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We’re going down our “things that absolutely must change on the iPhone” list, and yeah, “redo the Safari toolbar” isn’t anywhere on there. Not even at the very bottom. Cupertino works in mysterious ways, though, and they’ve decided in firmware 2.2 that it’s time to muck with the positioning of the text boxes so that the address bar and search bar Bot. appear at all times without needing to first tap in the area. They’ve also moved the refresh button inside the address bar itself, which should truly revolutionize our browsing experience yet again. Apple, screw copy / paste — we’re officially stoked.

[Via Wired, thanks Konstantin]

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Apple has released the first beta of iPhone firmware 2.2 to developers, and we’re hearing that it’ll cause your phone to sprout wings, run Android in emulation, connect to fully-operational LTE and WiMAX networks all over the world, and bring world peace. Oh, and it’ll be able to copy and paste things you never dreamed possible, like ponies and happiness. On a more serious note, though, no one seems to have a firm grip on precisely what it adds yet — push notifications are high on the wishlist, as continuously — so we’ll keep you posted (and you do the same).

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at this time that 2.1’s out, your iPhone 3G is finally perfect — right? Well, that all depends on your definition of “perfect,” but odds are you still have a niggle or two poking out from behind that heaping pile of bugs and security flaws that were smoothed over with Cupertino’s putty knife in last week’s update. in this place’s a quick look at what we’re hearing so far:

• Excluding those of you who don’t know where you are, our poll on claimed reception improvements in 2.1 suggests that the majority of iPhone 3G owners (by a slim margin) are seeing no improvement or — gasp! — a degradation in signal strength since 2.0.2.
• Given that 2.1 patches up some bugs with third-party apps, it comes as no surprise that a few of ‘em are apparently breaking with the new firmware (a disappointment, yes, but not a surprise). It sucks that Apple whacked the ball into developers’ courts on this one, and we’re hoping for the sake of users and devs alike that it’s not plan to take many sleepless nights of re-coding and debugging to get the affected apps back on the straight and narrow.
• We’re at this time hearing some reports of email buffoonery ranging from an inability to add new accounts to 2.1-equipped phones, to failures of existing accounts that had previously worked, to total Exchange breakage. Are you folks seeing anything there? Any corporate types freaking out that they’ve lost access to their beloved ActiveSync setups?

We actually found another bug in 2.1 ourselves: we can’t find copy / paste anywhere. It’s anyone’s guess how that one slipped by the testers.

[Thanks to everyone who sent these in]

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