Apple Seeds iPhone Firmware 2.2 Beta 1

hope not to late )))

hope background notifications come soon!

why do they rls new firmwares every month??? its too muchh

Apple has seeded some iPhone developers with a new beta iPhone firmware for testing. The new build is iPhone OS 2.2 (build 9M2611) beta 1. Beyond "compatibility testing", there are no other differences noted by Apple. It's not clear yet if the new builds have any further implementation of background push notifications that have been promised by Apple.

Wouldn't it be 2.1.1 if it was something as small as compatibility? There's gotta be some new features. Hope it does include push notification.

The latest purported email from Steve Jobs claims that this feature is "running a bit late":Apple released the 2.1 Firmware to the public on September 12th. iPhone 2.1 addressed a number of bugs and stability issues with the iPhone and App Store.

What's with all the purported Steve Jobs emails? I believed that the first one was real, but after word got out, I'm sure some must be fakes. It's too easy to say "Steve Jobs emailed me."

Fix the Bluetooth echo? Please!?!?!

My wife's 1st Gen iPhone works fine, my 3G is the problem- must be the firmware.

Given the size of the thread from the Apple Discussion thread (the link is below), hopefully this firmware update will address the problem that the iPhone is not automatically fetching e-mail after the 2.1 update.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1708956&tstart=0

Here's to copy & paste!

Also, kinda disappointed I can't get the beta. I have an iPhone development thing (the $99 thing) as well as an ADC Select membership, but it doesn't appear for me. Guess I'm not special enough. :(

Maybe iit will be on time for October's event?

Persistent connections work fine, thanks. No CPU time and no bandwidth is taken up with an idle connection (assume no keep-alives) and a process waiting for incoming data thereon. You could make an argument for the need to swap if you have several apps open, but this is 2008: efficient swapping algorithms and requests that an app shut down ("hey app, the user hasn't used you for a while, can I quit you?" "sure, I will do nothing whatsoever until I receive user input"/"nope, I'm waiting on remote data") are not beyond a competent OS developer.

Bottlenecking everything through Apple's servers is not 100% right any time. But it's yet another sword to hang over 3rd party programmers.

Nike+ and headphone volume control......

Even I'm kinda 'Nah' on this!