Derrick’s Musings

It appears that all the predictions of a Friday release for the iPhone 2.1 update were correct. According to the Apple Software Update page, the update fixes or adds the following:

• 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

I am upgrading from 2.0.2 and the update for me clocks in at 237.8 MB. It looks like this will fix my annoying slow keyboard problem, but we shall see.