I hope this is true. It has been a long time waiting on this.
Can't believe this was even posted. Look at the shadow under the badges, the shadow isn't nearly that black on actual badges, they've just made it solid black because they're too crap to draw shadows properly (and too crap to apply fake badges via jailbreak too).
Horrendously fake, ignore.
(Also, can confirm there is no developer betas at this time)
In case anyone is wondering, I went ahead and jailbroke my iPod touch for this thread to swap the icons for Mail and Notes to see how a badge would REALLY look on Notes WITHOUT Photoshopping to shut up those who are screaming Photoshop on this. Here is a screenshot I took.
I swear to you that this screenshot is legit. It's 2.2 with Mail and Notes icons swapped... so Notes is actually just MobileMail.app in disguise.
To me, it makes little sense to have a badge appear on the Notes app if it is being synced, which makes me a little sceptical.
The Contacts app acts in the same manner now as we would expect the Notes app to behave if it were synced over MobileMe, and there is no need to badge the Contacts app.
Users would not need to be notified of new Notes being pushed to the phone, because they were created by the user themselves on their Mac. Only if Notes were RSS capable or fetching non-user generated Notes would this be necessary, I think?
Dude, the author of this "news" himself has confirmed it is NOT TRUE. You can keep hoping if you just don't want to face the reality...
Actually, I think it's the same site that gave us the CONFIRMED rumor that 2.2 was coming in 10 days.