Screens as well as a Youtube video from the upcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware are now available, courtesy of Hackintosh. Visible changes include Exchange Support, the App Store, Parental Controls, SDK Support, the calculator is more advanced, CISCO VPN support, Mail mass deletion. No contacts Spotlight Search icon though.

Just days ago, the iPhone Dev Team published a screenshot of what looked like a jailbroken iPhone 2.0 installation. Apple has only released the beta of 2.0 to a limited number of developers, particularly those entering the company's developer program ($99/year).

"The iPhone Dev Team, who rumor has it just last night got ahold of the new firmware that ships with the SDK (1.2, which will be released to public as 2.0), has already decrypted the disk image and jailbroken the firmware," said poetic_folly up on modmyifone.com. "This image shows screenshots of apps running on the 1.2 firmware, which requires a dev certificate to do normally, although none have yet been issued. The jailbreak currently only works with hacked activation, meaning it won't work with AT&T iPhone's yet. However, come on, this is like 2 hours ago it happened, you AT&T folk won't be left in the cold," the post ends.

iPhone firmware 2.0 is due out this June, bringing tons of new features and enhancements. The App Store will be used by Apple to distribute apps and games, but there will be limitations, and although the vast iPhone developer community has received somewhat of a blow with the arrival of the SDK, it doesn't mean the hacking will stop here.

As for the Microsoft Exchange support, it is only of eleven requested enterprise iPhone features part of the software update due out this summer. Apple is set to make firmware 2.0 available to iPhone and iPod touch users in June. The 2.0 firmware update will be free to iPhone users, while a nominal fee will be charged to iPod touch users.



Via MacRumors