A few details about version 2.2 of the iPhone firmware have emerged. According to the Digital Earth Blog, it will include Google StreetView, an expected move since it was recently released for Google Maps Mobile (Nokia, etc) and is part of Android.
In addition, you’ll finally be able to disable auto-correction on the keyboard. I personally hate it, so I’ll be happy to get rid of it.
Beyond that, they’ll be including support for Japanese emoji icons, which has been blamed as part of the reason for the slow iPhone adoption in Japan.
No word on Background Push Notification in this update, nor a release date for it.
(via MacRumors)
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It appears that the iPhone’s much-heralded background push notification might show up with the version 2.1 firmware. I had assumed that it would be there with 2.0, but that’s not been the case.
Background push notification is a pretty slick concept. It allows applications to receive small updates even when they’re not running. For example, a gmail app could receive updates that tell me how many new messages I have, and a small icon would appear above the gmail icon. You can see how it looks with the Facebook app in the screenshot to the right.
Of course, the Facebook icon can only update after you run the application and it can check your inbox status, which kind of defeats the purpose of it. Hopefully this update gets this feature off the ground, because it will be very useful for a lot of apps.
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In addition, you’ll finally be able to disable auto-correction on the keyboard. I personally hate it, so I’ll be happy to get rid of it.