Apple Releases iPhone 2.1 Software Update

Submitted by lalit on September 12, 2008 - 9:12am.

Apple today released iPhone 2.1 software update, as it had promised on Tuesday. Moving away from it normal practices, Apple have also give a list of improvements that the new software brings. According to the release note, 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

The update seriously looks promising; we will let you know how our iPhones are working after updating and testing the software for few of the above-mentioned problems that we were also facing. You can download the update by plugging your iPhone to your computer and then clicking “check for update” in iTunes. And don’t forget to update you iTunes to the latest 8.0 version also.

 

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