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New iPhone update: What’s still missing
apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com - 10/31/2008
New iPhone update: What’s still missing
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There’s a little joke at the end of Charlie Sorrell’s nicely illustrated 8 Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update on Wired.com. The last item in Sorrell’s list of known fixes (cobbled together from leaks from iPhone Firmware 2.2 Beta 2) is improvement No. 8: Copy and Paste Kidding! ...

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MacDailyNews:  What’s still missing?  iPhone 2.2 update wish list

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Wired: Gadget Lab:  Hacker Attaches Physical Keyboard to iPhone

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What’s still missing?  iPhone 2.2 update wish list
MacDailyNews — ... soliciting suggestions 12 days ago and has already generated more than 270,000 responses," Phillip Elmer-Dewitt reports or Fortune. Comparing that list to Wired's "8 Things to Expect in the Next iPhone Update," Elmer-Dewitt writes. [image] Elmer-Dewitt writes, "Note that not one of the iPhone’s new features appears on the user-generated list. In fact, you have scroll down to No. 18 — “Walking directions,” a new Google Maps feature — to find anything that matches." Full article here . [Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Dale E." for the heads up.] ...

Weekly Recap: Apple Outperforms, People Get Poached and Numbers Come In
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... Within the new build are a few surprises, both functional and pretty. But, most surprising of all is the apparent priority in which Apple is treating certain features that users are clamoring for. Additionally, a welcome addition by the community is the launch of Apple’s new iPhone Developer Forums. READ → - iPhone Copy-and-Paste, Maybe Next Time READ → - Google Street View Enabled in iPhone Firmware 2.2 Beta 2 READ → - New iPhone update: What’s still missing (Fortune) READ ...

Hacker Attaches Physical Keyboard to iPhone
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... If Apple isn't going to fix all the stuff that bugs you about the iPhone, you might as well hack and mod it to be better, right? A hacker (in the video above) took that idea to the extreme and attached a physical QWERTY keyboard to his Jailbroken iPhone. ...

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