More Rumors: Flash, Clipboard & iChat?
by Eric March on February 18, 2008 at 5:29 pm
iPod Touch Fans user H3X (via xxDriveNxx) just tipped me off to an alleged survey conducted by European telecom company Orange, and supposedly commissioned by Apple. A call to Orange France’s customer service by Hardmac contributor Quentin turned up some revealing tidbits about the next update to the iPhone and iPod Touch:
I am sending you an email to announce a survey by Apple.
A call to Orange France customer service gave some confirmations, some answers, some expected, others less so …
– Update 2 (this would be the correct name, not 1.1.4), will bring new features:
* Support for Flash, files with extension .Docx
* Adding a mini file manager
* Adding a “clipboard” to manage copied and pasted text, and send files to the clipboard via email or bluetooth
* iClips Management (is this the name of apps distributed via iTunes?)
* A more complete bluetooth manager
* iChat accessible only via wifi– But it would not bring:
* Management of MMS
* Video capture
* Editing of office filesIt is almost impossible to know if this is reliable information from an employee of Orange who carried out this survey … .
But one thing is certain, the survey was commissioned by Apple … And the updating of firmwire will be out in a few days …
Like the man said, the veracity of this information is questionable, and at this stage of the game it isn’t unusual for uncorroborated and sometimes completely fabricated rumours fly, but it will be interesting nevertheless to see how accurate this turns out to be. We can only sit tight for another week or two before we will know for sure.
(Source: MacThemes, via Hardmac, and thanks to H3X and xxDriveNxx for the tip)
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