iPhone 2.1 Update Brings Speed, Battery & Call Boosts

Author	Gordon Kelly
Published	14th Sep 2008

iPhone 2.1 Update Brings Speed, Battery & Call Boosts

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Little was made of the iPhone at Apple's Let's Whimper Let's Rock event last week, but the back end of Friday afternoon did at least see the handset's anticipated 2.1 firmware released to end users...

So what can we expect to see? Well, it is tweaks again primarily according to the official Apple list:

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

That said, the Cupertino based company is known to slide little nuggets of gold in now and again to fuel water cooler talk so have a dig around once you've updated.

Cut and paste? Now, now, that's just foolish talk.

Oh and yes, it's already jailbroken. If that's your bag then you know where to look...

Link:
iPhone 2.1 Software Update

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xbrumster said on 15th September 2008

love you babe..
gonna try to update & jailbreak it later on today.. wish me luck!

Oliver Levett said on 15th September 2008

At least Apple have admitted that 2 crashed a bit, and had dodgy reception. And at least you lot have now realised that the iPhone was not as perfect as you made out, although no d... more

Gordon said on 15th September 2008

@Oliver - which is why updates come out on a regular basis.

We totally stand by our iPhone 3G review incidentally, no sure where you got any other viewpoint from. I... more