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iPhone 2.1 firmware to have copy/paste, better GPS?

updated 09:40 am EDT, Fri July 25, 2008

iPhone 2.1 firmware specs?

Apple may already be laying the groundwork for several important updates in the next major iteration of iPhone firmware, according to multiple sources. One notes that in exploring the Localizable.strings entry under English.lproj in the current iPhone WebKit framework, there are entries for several commands the firmware does not currently support, including cutting, copying and pasting. Apple has expressed interest in adding the feature, but has not set a timeframe.

The firmware also contains a reference to a "mobile radio" function, which could indicate that Apple hopes to support native Internet radio, instead of through third-party apps.

Another source claims to have obtained a beta of v2.1 firmware, said to be in distribution for developers only. Among the features in this are alleged to be expanded Core Location items, including means for gauging the direction a person is headed, and their velocity. In theory, this could allow turn-by-turn GPS navigation. The update also appears to have an early implementation of Apple's background push notification, a means of imitating background processes without the corresponding battery drain or decline in CPU performance. Apple has said that full support for push notification will only arrive in September however, which could suggest when v2.1 will be delivered via iTunes.

In the meantime Apple is believed to be preparing a v2.0.1 update, addressing bugs only.

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wings_rfs
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07/25, 10:07am | report spam | close Reply |
What About The Essentials

Oh Boy. Cut & Paste! N-S-E-W pointer! A Radio! Background Push!

Now what about a simple reminder beeper so I'll know when I've missed a call????

C'mon Apple. Fill in the missing pieces before you go adding more fluff. (Although cut/paste isn't fluff, it's another essential.)

InfraredAD
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07/25, 10:11am | report spam | close Reply |
Suggestion

If anyone at Apple reads these posts, I have a suggestion, if you can do it, make contact lookups multi-threaded and the refreshing of contacts real time, if it isn't already.

In my experience so far with 2.0, on both an original & 3G looking up contacts causes a big pause in the "Contacts" app, contacts tab or adding a contact in an e-mail. Any of those apps or actions do become responsive, but they usually jump up or down if I've tried to scroll to a contact while the pause is in effect.

I imagine this pause is because the iPhone is contacting the MobileMe and/or Exchange. Seeing as I have both MM and Exchange, this is pretty annoying.

If we can get 3D games on the iPhone, surely a multi-threaded contact framework, ActiveSync, or whatever, is possible...

cmoney
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07/25, 10:23am | report spam | close Reply |
Re: What about the

You must be under the impression that this is first and foremost a phone! :)

BTW, personally, reminder beeps are the first thing I turn off on other phones...

fletcher
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07/25, 10:30am | report spam | (1 reply) close Reply |
Reminder

There's a little alert that pops up to let you know you missed a call and also a flag on the phone icon on the main screen.

Push is very important. The iPhone's email push is impressive. I get a notification on my iPhone sometimes before the message is even available to my desktop client. Allowing all applications to get this same immediacy will open up new types of functionality.

BTW, I finally did find the scientific calculator, you turn the phone on its side of course.

BWhaler
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07/25, 10:33am | report spam | close Reply |
FIX THE BUGS

Just fix the bugs..

s**** new features.

But make the iPhone not be a buggy, slow POS, please.

dimplemonkey
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07/25, 11:16am | report spam | close Reply |
Yes, bug fixes, PLEASE!!!

We're eagerly awaiting the bug fixes. v.2.0 was needing some more dilithium crystals!

loudpedal
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07/25, 11:28am | report spam | close Reply |
Read it

If you read the last line, 2.0.1 will be released first as a bug fix. I just got my first push e-mail today. It's nice to be caught up to most of the other iPhone users!

rytc
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07/25, 12:11pm | report spam | (1 reply) close Reply |
Text messasing

How about adding a counter to the SMS client so that we actually know how many characters we have typed - maybe then the iPhone would be better than my 9 year old Nokia which has this feature.

