Apple doesn’t typically rush the release of a product. That is something that most Apple product fans appreciate as a good alternative to the Microsoft model of service pack 1, 2, 3, etc.
However, when the iPhone 2.0 software update was released, it was done prematurely. There were a large number of complaints that came out with the release of this software update (which was included in the new iPhone 3G model). In fact, there were a lot of new bugs in 2.0 on features that were there in 1.x already. Basically, they had messed these features up. And the highly anticipated third party app support was very difficult to work with since those apps had a tendency to take forever to install and crashed frequently.
Apple finally got it right by releasing their iPhone 2.1 software update. If you have an iPhone and have not updated to this version, do it now! It does take that long and you’ll feel like you got a new and improved iPhone instantly.
Here is a summary of what the 2.1 update includes:
- 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
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