iPhone 2.0 adds iWork/Office, dates App Store
updated 02:10 pm EDT, Mon June 9, 2008
iPhone 2.0 New Features
Apple today announced several new features to its iPhone 2.0 software as part of its presentation at the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. The firmware now adds full iWork and Office document support, allowing documents from either productivity suite to be read from the phone. Users can also mass-delete e-mail, save images, use a scientific calculator when rotating the iPhone, apply parental controls, and new language support.
The App Store will be available at the same time and will allow cellular downloads of apps that consume 10MB or less of space; larger applications will either be downloaded throuugh Wi-Fi or from a computer using iTunes. Enterprise owners can separately authorize sets of iPhones and create apps that run only on those phones. Apps can be distributed solely to those users, Apple says.
Apple will also allow a new local networking feature, named "ad hoc," that allows as many as 100 iPhones to be mailed or posted apps that sync through iTunes. This is meant to encourage iPhone development.
The feature will be availble in early July for free on all iPhones, and will cost $10 as an update to the iPod touch.
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Another update...
Another $$$ for those poor touch owners.
I wonder if you have an original touch, and never got the "5 'new' apps" whether this will come with that support or not.