The iPhone Dev Team who had reported last week that they have cracked iPhone 3G’s baseband and are getting closer to unlock iPhone 3G have published a customary post on their blog to tell us that they have managed to successfully jailbreak and unlock the first generation iPhone running iPhone firmware 2.2 Beta 2 which was recently seeded to developers of its iPhone Developer program.
iPhone firmware 2.2 is not yet available to iPhone users.
TUAW is reporting that they have received some screen shots from one of their readers of iPhone Firmware 2.2 which reveals that iPhone users will have the ability to download podcasts directly to their iPhone.
iPhone firmware 2.2 Beta 2 and Beta 1 have already revealed some interesting features; and we are sure users who listen to podcasts will like the idea of downloading them directly on their iPhone.
The beta version of iPhone firmware 2.2 which should be released to iPhone users soon has revealed some interesting features like Google Street View including walking and public transportation routes for directions.
A new screen shot from iPhone firmware 2.2 published by folks at Greek site, iPhoneHellas reveals that Apple is planning to add a rating system for iPhone apps in the upcoming firmware update
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Apple has seeded its developers of the iPhone Developer program with the second beta version of iPhone Firmware 2.2.
Mac Rumors is reporting that iPhone Firmware 2.2 beta 2 has Google’s Street View fully enabled. So we can expect the feature whenever the firmware is released to iPhone users.
Update:
In addition to Google Street View, iPhoneYap is reporting that you
will also be able to get walking and public transportation routes as
part of directions in Google Maps application. You can checkout the screenshots after the jump.
In a statement to developers on its iPhone Developer Program website; Apple had announced a few weeks back that they have dropped the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) for released iPhone Firmware. Apple has now posted a new iPhone developer agreement as promised.
To kick things off, Apple has also launched an iPhone developer forum which is open to all approved iPhone developers.
There are also reports that Apple has started seeding iPhone firmware 2.2 Beta 2 to iPhone developers which requires them to first accept the new developer agreement.
The beta version of iPhone Firmware 2.2 that was seeded to developers of the iPhone developer program has revealed some minor tweaks to iPhone Safari’s user interface and to the App Store application.
Mac Rumors has revealed some more interesting new features that could be included in the next iPhone firmware update.
iPhone Firmware 2.2 that was seeded to developers of the iPhone Developer program recently has already revealed a minor tweak to iPhone’s Safari browser.
That’s not the only change, developers are reporting that they have observed couple of changes to iPhone’s App Store application shipping with the first beta version of iPhone firmware 2.2.
The iPhone Dev Team have been working tirelessly since the iPhone has been launched to bring us the latest iPhone hacking tools. They have been successful in jailbreaking and unlocking the 1st generation iPhone and jailbreaking iPhone 3G as well.
However, they still have couple of challenges, the first one is the much awaited software method to unlock iPhone 3G and the more recent one is to jailbreak the 2nd generation iPod Touch.
They have recently published a post on their blog to update us on their progress in unlocking iPhone 3G.
I had mentioned that Apple had not provided much information about the changes in the first beta version of iPhone firmware 2.2 (Build 9M2611) that was seeded to developers yesterday other than a note that it is for "compatibility testing".
However, iPhone Atlas has published a screen shot which reveals that iPhone Safari’s user interface could get a tweak in iPhone firmware 2.2.
Apple has seeded developers of its iPhone Developer program with the first beta version of iPhone firmware 2.2 (Build 9M2611).
Apple has not provided much information about the changes in the beta firmware other than a note that it is for "compatibility testing".
