not the one that’s adding the features. They’re just adding the front end UI. Google is the one adding in all the back end features. Don’t you guys notice the trend that just after Google announces a feature (Cell phone triangulation, Street View, Public Transportation), Apple gets it in the very next firmware. It’s because all they have to do is add the buttons.
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Jesus thats gay. Copy and Paste will come on the next iPhone. iPhone CP..
Jobs will find a way to turn Copy and Paste into a “revolutionary” and “game changing” that will end up having its own Core OS to run the function.
So get your wallets out fellas Q3 next year, iPhone CP3GOH!!!!!
Oh, and eff MMS. Who the hell cares about shitty little video clips. You have a smart phone, use it. If others dont have a smartphone, eff those cheap basterds. Just sayin…
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OK, I’ll gladly take streetview, since it’s kinda cool and they need to compete with the G1, of course. But, I would rather have (among the things listed above), a good camera with video recording and a xenon flash, loud stereo speakers, a good speakerphone that you can actually use, a real physical shutter button for the camera, more and better factory ringtones that don’t sound goofy, and last but not least—a bright as the sun L.E.D. indicator light with multiple colors and the ability to assign the different colors to different alerts any way we want to!!! This would be extremely beneficial to the iphone, since you can hardly hear the alerts as it is now, and you won’t know if you missed an alert until you wake it up and check….dumb. Who’s with me?
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I love how they just outsold RIM’s entire line of products for a quarter, yet you’re complaining about the features people are “waiting” for. They sold nearly one iPhone PER SECOND for the period between July 11 and September 30 (Number of iPhones sold: 6,892,000; number of seconds during the same period: 7,084,800). The numbers don’t lie. Copy-and-past is meaningless. MMS messaging is virtually meaningless (especially with e-mail), unless you’re below the age of 25 and underemployed like most of the guys that read gadget blogs. Push notification is coming, but again, look at the numbers. . .its absence has yet to affect sales in a significant way. So if you’re waiting for copy-and-paste, return the iPhone and get a Blackberry. Sure, it won’t do 80% of what the iPhone can do and has virtually no 3P apps, but it’s got that copy-and-paste! (It also has that annoying light that flashes in your face anytime you look at it. . .what a nice touch).
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For what its worth as far as MMS goes …I activate iPhones all day in an AT&T store and can tell you first hand that when we activate them, we have to enable “MMS OPT-OUT”. That way you get that little message when some one sends you a pic that tells you to view it at viewmymessage.com. The point I’m trying to get accross here, is that I really doubt that the iPhone will ever be able to do MMS. For the simple reason that every single customer who wants MMS would have to come into a store or call customer care to have MMS provisioned. I don’t think ATT wants that bad press of being such a pain.
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Don’t worry the BB Storm will be here in no time and you, like me can kick the ICRAP to the curb and get a device that will do all the things ICRAP owners wish theirs would do!
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This is obviously nothing more than Apple making a move to keep consumers away from the T-Mobile G1 and Android in general.
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LOL! I agree with your MMS statements.
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The iPhone is great at what it does - look pretty and play media. It is NOT a serious smartphone a la BlackBerry, Nokia or HTC. People who expect it to be are looking in the wrong place.
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Wow! Am I the only one that thinks that this is not a coincidence? Google’s Android G1 phone just released this week, and we can all agree that its Google Maps features kicks the iPhone’s behind. This added feature for FW 2.2 is Cuppertino trying to stay in the game. This is a rare example of Apple doing the following, and not the leading. Jobs, thank you for this new feature, but…WHERE ARE THE ONES THAT WE REALLY CARE ABOUT!!!
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I hear ya…but keep dreaming. Unfortunately, Apple thinks they are “game changers” and that we don’t need MMS in the iPhone nor we need to record video from it. Thankfully, most of Jobs’ screw ups with the iPhone have been fixed by many talented developers out there that took it upon themselves to straighten out this “bad apple”. That’s why if any iPhone owner like myself wants to have a phone that can compete with all ther other phones out in the market right now, you have to jailbreak that overpriced contraption and add all these features via Cydia or Installer. Jailbreaking the iPhone and adding all these tremendous apps that Apple never even dreamed of is what really made the iPhone a success. Steve Jobs, you should really be on your knees “thanking” all those 3rd party apps developers out there that made your brick phone on of the most sought after gadgets of the decade.
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Am I the only one who also finds it CRAZY that Apple doesn’t allow SEARCH / SPOTLIGHT capability on iPhone…specifically in CALENDARS?!
What’s wrong with them?
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migfig I totally agree with you about that…If it was’nt for third party apps the iphone would be nothing and pretty boring and luckly theres so many people out there with the iphone that there are so many people developing the applications the greedy steve jobs didnt think iphone users needed thus making the phone a success.
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i guess i’m the only one who has never had a problem with the iphone, is happy with the features and service it provides and looks forward to things like this.
smh.
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Street view?!?!
Give us TOMTOM !
Damn!
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LOL. The iPhone OUTSOLD Blackberry without MMS and copy/paste. Anti-apple fanboys need to get real. No one uses MMS besides 12 year olds. I have a windows mobile phone and NEVER use copy/paste. Get your head of out of your collective a$$es.
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Seems more like a google update than an apple update.
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Next update I want A2DP
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Am I wrong to think that the iPhone should master the basics before focusing on more bells and whistles? My wish list: landscape keyboard in all Apple made apps, communication between Apple apps (why have a contact section for birthdays if this data won’t post to the calendar???) (if I place a location for a calendar event, wouldn’t it be nice to link that location to the map??), cut and paste ( I know I’m beating a dead dog here, but it would be nice to drop all this text into an email and send it to someone that might make a difference), I’d like for safari to stop crashing, I’d like to look at my call list and be able to tell incoming calls from outgoing calls, I’d like to be able to customize MY iPhone without jailbreaking it, I think that’s about it for now. Is it wrong to want these basic things from the coolest phone on the market?
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F.A.
Read , with out the 3rd party aps the ICRAP would be nothing, some people use MMS with their jobs, such as take a picture and send it to a client, ect.. that is the benefit, and no one really cares what YOU do with your phone, so hush!
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