But seriously this really makes the iPhone suck for those of us paying per text message.

bauhaus
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Txt messing counter

It's not needed in the US, at least. You pay per message, not per character and the messages are unlimited in length (as far as I can tell) as it is using extended messaging.

dwoodruff
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07/25, 12:20pm | report spam | close Reply |
hey rytc

the charge is per message, not per character... So why would you need to count characters?

cmoney
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07/25, 01:00pm | report spam | close Reply |
Re: txt message size

Because SMS is 160 characters by default. Anything over gets sent as a second message...or third or fourth, etc. Some phones reattach messages so it all looks like one but the actual spec is 160 chars per message.

testudo
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07/25, 03:43pm | report spam | close Reply |
Wait a second!

There's an entry in the localized strings file with the words copy and paste in it? Well, then, we know that it must be coming any day now. (And you can't expect an iPhone to have some just invented feature like this just a year after its release! That's just crazy thinking!)

adept1
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07/25, 04:51pm | report spam | close Reply |
160 chars per msg

Each SMS has 160 char max limit when you're using roman characters. When you're using Chinese/Japanese/Korean it's much less. Most modern phones will allow to exceed this, and then send as multiple concatenated messages.

thibaulthalpern
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07/25, 07:10pm | report spam | close Reply |
SMS messaging

Exactly what others have said. Each message is 160 characters long and any message over that length will be divided into 160 character per message and thus still character per message.

For Chinese, I believe each character is 2-bytes which means 160 English characters will be 80 Chinese characters.

thibaulthalpern
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07/25, 07:10pm | report spam | close Reply |
SMS messaging

Exactly what others have said. Each message is 160 characters long and any message over that length will be divided into 160 character per message and thus still charge per message.For Chinese, I believe each character is 2-bytes which means 160 English characters will be 80 Chinese characters.

imagine engine
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07/26, 01:03pm | report spam | close Reply |
2.1 update

I would like to see Apple resolve the speed issue that's currently seen by users of 2.0 when opening apps or typing a message. As for enhancements I would like the following: copy/paste, video recording, digital zoom, improved battery life while using HSPA, improved response time when using GPS, audible turn by turn directions when plotting directions in Google Maps, ability to send text message in English though for third party receiving message to see it in their native language (ie: French, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, etc) on their iPhone, the ability to easily tether to my MacBook Pro for Bluetooth/WIFI DUN to use HSPA when not in range of WIFI or in range of landline ISP, remote data wipe for MobileMe subscribers, shorten pull time response to 5 minutes instead of 15 minutes for those using email that doesn't currently offer push, ability to run third party apps in the background but also the ability to kill the process if the app crashes, ability to download ringtones from iTunes Store directly to the iPhone and lastly the ability to download apps over 10 MB while using HSPA.

rytc
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07/27, 11:38am | report spam | close Reply |
Texting

As people have said one text message is 160 characters - if you type 161 characters you send 2 messages and if you get charged per message you now paid twice as much as you needed to. If you have a contract and can send 200 messages a month for instance, then you now have 198 left rather than 199 as would have been the case if you had deleted a single character. I like to know how many messages I am sending as typically by abbreviating a few words I could have slimmed it down to a single message. While this feature may not be needed on US contracts where perhaps you have unlimited texts a month, the iPhone is and has been sold overseas, and is available off contract in a lot of places. On pay as you go you pay per message and many providers give you an allotment of messages a month not unlimited. Therefore, Apple needs to update the phone for usage patterns around the word. Considering this is such a basic feature it was something I was hoping would be added in the 2.0 firmware....Come on Apple...

aSevie
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07/27, 05:47pm | report spam | close Reply |
Apple please do this...

"Apple if you're reading this..." wah haa. Now that's funny.

Guest
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07/28, 01:22am | report spam | close Reply |
sweet jeebus!

i scream and scream and no one believes i'm not an apple fanboy, but this iphone thing is making everything so sad...at this rate, iphone will catch up to my palm centro--itself with an unusually functional but still ancient OS--in two years!

my bro (imagining selling an iphone to get an iphone 3G!) got an IM app and a voice record app and is SO HAPPY! my centro came with that stuff like crapware! i'm streaming podcasts, i'm googlemapping, i'm cut-and-pasting podcasts into google maps (wait...that makes no sense, but you get the idea...)

what IS THIS IPHONE c***?! finish the stupid product and start selling it!

PS the only reason the sell the iphone is to make it seem reasonable to buy a macbook air. oh...and i really really want a macbook air!

gawd!

thank god windows will always suck more, or i'd really have nothing in my sad, empty little life.

have a nice day, and remember: the cool kids really ARE carrrying their iphones in their a**es, it's not a rumor!

