Remember that sweet little
magnifying glass from the iPhone SDK demo? Well apparently we all weren't having a shared hallucination -- it's in the enterprise version of firmware 2.0. Thanks to a tipster, we've now got shots of the search bar clearly hanging out at the top of the contacts list. While we're unraveling mysteries, you'll be happy to know that the little drawer button -- which did nothing in the
regular old firmware we had -- is actually a meeting invitations folder, which displays the number of requests just like the SMS and mail icons. Other changes? Enterprise users don't get the app store or iTunes store icons. Boo. Check out the gallery below to see just exactly what we're talking about. Now, on to finding JFK's real killer!
posted Apr 9th 2008 11:07AM
Great! Now I need to get more friends to make use of that search function...
well, David Bue Pedersen is looking to add more guy friends in his picture frame of love and leds, so maybe you should give him a quick shout out
For salespeople with a few thousand contacts, it will be extremely helpful. Hence why it's on the enterprise version.
this guy wishes he had thousands of contacts
http://www.magitek.nu/gil/jobs.shtml
You know what would be cool? If you could get cover flow on your contacts so you can browse them by the picture that you assigned to them.
There are some people working on getting the coverflow API working: http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/02/20/cracking-the-coverflow-code/
I am sure a coverflow contact app is in the works.
Apple are so annoying - why can't they make a phone with software that can't be updated like all the others. Why do they have to keep making improvements for the users, sure obsolescence is the new black?
He he
[Fanboy][ThinkDifferent]
Wow! An exact copy of Windows Mobile 6 Professional's contact list!
[/ThinkDifferent][/Fanboy]
Now those oh-Apple-got-this-first-and-all-of-you-are-copycats-we-fanboys-will-laugh-at-you-forever fanboys can shut up for good.
for good? like as in forever? and when the 3g iphone comes out, are you going to have the same exact post but doctored up to show how other phones had 3g first so now the iphone is unoriginal? this is just sheer win for the win for the people. you're like a champion or something.
Dude, your anti-Apple whining is just embarrassing. And the only people who use the term "fanboy" are..well, you get the idea :p
I had Ziggy run the numbers, and I'm pretty sure you can fit the word "Fanboy" into your post at least 3 more times.
Oh my god, say it ain't so... Apple didn't invent everything in the universe? Say it ain't so! And here I've been telling my grandma that her home phone keypad was patterned after His Steveness's brilliant keypad design on the iPhone!
*sob*
@ Muncky
For referencing the brilliant Quantum Leap, you sir are getting ranked the hell up.
Regards,
Leo
Wow, a Search function. How exciting and earth shattering for the jesus phone :)
dude, you're so right. they just shouldn't have added it at all. and i bet they wouldn't have if'n they had only calculated the intense and meaningful backlash from sarcastic internet posters.
dude, you're so right. they just shouldn't have added it at all. and i bet they wouldn't have if'n they had only calculated the intense and meaningful backlash from sarcastic internet posters.
sons of breeches, what the funke is with me having to press reply twice to get it to reply, oh engadgetsies? feel free to delete the above post, but not this one. oh no, not this one.
Wow, looks like the iPho... er, wait, let me start over-
Wow, looks like iPhone is one step closer to being a REAL phone. Now let's just see some mobile broadband, and I might very well be sold.
Don't real phones, like, make calls?
HAHAH? Wow, twice you've zinged me today.
And no, wise guy. Even my mom's old Motorola E815 has a search function, along with 3G (or EV-DO, you get the idea.) Now, when a non-smartphone trumps the capabilities of a phone that initially cost $600, then you've got a problem.
Wow! You singled out a feature that the iPhone doesn't have. You're SO smart! I'm sure we can't single out any features that "your Mom's E815" doesn't have that the iPhone does have. No way...It would take a GENIUS to figure that out.
After all, we know it's having EVERY SINGLE FEATURE EVER that makes or breaks a phone. Anything else is complete and utter garbage!
@ Lien
Cock! Enough said
How about the Bluetooth icon on all of the images? Could this mean Bluetooth syncing as well? It maybe just a pipe dream but hopefully reality.
No, the bluetooth icon simply means bluetooth is turned on and is present in all firmware versions. Besides who would want to sync over BT when it has WiFi?
Sane is a dickhead
Wow so this basic functionality has been missing? [sarcasm]What a revolutionary phone indeed[/sarcasm]
And is searches... Fanboys really do suspend reality for their beloved company.
