If you have any iPhone, you can now go get version 2.1 of the firmware, which Apple promises will fix a LOT of bugs.
The official changelog from Apple is below.
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iPhone version 2.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
- decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
- significantly improved 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 if you have lots of 3rd 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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We’re still a few days away from the 2.1 update for the iPhone, but it was released for the iPod Touch tonight. Â A few nice tidbits, which should apply to the iPhone update when it comes out:
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- The whole system feels much faster.
- Playlists now show the album/artist in addition to the song title (see screenshot to the right).
- The “shake to shuffle” that was introduced for the Nano is not included.
- Genius playlists are in, as long as you have enabled them in iTunes.
- Apps install much faster — “almost like they do in the Apple adverts”.
- Updated apps keep their same location. Â Yes! Â This has been driving me nuts.
That’s about it. Â Many of the iPhone updates are phone specfic (dropped calls, 3G connection, etc), so we’ll see about those on Friday. Â It’s sounding good so far, though!
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It appears that the iPhone’s much-heralded background push notification might show up with the version 2.1 firmware. I had assumed that it would be there with 2.0, but that’s not been the case.
Background push notification is a pretty slick concept. It allows applications to receive small updates even when they’re not running. For example, a gmail app could receive updates that tell me how many new messages I have, and a small icon would appear above the gmail icon. You can see how it looks with the Facebook app in the screenshot to the right.
Of course, the Facebook icon can only update after you run the application and it can check your inbox status, which kind of defeats the purpose of it. Hopefully this update gets this feature off the ground, because it will be very useful for a lot of apps.
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If you go download the latest version of iTunes (7.7), you can now browse and download applications for your iPhone and iPod Touch. Of course, you can’t load them yet because the new firmware hasn’t been released, but that is expected by about noon EST today.
There are over 500 applications available, including 135 free ones. I’m quite disappointed to not see much from Google (I was hoping for Gmail, Reader, etc), but overall there is some good stuff.
Personally, I’m pleased to see applications like Evernote and SmugShot in there, along with the expected ones like the Facebook app. What do you see that really grabs your attention?
Dang, I really need an iPhone now…
(via TechCrunch)
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