iPhone firmware 2.1 is out, available through iTunes
Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Jonathan Friedman
Just as promised, Apple released the iPhone 2.1 firmware this morning. Apple’s shows that the update contains big improvements. The list on Apple’s iPhone software update website reads:
- 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
The update is a whopping 237.8 MB, so go get to updating. Just plug your iPhone into your computer and press “Check for Update” in iTunes 8.
