Today’s release of Apple’s 2.1 firmware for the iPhone was released earlier, so head to your nearest computer and download it, if you value your phone! According to the pop-up, It’s got a host of fixes and updates including decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls, faster installation of 3rd party apps, and a whole lot more. Check the list below!
- 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 (in case you missed the beep the 1st time)
- Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
- Genius playlist creation
Source: tuaw