"Enterprise Users"
Umm okay whats the difference between them and us regular folks? Also does this mean that the regular user won't get the search or w/e for contacts and do this whole "meeting" thing?
Plus why exactly do they not have the store Apps Store or iTunes Store icons?
It just looks like its a no win situation either way...but I might just be making way too early conclusions.
looks like Apple might be copying Microsoft! Next up, Ultra, Premium, Silver, Purple, and Orange editions!
I think it will be available for everyone and also I think they moved the iTunes and Appstore icons to a different page of the iPhone's home screen. Oh yeah and Sane is an idiot.
say what?! Apple copying MICROSOFT!!! NOOO WAY...
*worldfallingapart*
Does this mean that exchange sync will _only_ be available for enterprise users? I have a real need for exchange connectivity, but I still like my iTunes store and such.
I think the likely answer, based on Apple's prior history with Enterprise/Consumer versions (read: no distinction) is that the "Search" feature will be available in the final 2.0 software for all users.
Just because they are beta-testing it with enterprise users first (and not, say, developers) is probably because their release of the software to non-enterprise users (developers) is not meant to beta-test the new features, but to allow them to do other things (say, develop applications...).
I just have one question, do you need to be set up on an exchange server to receive calendar invites? Or can anyone just send you one through Outlook or Entourage and you'd receive it when your phone fetches email?
i distinctly counted two questions there.
*gives stern look at Gir while thanking trusty abacus and asian man used for counting accurately*
Boring. Give me multimedia messaging and I'll be 100% happy with my iPhone.
10 - 1 odds that this guy doesn't even have a phone with MMS capabilities
I totally agree!!!
Well, that would be a sucker bet because I have an iPhone.
mother of cod, i read not awesome. i post not awesome too as well as. and i promised myself long ago that i would never question a ninja.
Does anyone else think it's odd that the alphabet at the side goes up over the search bar? Doesn't make sense to me
@anonymoose
often times you are funny, even witty. But as the old saying goes, frequency breeds contempt. Sit on your fingers more and let the other children play....
So is there going to be an "Enterprise" version of the iphone 2.0 firmware and a non-"Enterprise" version? Will people be able to have the app store as well as the features that they said would come for the enterprise crowd?
I really hope that they don't separate the two, because there are some important enterprise features that I really want but I would not want to sacrifice the app store just to get them. (Specifically I want 802.1X, my University uses it for wireless authentication)
Enterprise Edition will probably mean a phone that is locked to prevent from open access to App Store and iTunes Store, if the owner—not user—of the device wishes. The Enterprise account for the app certificate is 3x that of the normal price and are not hosted by Apple.
802.11x will still be available as it is not, as you mentioned, an business only utility. Fear not.
Still wondering when it's going to show up in current builds. Oy.
I presume that the iTunes store and Apps store icons are just disabled during testing...or in the Enterprise profile a company could choose whether or not to disable such features.
On the contact search feature -- can you type in a phone number and have it reverse look-up the contact name??
@greg:
If you really need reverse lookup you can do a poor man's version of it: just dial the phone number from the keypad and tap call. If the phone number is in the address book the name will show up.
@Harkonian
You actually don't have to tap call, just entering the phone number will display the contacts name under the number if it is in you contact list.
I was thinking more of syncing wirelessly via Bluetooth with one’s local version of iTunes (not exchange server or email providers). With the local version of iTunes Wi-Fi syncing is not an option.
I use to do this with my former Samsung phone and it is a nice to be able to sync automatically by simply being in the vicinity.
Because WiFi syncing is not enabled you think it would sense to enable BT syncing which hundreds of times slower? What you should be requesting is that Apple enable WiFi syncing.
Gee Thank you Bender Bending Rodriguez and wOOt for both for telling what it is I would actually like.
There are many reasons why both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi co-exist and one medium has not won out over the other.
Think about it, why are there are no Wi-Fi headsets around compared to Bluetooth? For close distances Bluetooth is a nice low power consuming connection for sending back and forth data. Secondly, AD2P would be nice.
In any event, both options are being more crimpled than any of us would like.
You can wish for Wi-Fi and I will wish for Bluetooth.
I'm jumping the gun but... I better not have to pay extra for enterprise features!
Sorry. this is Apple we are talking about here...
iPhone = cash cow... anything extra will cost extra, even if the extra means less than what you already have.
