iPhone 2.2 Beta Hidden Features
A couple of weeks ago, Apple seeded the 2.2 Firmware Beta 1 to developers for testing. We’ve since heard of a couple of new features buried within the iPhone 2.2 beta. Apple has apparently made underlying changes to the iPhone’s frameworks that are not yet exposed to the end user. These findings include:
- Support for Japanese emoji icons (a popular feature for Japanese phones). The lack of emoji support has been blamed as part of the reason for slow iPhone adoption in Japan.
- Support for Google Street View for the Google Maps application. Street View allows users to view panoramic street level photographs in select cities within the Google Maps application. The feature was recently demoed on Google’s Android phone.
Finally, Apple has also addressed one common request within the iPhone’s Keyboard settings, allowing users to disable the iPhone’s auto-correction.
This pre-release version of iPhone 2.2 Firmware looks very promising and I’m sure that this update will make many people happy, being able to turn off that auto correction option already makes me happy, and I’m sure that there are many others out there who are also excited to get this update. [via MacRumors]
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