According to Gizmodo’s inside sources, the upcoming iPhone 2.0 firmware will hit Gold Master (ready for public release) this Friday. This is only a tentative ‘planned’ date, but it would be great for developers to get a final version of the software a while before iPhone 3G launch. Now this Gold Master date doesn’t necessarily mean the public will get the firmware on Friday, but it is a confirmation that Apple is on the path for release. Another doubt that the public will get the firmware early: Apple tentatively had a late-June release for 2.0 back in March, but at WWDC the release was pushed to early July. Unless the developers made major progress in the two weeks we’ve had since WWDC, Apple’s probably not going to switch the release back to late-June.

In other iPhone 2.0 news: the new firmware will apparently include a full data reset feature unlike the current. Incase you didn’t know, when you do a data reset on iPhone now, not all of your data is gone. Bits and pieces of data can be recovered causing some security issues if you sell your phone. The new firmware’s data reset feature has been beefed up and will actually erase all data, unlink the remains, and overwrite files to completely leave no traces: for even more proof of a full reset, the new reset will take around an hour to complete. 

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