The Apple iPhone software update is now available. The iPhone 2.1
software update contains many bug fixes and improvements. To get it,
connect your iPhone to your computer using iTunes 8 and click Check for Update.
Update includes:
- 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
Chicago live blogger Scott Klienberg noted, "OMG!!! ... Downloaded Air Sharing application from app store over 3G. 8 seconds. 8 seconds!!!!!!!"
It looks like the patch is working.