@ james,
Don't confuse utilities that are common in the Enterprise with a version of the iPhone designed for the Enterprise. Corporations may want to have to have tighter control over their devices than the consumer wants. The Enterprise certificate of the SDK allows comapnies to create and distribute apps that are only available in-house, not a free for all on the App Store, and the Enterprise version of the iPhone firmware "should" let them control what features are used. Some could be anal enough to not let you use the iPod or You Tube apps on the device.
Will we regular Joes get a stand-alone Contacts app?
It's probable.
It's probable.
So if i set up Exchange Active sync I cannot access the app store or iTunes store????
There is no way that can be in the final release. That would be something that is set by the IT department of the Enterprise. If I run my own company I want BOTH. They simply have nothing to do with each other. If this is true then I hope Apple and Microsoft go out of business by a freak meteor shower or something.
When you have a black berry, you can still install applications even if you are connected to a BES, unless your IT department prevents it.
Like I said before, the iTunes and Appstore icons have probably just been moved to a new home screen page.
So let me understand (forgive my lack of ) this phone has a govenor on it to keep users (other than the owner) from accessing the extra cost features? Sounds like a safety feature in my crowd.
i think its ridiculous to say they aren't getting itunes store, and app store icons... you've neglected to see the 3 dots at the bottom. They could easily be moved to homescreen 2 or 3...
Engadget: WTF? Apple produces a very mundane software update for a product that's been available for close to a year and it's somehow worth an article? Name another company that gets that kind of free publicity.
Hey look! LG released new firmware that slightly improves the clarity of downloaded ringtones on the VX2345PRt952 phone from last year!! Quick, to the presses!
Because iPhone has alot of advanced functionality, also the stuff it does that other phones do, it does it better.
Yes it does lack some of the basics, everyone wants to know when all the features that are missing are added.
Um, Engadget has and article titled "Rock Band Mushroom Drum Pads: nearly too awesome to hit" and you are complaining about new screenshots to the latest release of the iPhone software? Be like me, I didn't read the Mushroom Pads article, so why don't you stay out of this forum.
will the search feature only be available to enterprise version of 2.0? Or will it be a general update for all iPhone users? It better be for ALL!!!!
Thank god they put the contacts out on the home screen. That is one of the very few things that irritates me about my iPhone, hiding the contacts in the phone app simply sucks.
Umm... have the people that write the iPhone articles on Engadget even used one? In the posted images there are two other pages of homescreen icons (as seen by the small circles at the bottom). What are the odds that the App store and iTunes (along with 20 or more other apps) are on one of those screens? I would say about 100%.
Sheesh.
Here's hoping that contact search feature isn't reserved for only the Enterprise edition (hmm, will it boldly go where no iPhone has gone before?). It's not just enterprise users who have many, many contacts in their phones.
Why is it that features other phones have had for years is breaking news when the crippled iPhone gets it?
I have a filter for that text... never use gaussian blur. It can be undone (to a certain extent).
Hell, I can read some of it right now.
First line: David _
Second line: A______
Third: A__ Car Service
Fourth: Dr. ______
Fifth: Dr. ______ (same name I think)
Sixth: A___g___l's
Good job Baluki, why don't you disrespect the privacy of whatever nice fellow had the decency to violate his or her NDA with Apple to provide you with cool news about the iPhone. Why the hell would you possibly rat them out? That's just plain stupid.
Think you will be able to view other people's calendars and/or busy information?
I'm using the enterprise beta for my university. This search feature is excellent. Actually, on the earlier seed of the beta, the side bar seeking by first letter didn't work... and I have 300 contacts :-/ made finding people a pain in the ass. But even better, this search feature works on Active Directory!!!! I can actually do a lookup on the entire campus and find people's phone numbers and emails (well, phone nuymbers for faculty, but still). This feature works inside Mail as well. This new firmware is going to be truly great.
P.S. It took me about an hour to make a phone call since my phone would crash each time I'd dial.
What I hope to see on Iphone is the ability to search through emails based on keyword/sender etc... like the Blackberry.
The other thing would be nice is the ability to have a general mailbox with all accounts instead of having to thumb through all of the email boxes separately. (They do it in Mac MAIL but not iphone)
wifi sync would be most wanted feature for me... otherwise i see myself screwing up the battery in no time...
Now can we please, PLEASE, P L E A S E have copy and paste. Please. The lack of this basic feature makes me want to re-enact the blender comercial on a regular basis.