iPhone 2.1 Firmware Now Available

Posted on 12 September 2008 by


It appears that the new iPhone 2.1 firmware is available as of 9am Eastern time.

According to Apple, the following things are in this release:

- decrease in call set-up failures andcall drops
- significantly improve battery life for most users
- dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
- improve email reliability, notable fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
- faster installation of 3rd party applications
- fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes if you have lots of 3rd party applications
- improved performance of text messaging
- faster loading and searching of contacts
- improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
- repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
- option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
- Genius playlist creation

You can learn more about the update  by going here on the Apple web site.

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  • http://www.s-consult.com/index.php Wayne Schulz

    Upgraded to 2.1

    Totally eliminate App Crashes – nope.

    Does it feel more stable?

    Yup.

    But it always does for the first day or two.

    I think most people are going to wait to compare notes after a week or two of use.

    Backup time does seem faster. In the last week I was hit by the “slow backup” disease which kicked my backups to 1hr+ in length (prior to that they were fast). Now my backups are under a minute.

    Jury is still out — suspect that this will go down as yet another bug fix.

    As I read elsewhere online — I wish other phone manufcturers would put out this many updates to correct issues with their phones as Apple has…