iPhone 2.1 available
September 12th 2008
During Tuesday's Let's Rock special event, Steve Jobs said iPhone 2.1 would address a range of nagging stability and performance afflicting the 3G handset. Some say Mssr Jobs was visibly irritated when he spoke on the subject.
Whatever the case, Steve promised the update would be available today and the company has indeed posted iPhone 2.1 (vis Engadget, which is said to offer the following:
• Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
• Significantly better battery life for most users
• Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
• Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
• Faster installation of 3rd party applications
• Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
• Improved performance in 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
iPhone 2.1 requires iTunes 8--download it, connect your iPhone and then get the update.
Post your impressions of what's fixed, and what's not, in the comment below...
