Apple just announced firmware 2.1 for the iPhone and iPod touch and it's claimed that no more crashes will ever occur with the new update. This new update brings enormous improvements on the overall performances which include the promise of fewer dropped calls, big battery improvement, and faster backups. While it sounds too good to be true let us see what people find about this new update.
Fewer dropped calls - 40 percent of Wired.com readers report that they're getting fewer dropped calls than they did before the update.
Increased 3G download speeds - Donovan Lewis, the administrator of Test My iPhone reported that more iPhone users enjoy better better download speed after the upgrade with the occasions of people getting speed between 100kbps - 300kbps is fewer after the update.
More bars and better reception - Everyone that has applied the update seem to generally agree that they get better receptions.
Find more about iPhone users experience over at Wired.
Here's the full features of the iPhone 2.1 software
- 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
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