Apple iPhone 2.0 firmware available in early July, many improvements
June 9, 2008 | Filed under Cell Phone Information, Cell Phones
We are hearing direct from the WWDC that the Apple iPhone 2.0 firmware will be available in early July, and there are many improvements. It will be super easy to download docs and look at them on your iPhone. They have added bulk delete and move, that’s very handy.
You will have the ability to save images you might get in an email, tap on them and save them to your library. This is something that I have personally wanted since the day I bought my iPhone. The calc will have a scientific mode and they have also added parental controls to the iPhone 2.0 firmware, I can imagine some of the younger iPhone owners not being happy about that one.
This next firmware update is going to be great and it will include many new features, these include Full iWork document support (Pages, Numbers, and of course, Keynote), also there will be a contact search (Type in a few chars, instantly find who you’re looking for), another feature will be support for MS Office and that includes applications like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Firmware 2.0 will also see the iPhone get many more languages; some of the ones they are most excited about include two forms of entry for Chinese (simplified and traditional) and two forms of entry for Japanese. This highlights why it’s good not to have plastic keys for your iPhone.
The Apple iPhone will move to another level with these and other features added to the next firmware and it will be released in early July. It’s free as normal for iPhone owners, but iPod touch owners will have to pay $9.95.
Source: Read
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Using the Apple developer kit, we’ve been hard at work developing impressive technology that make the iPhones capabilities even more powerful. Voice search. Song search and selection. At the touch of a button and simply by saying the word. Over the next few days – as the excitement mounts for the WWDC – we’ll be sharing more and more details here on our blog. For now though, I think all of us should sit back, relax and enjoy the show.
Of course, we believe the most powerful use of speech would be running on the iPhone itself (vs a remote server) and made available to the developer community via iPhone’s SDK APIs.
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