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and now, some good news
Posted by | Posted in iphone, tech | Posted on 23-09-2008
It may be trivial and a couple of weeks late, but it will make for a good diversion. Let’s talk about the iPhone 2.1 software update and how it has stopped my recent really bad cursing habit.
I was looking forward to some new cool features in the 2.1 update (cut/paste) but they weren’t introduced. But what I really, really wanted was to fix the damn problems. See, there goes the cursing again. My biggest hangups were: looooooooong backup times, apps crashing, redonk times in downloading & initializing new apps and was there anything else? Battery life, whatever, I’m constantly recharging this thing because I’m constantly playing with it and therefore depleting its charge, and dropped calls, yeah, like I even use this thing as a phone. Although it has been know to ring upon occasion.
So.
Here’s what Apple promises with the new ‘date:
- 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