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As you may or may not know, up to and including iPhone firmware 3.1.3 there has been a keyboard shortcut for adding .org, .edu and .net by pressing and holding the .com button. Unfortunately there has never been an option for foreign site extensions, such as .co.nz. Well here’s some good news and may I say something that has been a long time coming.
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A while back, and I am talking back in the days of the iPhone 2G, I created a keyboard hack that allowed you to insert “.co.nz” by pressing and holding the “.com” key on the iPhone keyboard.
This was an absolute nightmare to do and each time the firmware was updated I would have to re-create it. In the end I gave up trying to chase it just for the sake of not typing .co.nz.
Well, two iPhone generations later and countless numbers of updates I have just found a little gem hiding in the 4.0 keyboard.
Can you see the difference between the two screen shots.
Spot the difference
What do you think, is this something you have been waiting for? Let us know what you think in the comments below.
I discovered this today too! Very excited, something that I have been wanting for ages!
(Allan has made 42 comments)
Yes! I often have hit the {.com} button then {backspace . n z} to save typing. Roll on OS4.
(leStar has made 63 comments)
Oh thank god – been waiting for that for well over a year.
By the way, is there an option in the language settings to select any non-US version of English? -ise etc. always getting changed to -ize is frustrating.
(B Gallagher has made 71 comments)
that ones been there since beta 3
(Xt3rminater has made 29 comments)
@ Xt3rminater: ah thanks! I was wondering which beta it showed up in.
Interesting. Didn’t know about the shortcut, but min has .co.uk!! Bought the phone from Apple on-line over here.
(irncpl has made 31 comments)
just as an open question does the new beta of mobileme support the os4.0 cause i need to find my iphone and i have no support for os 4.0 in the normal mobile me
(Xt3rminater has made 29 comments)
Unfortunately not. It is only the mail section that has been changed to beta. The rest of MobileMe is the standard version