iPhone 2.1 firmware is live... NOW!
We said it was coming later. Just not much later...
Having just written a news story about the iPhone 2.1 firmware going live today, I clicked on the 'Update' button in iTunes, and it's available to download, as a 237.8MB file from iTunes.
Here's the official info on what improvements are in it (I've bolded the most relevant for gaming):
"iPhone version 2.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
- decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
- significantly improved 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 if you have lots of 3rd 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 atttempts
- Genius playlist creatio
Get in! The update is available for download now, and if you're here in Europe, you might want to nab it now, before the US wakes up.
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)