| iPhone OS 2.2 is launched, Dev Team says wait! |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Saturday, 22 November 2008 | |
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Apple’s iPhone OS 2.2 is here at last, and brings with it a stack of updates and a handful of new features, making the iPhone an ever better device. As long rumoured, the iPhone’s Maps application gets Google Street View, public transit and walking directions, the ability to display the address of dropped pins and share your location via email. A decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls is promised, as is improved stability and performance of Safari, improved sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages (for countries that have Visual Voicemail) and the ability to turn auto-correction on or off in the Keyboard Settings. Another feature lets you press the Home button from any home screen and go back to the very first, main “home” screen – especially handy when you’re on the last page of all your programs and need to swipe backwards several times to get back to the home screen. It’s certainly a feature I wished existed and am happy to see! Enhancements to Mail promise resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email and improved formatting of wide HTML email while podcasts are now available for download in the iPhone’s iTunes application over Wi-Fi and cellular 2G/3G networks. Combined with all the previous updates to the second generation of the iPhone OS, iPhone 2.2 is a must-have update for any iPhone 2G or 3G owner, and makes life difficult for those iPhone 3G owners still stuck on the original iPhone OS 2.0 who are waiting for the iPhone Dev Team to deliver an unofficial unlock. The iPhone Dev Team also advises that iPhone OS 2.2 delivers a baseband update to the iPhone 3G, which will make any future hacking that much harder, which is why the Dev Team is telling users not to update if they want to use any Dev Team unlock which is getting closer and closer. In a very recent blog posting, the Dev Team says they are “one step closer to the 3G soft unlock” and have posted a video of solid progress. They say they “have a clear path to follow, and “all” that remains is the implementation”, and explain that the “key 3G-unlock-related achievements we’ve made so far” include: 1. Unsigned code execution on 3G baseband 2. Reverting 01.45 baseband to previous versions 3. Patching of static text 4. Injection of AT routines 5. Injection of background tasks See the video at this link for more details. But now that iPhone OS 2.2 has arrived, the Dev Team has issued a blog posting to iPhone 3G users tempted to update... warning of reasons why they might not want to as yet. The news is good for unlocked iPhone 2G users, but not so good for 3G users as yet. Please read on to page 2 for details. |
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