Is Apple About to Fix Podcasts on the iPhone?

We’ve already brought you a couple of ‘previews‘ of some of the new features which have been found in the beta iPhone OS 2.2, and while Google Street View is all very well and good, for me personally this latest is the most eagerly awaited of them all. The Unofficial Apple Weblog has got its hands on a screenshot — nicked reproduced here — which appears to show over-the-air downloading of podcasts. And it’s about time, too.

You’ll remember that at the time Podcaster was denied entry to the App Store, Apple cited as reason that it reproduced features found in iTunes. This prompted many people to speculate that at some point in the not too distant future you would be able to download podcasts without connecting to your desktop Mac. Well, if this image is genuine then it looks like that speculation was correct.

Now let’s just hope they’ve added the ability to delete podcasts, too.

• TUAW