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The latest speculation surrounding the impending version 1.1.3 firmware for iPhone is that it will, at long last, contain the highly sought after cut and paste functionality.

WIRED magazine, in their Gadget Lab, take a suitably sarcastic tone in reporting the “news” lifted from MacScoop:

“Called Copy-and-Paste, this innovative feature lets the user take any piece of text on the screen, select it and then copy it to a temporary memory buffer, which Apple is calling the ClipBoard™. From there, the text can be re-inserted anywhere else. Why would you want this? Well, imagine being able to Copy-and-Paste a piece of a web page into an email, for example. The possibilities are endless. This forward thinking is typical of Apple.”

What isn’t clear, though, is exactly how this feature (presuming it’s genuine) will work. Plenty of people who have bemoaned the iPhone’s lack of such a feature have come up with their own ideas of how it should be done, but Apple will only do it one way.