Hirdetés
New features and deficiencies of the 2.0 software
Although there have been a couple of things mentioned about the new features of the iPhone 2.0 software on the previous pages, but that’s not it. For example password entry has been enhanced: when we are typing a secret text the phone won’t put an asterisk in place of the last character until we start typing the next one – this way we can easily observe if we have mistyped something. Another great thing is that we can use many virtual keyboards – of different languages – at the same time and we can switch between them at the press of a button.
The calculator now has scientific functions too, we just have to rotate the phone to access them.
Thanks to the built-in GPS receiver the camera can geo-tag the images. With the new software, applications that use GPS information ask whether they might access the data they want – the problem is that upon starting the camera we always have to answer this question, which is a bit annoying. It’s not a new feature of the 2.0 software, but it’s still worth mentioning that we can freely change the order of the icons in the menu and we can use many pages.
I didn’t yet mention the greatest new feature: we have an App Store! This is a kind of virtual shop where we can download new software. As opposed to general belief there aren’t only commercial programs, if we take a look at the selection (that included about 1000 applications at the moment of writing this review) we can see lots of free ones, but I would had to register in order to use it, so I can only talk about downloading only when the phone becomes officially available at T-Mobile.
It’s important to note that App Store includes only those software that have been approved by the manufacturer. Everyone should decide if this is good or not, but it’s sure that other manufacturers also do this (e.g. RIM), but it will surely be strange for Windows Mobile owners. I personally think that filtered content is a great thing, I have seen software for the Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms that have killed the phone I have installed them on – well we surely won’t see such a thing on the iPhone. We should also note that someone has already bypassed the system and there is an application for $1000 USD that only displays a precious stone on the display. Eight smartass guys have downloaded it until Apple removed it from the store.
That’s about it for the software. We can see that there still are great flaws, lack of MMS and Flash support for example, but I can say a couple of other stuff that would be needed: profile chooser, voice dialing/voice commands, instant messaging software (like MSN), copy-paste feature, ability to work as an HSDPA modem… and of course Bluetooth, that still can be used only for transferring voice, but it doesn’t support the stereo profile (A2DP).
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