With the iPhone 3.1 update little things mean a lot

The 3.1 update has resulted in a number of bugs with Voice Control and with Bluetooth.

If you have the iPhone plugged into the car stereo, before you could press voice command and it would use the microphone and built-in speaker for prompts. Now there is no voice prompt or acknowledgement (or warning that it mistook asking to play playlist soft rock for a command to call someone you dated 4 years ago and didn't know her number was still in your phone book).

When you placed a call and didn't have your bluetooth on, it used to use your car speakers as a hands-free, now it uses the iphone.

It also drops the connection to the bluetooth often.

Sadly, the POS voice control STILL dose not use the phonetic fields (or nick names) and is pretty dam brainless for anything more complex the Joe Smith.

The annoying high-pitched sound that played after every sound on the iPhone 3GS is gone with 3.1!

Why is it not possible to wipe (delete calls) from the recent calls list like you can delete texts?

iPhone 3.1 fixes my bluetooth headset!

I have a Philips SHB6100, and previously it would work for calls, but a2dp didn't work (even in iPhone 3.0) - it would only do phone calls.
I tried it just now and stereo works for the first time.

Well... almost. The play/pause works, volume controls work, but track prev/next do not. I can live with that.

But what's most odd is that as soon as the display turns off, bluetooth cuts out, and I get about 0.25s of music every 5 or 6 seconds. As soon as I press a hardware button, and the screen comes back, it carries on playing normally. It's extremely strange.

Steve.

It fixes the high pitched whine !!!! Well masks it anyway. Not bad considering this was never acknowledged by Apple

I'm still waiting for Apple to fix the dithering/compression problem on images you upload to the iPhone. I just can't believe that a company so devoted to audio visual perfection, on a multimedia phone, dithers or compresses every picture besides the wallpapers that came with the phone. The only way to get a decent wallpaper is to make one at 960x640, transfer it via Safari, and scale it down so that the JPEG compression that Safari adds is unnoticeable. They changed iTunes enough, all they would have to do is remove a step before uploading the picture.

the changing of the password happened near instant for me...which was nice. i can always use that feature if someone borrows my phone and tries to change it. Obviously now if someone got in to my me.com account they could change it that way ha...

@emil

Quite the opposite in fact for me. Since moving to 3.1 on my 3G, it's near-instant. During start-up & shut-down, I have seen HUGE improvements (Not that it was unusable before under 3.0, but it definitely slowed down since 2.2.x), The first time I go into Spotlight after turning on the phone is still a bit slow, but nothing to get too worried about. Even though it's kind of a non-event for me, MMS will be nice to have when it comes on the 25th - My last phone, (a Motorola V551) shipped w/o a data plan so MMS or SMS was insanely expensive to do.

Overall, I'm extremely pleased with how the upgrade has gone.

Is voice calling still limited to the 3GS?