Guest
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07/28, 01:23am | report spam | close Reply |
sweet jeebus!

i scream and scream and no one believes i'm not an apple fanboy, but this iphone thing is making everything so sad...at this rate, iphone will catch up to my palm centro--itself with an unusually functional but still ancient OS--in two years!

my bro (imagining selling an iphone to get an iphone 3G!) got an IM app and a voice record app and is SO HAPPY! my centro came with that stuff like crapware! i'm streaming podcasts, i'm googlemapping, i'm cut-and-pasting podcasts into google maps (wait...that makes no sense, but you get the idea...)

what IS THIS IPHONE c***?! finish the stupid product and start selling it!

PS the only reason the sell the iphone is to make it seem reasonable to buy a macbook air. oh...and i really really want a macbook air!

gawd!

thank god windows will always suck more, or i'd really have nothing in my sad, empty little life.

have a nice day, and remember: the cool kids really ARE carrrying their iphones in their a**es, it's not a rumor!

Guest
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07/28, 01:25am | report spam | close Reply |
sweet jeebus!!

i scream and scream and no one believes i'm not an apple fanboy, but this iphone thing is making everything so sad...at this rate, iphone will catch up to my palm centro--itself with an unusually functional but still ancient OS--in two years!

my bro (imagining selling an iphone to get an iphone 3G!) got an IM app and a voice record app and is SO HAPPY! my centro came with that stuff like crapware! i'm streaming podcasts, i'm googlemapping, i'm cut-and-pasting podcasts into google maps (wait...that makes no sense, but you get the idea...)

what IS THIS IPHONE c***?! finish the stupid product and start selling it!

PS the only reason the sell the iphone is to make it seem reasonable to buy a macbook air. oh...and i really really want a macbook air!

gawd!

thank god windows will always suck more, or i'd really have nothing in my sad, empty little life.

have a nice day, and remember: the cool kids really ARE carrrying their iphones in their a**es, it's not a rumor!

bb23
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add this

-cut and paste,
-MMS msging (i don't want to email and my friend on his/her cell doesn't want to access his/her email)
-radio/online radio service, most radio have online stream, I want to be able to access that on ONE app and also sports, granted most are blacked outside the location/city (MLB RADIO) but if i'm in the city, I should get access to it (since its streamed in my location and i'm in the location)
-calendar service, if I add a b-day to my contact I want it to show on the calendar
-address port, from txt messages
-delete native apps, yahoo weather and stocks doesn't cut it, there will be better down loadable apps, I want to be able to delete the native ones
-itunes play list on the fly (while a song is playing)
-iphone locate, for anyone who gave an iphone to their children (I have no problems paying for this)
-phone number lookup
-fix the iTunes/iPhone bug, I still get iPhone cannot connect/find it...

bb23
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add this

-cut and paste,
-MMS msging (i don't want to email and my friend on his/her cell doesn't want to access his/her email)
-radio/online radio service, most radio have online stream, I want to be able to access that on ONE app and also sports, granted most are blacked outside the location/city (MLB RADIO) but if i'm in the city, I should get access to it (since its streamed in my location and i'm in the location)
-calendar service, if I add a b-day to my contact I want it to show on the calendar
-address port, from txt messages
-delete native apps, yahoo weather and stocks doesn't cut it, there will be better down loadable apps, I want to be able to delete the native ones
-itunes play list on the fly (while a song is playing)
-iphone locate, for anyone who gave an iphone to their children (I have no problems paying for this)
-phone number lookup
-fix the iTunes/iPhone bug, I still get iPhone cannot connect/find it...

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iPhone 2.1 firmware to have copy/paste, better GPS?

updated 09:40 am EDT, Fri July 25, 2008

iPhone 2.1 firmware specs?

What About The Essentials

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Reminder

FIX THE BUGS

Yes, bug fixes, PLEASE!!!

Read it

Text messasing

Txt messing counter

hey rytc

Re: txt message size

Wait a second!

160 chars per msg

SMS messaging

SMS messaging

2.1 update

Texting

Apple please do this...

sweet jeebus!

sweet jeebus!

sweet jeebus!!

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