As expected, Apple chose this weekend to release the latest beta version of its iPhone firmware to developers for testing new features before making it public but it's what it hasn't done that's really noteworthy.
Although firmware 2.2 now has the Street View option in Google Maps, it still doesn't give the iPhone the ability to copy or cut and paste text.
Plenty missing
The one feature that pretty much every iPhone owner has been clamouring for since the handset hit the market isn't the only thing not happening.
Apple has also not added the ability to handle MMS, nor has it enabled landscape mode email composition – both features that have been in demand since day one.
As for a video-shooting mode on the camera, well, we guess there's always the option to jailbreak the phone and pick up a copy of iPhone Video Recorder.
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kpasa84
October 27th 2008
3. OH! and there is also no application that you can download that will allow you to send a picture via a text or to another phone (iphone or not) that doesn't have the same application and proximity to your own.
you'd think, with the iphone being out long enough to get a revised version, that someone would have come up with a picture application to send them via a text to another person's phone.
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kpasa84
October 27th 2008
2. I really miss the picture texting I had with my l7 slvr.
i talk about my personal views in this article i wrote: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1004550/3g_iphone_the_pros_and_cons.html?cat=15
not everyone uses email, and it would just be really convenient to send pictures via a text rather than having to log in an email or wait for someone to get near a computer.
that said, i love the voicemail options!
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jmace86
October 26th 2008
1. I do not care in the least about MMS or video but I do really want to be able to cut/copy and paste with my iPhone and the option to use the e-mail function with the iPhone tilted onto its side would also be very nice.
I would also like to see the option to download and store parts of google maps so that one does not have to have a cellular network signal in order to use the map functionality of the iPhone.
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