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Apple Adds More Features to the iPhone

Nov 21, 2008, 8:40 AM by Eric M. Zeman

Today Apple released firmware version 2.2 for the iPhone. The updated software brings several new features to Google Maps, including Street Views; Public Transit and walking directions; the ability to see the address of dropped pins; and the ability to share user location information via email. It brings some updates to the email application, including fixes to mail retrieval and better formatting for HTML emails. The update also stabilizes Safari, decreases call failures, improves the voice quality of visual voicemail messages and makes podcasts available for download from within the iTunes application. The update is free.

source: Apple

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jsitar

Nov 21, 2008, 9:41 AM

update

google maps update is pretty nice. the walking feature is good to know. I hope the safari update fixes all the browser crashes i have.

durkadurkha

because its such an inconvenience to press the safari button again from the home screen?
if people like YOU wouldn't have been whining about how safari works at 99% instead of 100% they would have had those programmers working on something worth upgr...
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caesar6591

Nov 22, 2008, 10:50 AM

this is stupid

where is my mms, video capture, landscape texting mode, and bluetooth transfer? screw apple.

wtherrell

I second the motion! No support for my To Do List from Outlook 2003. ATT still a crappy network. For me iPhone is still just an expensive toy and not very useful. The new GPS options still fall short of a GPS enabled Windows Mobile phone. iPhools...
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CFoukas

Nov 21, 2008, 2:30 PM

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZz

Boring -- same old thing from Apple

bluecoyote

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