RussianiPhone.ru claims that they have seen iPhone 2.2.1 Beta 1 release candidate, and that it implements Push notifications as well as over-the-air MobileMe syncing with Notes support.

As proof they’ve posted a screenshot showing the Notes and Calendar applications with a update badges displayed (though this is relatively easy to fake). But it does bring up the possibility that Apple is finally listening to users who have been asking for this for awhile now.
Several sites have posted that they can’t verify these claims at this time. Apple has not yet seeded iPhone 2.2.1 Beta 1 to developers, so if RussianiPhone.ru does have a copy, they obtained it outside of any “official” public distribution.
While Apple
Developers and users have been anxiously awaiting the implementation of this new feature. In the current iPhone firmware, applications are not allowed to run any background tasks. As a result, an application like a Instant Messaging application would be unable to notify the user that a new message had arrived. Push notifications would provide the tools to trigger these alerts, and allow the running of things like IM type programs along with other things at the same time. If it is included, this could be a huge evolution in the usability of the iPhone.
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I’m just waiting for an update that will make my damn iphone connect to my car’s blue tooth system. Nice that I have a $400 phone and a $40,000 car and I can’t use the two the way they are supposed to be used right? This is ridiculous!! How about sending pictures with text?? My piece of crap RAZR could do that!!
@neil, all i can say is w0rd. i know exactly what yo mean man.
Well I only paid 300 for my phone, I walk everywhere, and I’m perfectly fine with sending my pictures for free instead of paying for media texting. But I can understand. kind of.
no whats pissin me off is how you cant listen to music over bluetooth
i agree with the music over bluetooth and what pisses me off the most is trying to receive picture texts and can’t. I have to go to a website and type a password. that’s bull.
I’m waiting for a camera to shoot videos with.. Then I will bow to the iPhone..
I Have sony bluetooth wireless earphones that play music.
Has a tiny A2DP reciever that plugs into the bottom.
Paid £39.09, Bargain! Sound is great and can be used to make and recieve calls!
neil, you can “kinda” picture message on an iphone. you have to send the picture via email to the 10 didgit telephone number at mms.att.net (ex: 5125125122@mms.att.net). this is for att network only but will forward your email to an att server that will convert it to a pic message and send it to the telephone number via txt. the reciever can then go in and reply to that message as a pic or txt message and it will come back to your email via that same server. piece of cake. also your phone will not link via bluetooth to your car to play music b/c it is not A2DP which is the type of bluetooth required to transfer data, images and mp3’s, so you wont be able to send your music to your car’s strereo but you should already able to talk on your phone handsfree via your bluetooth speakers in your cars radio.
i like my iphone, but the pic txt message thing sucks bawls, and it would be nice for a video recorder.
you all need to jailbreak your iphones! i did the other day, completely safe, use iPwn, it will walk u through everything. now i can send mms easily, have a digital and video camera on the phone, can customise absolutely everything and have some awesome free snes games on there too!
I have the Motorola S9 headset and it works just fine with the bluetooth on my IPhone.
John said “also your phone will not link via bluetooth to your car to play music b/c it is not A2DP which is the type of bluetooth required to transfer data”… which is only 1/2 true. The hardware is capable, but 2 out of the 25 BT ‘profiles’ are enable at the OS level.
My iPhone just updated to 2.2.1 when i connected it to iTunes
ok so i updated to the 2.2.1 software i dont notice shi? nothing wow 4 months in the making and all they can do is fix a safari bug WTF you know im embarrsed to tell people who send me pic or video messages i cant get them why u ask? oh i have a iphone 3g! wtf steve jobs and all of apple know everyone is pissed about these 2 things alone and they havent done anything in 2 yrs i pretty much can bet there gonna put it on the next new iphone as a selling point meanwhile every god damn phone even free phones can do things that a 400 dollar phone can i mean wtf apple dosnt listen to anything we want u think after the first gen iphone they woulda gave us what most of us wanted sms and a real deal navagation that everyone else now is putting out blackberrys and all .even the g1 phone we made fun of has real gps.oh and so does that 50 dollar phone att offers with real likve gps but not APPLE .this is one of the reasons i would neve buy a mac
to text a pic to another servers phone you just need there phones pix emal addy. example 16098546658@vzw.pix and you can email them a pic. they recive it as an mms text mesage. I just have them email a pic to me from there phone to get there phones email addy. then they can email pix to you, and you can email them back in real time. no passwords or crappy att web pages that never load or allow you to save you pic.
this phone rocks in so many ways but come on pic text how f-in hard is that really. I shouldn’t have to go to another website. oh well I am sure we are gunna get screwed in the end. no update will fix it we will have to buy a new phone. bet ya
i love the iphone…. there will never be an iphone killer other than another iphone like the 3G…. i had my iphone since 2007 and its still running like new… im just waiting for the 32gig…
Dude…i had a 3G razr and it kicked ass. I bought the “revolutionary” iPhone like 1.5yrs ago…no warranty, blows up. sound can mess up. no pics, no vid…youtube plays about half the movies…etc etc.
Apple is garbage
All I can say is that all of you are spoiled! If you want another phone then go out and buy one. The only issue I have is the lack of push to my subfolders in email which is a small issue in comparison. Remember when phones had cord and were attached to the wall? Quit complaining.
hi all, you can send media messages, AND, receive them, but you have to use 2 applications, swirly mms for sending, and mms from app store, for receiving.
I’m frustrated with not being able to send picture messages, not being able to record video, not being able to forward text messages, there being no copy/paste in texting/notes/etc, not being able to create different albums in photos without downloading them from your computer, not being able to have certain text message sounds for certain people, not having a landscape keyboard for texting, not being able to delete default aps that I don’t want like stocks/weather, and the mail not automatically updating itself rather than having to open it up to know you got an email. Also, it would be nice to be able to apply different effects to your pictures.
It’s funny because my old Samsung Sync that cost a whole lot less than the iPhone can do almost all of the things I listed. These things are simple. Almost every phone I’ve seen can do these easy things…
I know there are probably aps/jailbreaking that allow for these things to be possible, but it would be nice for it to be default, like most phones.