iPhone 2.1 Firmware Now Available
Posted on 12 September 2008, at 8:58 am, by Christopher Gavula
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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1 Comments For This Post
September 13th, 2008 at 4:15 am
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…