Some confirmed iPhone Firmware 2.2 changes

It seems that Apple is taking further care in hiding new iPhone features in their beta releases, after numeroud leaks before the 2.1 firmware release.

iPhone SDK

The most recent firmware beta seeded to developers listed “compatibility testing” in its release notes as the only change, and everyone knew there had to be more to it than that.

We’ve since heard of a couple of new features buried within the iPhone 2.2 beta that have been revealed and confirmed by testers. Apple has apparently made underlying changes to the iPhone’s frameworks that are not yet exposed to the end user. These findings include:

Support for Japanese emoji icons — a popular feature for Japanese phones. The lack of emoji support has been blamed as part of the reason for slow iPhone sales in Japan, and this feature will address that oversight.

Full Support for Google Street View for the Google Maps application. Street View allows users to view panoramic street level photographs in select cities within the Google Maps application. The feature was recently shown on Google’s Android phone, and was probably added to help it compete with Google’s phone.

The ability to disable the phone’s keyboard auto-correction.

We’ll report more as we hear more. No release date has been set for the firmware’s release.

Posted on Oct 7th, 2008 by Philip King in Software | 1 Comment

One Comment to “Some confirmed iPhone Firmware 2.2 changes”

on 16 Nov 2008 at 1:25 pm1Adrian

one thing that should be included is Bluetooth support other than headsets. I would like to connect to my laptop st .

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