First and foremost, I forgot to mention that upon deleting an application straight from your iPhone, you have the option to rate it as well. Nice touch if you aren’t keen on writing an iTunes review but you really think Twinkle is an annoying Twitter app. To keep this both simple and consistent, I’ll list off my impressions as I listed the features in the 2.2 update:
- Google Street View is meaningless to me (and many other Torontonians) because it is only available for the major US cities.
- Public transit isn’t available either, however walking directions is a nice way of knowing of not only how to walk somewhere, but how to get somewhere by avoiding the highway.
- Pressing the Home button at any screen will take you to the first page of your many screens. This is an AWESOME feature and something I’m really getting used to. No more scrolling back 7 pages to change my playlist.
- Downloading podcasts over the fly is a great feature. I don’t think I will have much use for it now, but it’s a great thing to know that you CAN do, in case you don’t have your laptop attached to you always like a malignant tumor.
- Safari seems to be much more crisp and stable. The Google search bar is now in the same bar as the URL which is nice. I managed to open several image heavy pages and not have it crash on me. Who knows if it fixed EVERYTHING, but realistically speaking, it seems to work well enough to serve my needs.
Overall, this is a great update for the iPhone. However, it’s been four months without cross-app copy/paste functionality. Four months without the ability to sync notes. Four months without the ability to send/recieve picture messages. I really hope Apple doesn’t pull a fast one and just save those features strictly for the next iteration of the iPhone.
