Monthly Archives: November 2008

Apple releases iPhone 2.2 Firmware

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Apple just released the new iPhone 2.2 Firmware.
Some of the new features include:

  • Enhancements to Maps
    • Google Street View*
    • Public transit and walking directions
    • Display address of dropped pins
    • Share location via email
  • Decrease in call setup failures and dropped calls
  • Enhancements to Mail
    • Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
    • Improved formatting of wide HTML email
  • Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)
  • Improved stability and performance of Safari
  • Improved sound quality of Visual Voicemail messages
  • Pressing Home button from any Home screen displays the first Home screen
  • Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings

To enable street view, you go to a area on the map where street view is available and drop a pin if you don’t have one currently up and click the small person in the red circle.
You can find out more about the update here – http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/

Google Video Chat

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Well Google finally released a Video client.  They have had the chat client for a while, but now you can video chat also.  This is good like Skype for cross platform communication, because other services like MSN video chat require you to run Windows to video chat with users, so if you have a Mac, you can’t video chat with MSN users unless you run Bootcamp or the like.
You can download it over here – http://mail.google.com/videochat