Derrick’s Musings

My thoughts on a variety of topics

Entries Tagged ‘2.1’

My first impression: iPhone 2.1

After updating my iPhone to v. 2.1, I first noticed that the graphic “E” to indicate being connected to the EDGE network has been inverted. It is now a solid white E against the black background or a solid blue E against the grayish background in most apps. Nothing else ground breaking on the home [...]

iPhone 2.1 update in the wild

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 [...]

Annoying iPhone keyboard bug

Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPhone. But like any device, it does have its shortcomings (read: bugs). One of my chief complaints would have to be this annoying bug where the keyboard will type extremely slow. The “solution” to this problem is to hold the home button and force quit the application, but this [...]