Apple’s iPhone 2.2 OS has long been expected to bring a host of new features to the iPhone and iPhone 3G. With new feature highlights like Google Maps Street View and a refreshed iPhone Safari UI, the iPhone 2.2 OS promises to take your iPhone to the next level.
And, wouldn’t you know it? Apple has launched the iPhone 2.2 OS, as expected, today!
The iPhone 2.2 OS brings with it these new features:
- Google Street View
– Street View takes you on a virtual walking tour: Navigate street-level photographs of places you’ve located in Maps. - Public Transit and Walking Directions
– Get walking directions, find public transit schedules, check fares, and estimate your travel time. - Podcasts
– Get access to millions of free podcasts on the iTunes Store via Wi-Fi or your cellular network. - Safari Improvements
– A new search-friendly user interface, better performance, and more stability make Safari even easier to use. - Home Screen Shortcut
– Take a shortcut from any Home screen back to your first Home screen by pressing the Home button. - Enhancements to Maps
– Display address of dropped pins
– Share location via email - Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls
- Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings
- Enhancements to Mail
– Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
– Improved formatting of wide HTML email - Improved sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages
Jailbreak fanatics looking forward to a future iPhone 3G software-based unlock solution would do well to take heed. Do NOT update your iPhone 3G to this latest iPhone 2.2 OS until the iPhone Dev Team releases their PwnageTool jailbreak solution for the iPhone 2.2 OS. Updating your iPhone 3G to iPhone 2.2 OS without using PwnageTool jailbreak procedures will flash your iPhone 3G with a newer baseband firmware that may not be compatible with a future unlock solution from the iPhone Dev Team. Sit tight, The Team has already jailbroken a beta version of the iPhone 2.2 OS, so it shouldn’t be too long before PwnageTool gets updated to handle the new firmware.