Phone 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
Today Apple publicly released the new firmware for the iPhone. It promises to solve many of the issues we were having since the firmware 2.0 and iPhone 3G were released.
Personally, I'm really disatisfied with battery life, in iPhone 3G is clearly inferior to battery life on my previous 8G iPhone. Backup times are really long, but I can live with that, after more than 10 years of regular Palm hotsyncs I get used to plan the best moment to do it, but it's for sure that iPhone must have a faster backup. And I have a lot 3rd party applications, about 40 from AppStore and another 20 from Cydia, and I experienced the hangs caused by the firmware, you get stuck in the Apple logo and you need to ssh from Mac to kill the buggy processes in order to get a proper reboot.
Apple claims these 3 issues, and the always welcome performance improvements, are solved with the new firmware. I hope so, I really like this portable computer and I plan to keep using it a lot for personal management, software development, movie watching, internet browsing, and game playing. Ah! And for making phone calls too! :-)
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