iPhone Firmware 2.0 Beta review: What’s new

Posted on April 17, 2008
Filed Under iPhone General, iPhone Reviews, iPhone Software

With the forthcoming release of the new iPhone, the Internet is starting to get flooded by multiple videos with the new device. Some of theses videos are true fakes, but some seem quite credible.

Yet Apple has recently released iPhone 2.0 beta and I was lucky to have one for a test (in fact the gadget will be officially released in June). Some of the changes are still to come, but some of them will be unveiled by me for you right now:

A great feature of multi-select in mail box. You can choose as many messages as you want. You will be able to work with them as with a group
The Safari browser has a function of saving images directly from web-pages. You hold your finger against the image and in a matter of moments there will appear a pop-up window with options. You can save the image into the Photo album and from the album you can set it as a background image of send to your friends
As far as I have noticed there is no contact search. In fact it might be activated when you have thousands and thousands of contacts, but as I have much less, I didn’t find the option
The calendar features a new button, but as a matter of fact the purpose of that button remained vague to me
Of course, as it was expected, the App store is present (though at the moment it doesn’t do anything)
The basic calculator has a number of new modes besides the new icon
iPhone’s VPN settings feature Cisco VPN screen. Still it is not know yet if the device will support SecurID or other hardware token authenticators
Exchange is on. It can be made through the network and over WiFi it does check-ins, so it’s not as instantaneous
Lots of parental control features have been added (like turning off YouTube)
The new version of firmware will allow you to choose WiFi network

That really sounds great, doesn’t it? A lot of features (as I have already mentioned above) are still to come. So all we can do at this point is sit, wait and wonder!

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