Johnny Chadda

Note · 21 Nov 2008

Note

So the new iPhone 2.2 firmware was released this morning, and here are the news:

Enhancements to Google Maps

  • Street view
  • Public transit and walking directions
  • Display address of dropped pins
  • Share location via email

Enhancements to Mail

  • Resolved isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
  • Improved formatting of wide HTML email

Other

  • Improved stability and performance of Safari
  • Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application (over Wifi and 3G)
  • Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
  • Improved sound quality of visual voice mail messages
  • Pressing the Home screen button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
  • Preference to turn on/off auto-correction in Keyboard Settings

The best news is that they seem to have fixed the auto-fetch for Mail which broke with the 2.1 update!

Update 2008-11-21 13:40

So, as anticipated our friends the misfits have recently released the long awaited 2.2 update. We can confirm that this update SHOULD NOT be applied using iTunes if you want the chance of a soft-unlock in the near future.

If you want to keep that option of a ‘soft-unlock in the near future’ available but you want the new features of 2.2, you will be able to update to 2.2 using a PwnageTool created custom ipsw file that disables the baseband update. You will be able to do this using an updated version of PwnageTool that will be released sometime soon.

Oh no…

Update 2008-11-22 15:43

iLounge.com has an in-depth review of the changes in the 2.2 update.

Update 2008-11-23 11:58

QuickPwn for 2.2 released!