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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.

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We’ve just installed the excellent WPTouch plug-in on this blog, making it look great when viewed from an iPhone or iPod Touch. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Mickey

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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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