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It was only visible for a few moments, but eagle-eyed blarg Kaboom blog author Daniel Ahdout noticed something interesting while Apple's Phil Schiller was busy talking up the new enterprise features coming to iPhone at a meeting last week.
If you look at the 9:30 mark of Apple's own Quicktime video of the SDK event, you'll notice a tiny little magnifying glass appear above the contact list. Similar to the spotlight icon in OS X, this would seem to mean Apple is finally getting ready to include search functionality with its next firmware update.
It's about time. While iPhone users have been pining for a (more useful) way to way to comb through their contacts since the phone was released, a new enterprise-friendly iPhone would all but necessitate this kind of feature given that contact lists would likely swell to the thousands for business users.
Strangely, the spotlight icon vanished during the remaining demo. And since we haven't heard anything about new icons from developers who already have access to the beta version of iPhone software development kit, it's likely Apple simply slipped up and showcased a feature that wasn't quite ready.
Hopefully, any new search feature in the official firmware 2.0 update will include not only contacts, but also data within calendars, e-mail messages and, as Epicenter reader Gary points out below, music searching.
Now, how about a way to delete more than one e-mail message at a time, Apple?
[blarg Kaboom via AppleInsider]
