“British reviewers who have tested the Apple iPhone that goes on sale in the U.K. Friday report that it comes pre-installed with a software update — 1.1.2 — that disables third-party applications,” Phillip Elmer-Dewitt reports for Fortune.
“According to the British gadget website T3, the update closes the so-called TIFF exploit — the software loophole used by hackers to ‘jailbreak’ version 1.1.1,” Elmer-Dewitt reports. “The update is also likely to disable — and perhaps re-brick — iPhones unlocked to work with cellular providers other than Apple’s official carriers (AT&T in the U.S., O2 in the U.K., T-Mobile in Germany and Orange in France).”
“Apple would undoubtedly prefer that everybody wait until it releases its official iPhone software developers kit (SDK) in February, and Apple-sanctioned apps start to flow in,” Elmer-Dewitt reports.
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MacRumors reports that they’ve “independently heard that iPhone Firmware 1.1.2 is destined to arrive upon the European launch of the iPhone later this week.”
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T3 reports, “There are plenty of cool new changes that will make Apple’s cell a truly global affair. First off, there’s support for dozens of languages, so if you happen to be a fluent Cantonese speaker, the phone has all the relevant character sets so you can display your language properly.”
“There’s full support for French and German, with special keyboard lay-outs on the ready to tackle accented characters – perfectly understandable, of course, what with the phone heading for launch across the channel this month too,” T3 reports. “And then there’s access to The Cloud WiFi hotspots, which is already available to iPod Touch customers.”
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