Apple seeds updated iPhone 2.0 beta, not many changes
By Ryan Block 
posted Mar 30th 2008 5:31PM
posted Mar 30th 2008 5:31PM
Update: Oh hey, Safari apparently has a YouTube plugin now!
posted Mar 30th 2008 5:31PM
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Good thing this has already been "Pwned"...
Is this out there leaked on the internet in any fashion?
Is this really worthy of Engadget and not just Engadget Mobile?
nothing else to read on a sunday
My exact thought. Just when I thought we were going to have an Apple free Sunday this "news" pops up. This is clearly something highly insignificant which IMO belongs to Engadget Mobile
People are just upset because they don't like reading about iPhone news because they don't own an iPhone.
Besides on a Sunday, even those "XBOX Live Is Down...AGAIN!" posts would entertain me.
Finally, news after 6 hours!
go outside!
dude, in case my avatar and name don't give it away, I'm from Chicago. Know what's Chicago's nickname? Windy city. You know why? 'Cause it's pretty darn cold in times like MARCH!! :P Sorry, coudn't help it.
actually, the nickname references the politicians, not the actual weather.
@ robot overlord-you took the words out of my mouth
And I thought yesterday was a slow day :)
I've been coding for this for the iphone for about 3 months and I just succeeded in loading up a custom firmware for the iphone. It doesen't have call support but it does have built in emulation for snes/nes/gba/gbc and genesis. It's still in the alpha stages but heres a video of it in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
I've seen that URL plenty of times before bro.
Wow, that is a great video of your Firmware inaction!
Damn you, that's the third time today!
*note to self* "practise random link clicking restraint".
Hah! I didn't see it. I LOVE tabs. I just clicked it with my center mouse button and in the Far corner it said Rick Rolled! I don't use my speaker for web browsing anyway, so the jokes on you!
So this update doesn't have the "point-to-point transporter" firmware. That'll probably be included in the next update.
On a slow day, any news will do. Since it's Apple iPhone news, it's that much sweeter.
SARCASM ALERT!!!
Cool! Copy and Paste will be coming to the iPhone!!!!
Most excellent.
Oh, wait. Nevermind.
I've been told there's a YouTube browser plugin?
that's been there since release.....
In other news, I heard Blu-ray might win the format war...
I said Browser plugin, as in YouTube works within Safari.
You mean FLASH
Erm not necessarily.. they could have done some H.264 code voodoo that lets the youtube video load inside safari like a quicktime video.
No, but it already redirects youtube links to YouTube.app
Yes I am aware that this is the current way it works. I'm not saying that this is true or even useful if it is, just that another site was reporting that a youtube safari plugin might be a supposed difference, and one that the original post did not outline (the title of the post, after all, suggests that there were few changes).
Why cant any of these leak already...I still cant get over that!! Apple must have this locked down pretty good.
Beta firmware comes with disabled phone features so that it users like you don't foolishly install it.
apple sucks anyway
Yeah, NO.
I personally don't use ANY Apple products, but still. They must have done something right to keep on going. I think Microsoft funded them for a while, but they came out of it.
Competition is good.
We've become an updating society. ooh updates. lol
can someone fucking leak this already?
i want enterprise wpa and activesync
Just to let those of you who want it leaked. first off they way it is installed and registered, at least the official version, it would be very difficult to leak due to the registration process required to install and activate it on your phone, plus from the sound of the apple docs if you try to install this on a non-registered iphone it will brick the phone.
second, its neat all the features are cool, but unless you are actually using it for development purposes it sucks right now. very unstable, contacts are messed up and the itunes restore is screwed up to. i suggest you just suck it up and wait.
plus why is this on here now? this came out days ago.
so does anyone have a way of downloading it...like...now?
Yeah, you can download it here: __________
Oh wait, never mind, like everyone else alive, you still gotta wait.
Or you could freeze yourself. Careful not to get aids. I
*That last line should end with "I (heart) b00bs"
The firmware has leaked onto Bittorrent according to several iPhone blogs!