Filed under: Software Update, iPhone
iPhone 2.1 firmware out now
As announced on Tuesday, the iPhone 2.1 firmware is out now, downloadable via iTunes.According to Apple's website, updates include:
- 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 (in case you missed the beep the 1st time)
- Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
- Genius playlist creation
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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