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iPhone 2.1 Software Update Now Available
- st3fan 18y agoWow i can finally browse my contacts without having to wait a minute for the damn thing to load.
- zzzmarcus 18y agoPlease, please tell me that is true. As it is, it's embarrassing..."let me just add you to my address book... just a second. ok hang on... erm. got a pen?"
- jwilliams 18y agoYeah... that was a great improvement in 2.0 to 2.02... instead of contacts pausing for a minute when it displayed, it paused for a minute before it displayed. Great. 2.1 seems much better so far.
- gstar 18y agoWhat's amazing about this update is that Apple has included a what's new. FINALLY!
- jedc 18y agoPreviously they probably didn't want to promise something that might not work. With all the recent high-profile problems they probably feel they finally have to. I agree, about time!
- nanijoe 18y agoumm..it is still showing 2.02
- evgen 18y agoUpdate your iTunes.
- yan 18y agoI have been waiting for this for a long time. 2.0.2 drops calls like that was its intent.
- martythemaniak 18y agoHey, you know what's a radical new idea? Shipping production-quality software when you make a new release! Just imagine for a sec... company releases a new product and instead of a POS beta-quality software, you get a decently-working software. I have OS 2.0 right now and yes, despite what Apple may say it IS beta software and it is embarrassingly slow and laggy.
- yan 18y agoThe other extreme is to ship production-quality software and call it beta. (Ahem.. gmail)
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoI'd rather see more of Google's strategy. At least it actually works...
- gcv 18y agoWhatever happened to "release early, release often?" Or does that only apply to startups?
- elq 18y agohrm. I'd personally prefer a phone that actually worked.
- lallysingh 18y agoAgreed. But, it is tough in some markets where it's very difficult to test many of the customer configurations that can mess things up. Like anything on Windows that's sensitive to DLLs. On mac os, there's little excuse. On a hardware platform you built yourself, and have full control over, there isn't an excuse. Just failure.
- palish 18y agoIt's hardly a failure. Just because the phone has bugs doesn't mean it isn't useful. It's very handy to have a mobile phonebook with maps, for example. The reality is that software doesn't have to be bug-free to be successful. That's not to say bugs shouldn't be fixed. However, features are more important than fixing every bug. Perfectionism has claimed the life of more software projects than we know; we just don't hear about the fate of the true failures.
- josefresco 18y agoIn related news.. ""Apple has responded quickly to reports that its initial release of iTunes 8 caused STOP errors on some Windows machines" Anyone else find that statement gloriously ironic?
- ngvrnd 18y agoYeah. Now if they would fix my macbook's itunes crash... Off to the "Genius bar", I suppose.
- dustineichler 18y agoI tried to do this in the morning, it hung for about 30mins.
- ngvrnd 18y agoYes, this upgrade is the reason I upgraded iTunes to 8.0, as the installer said I had to in order to get the iPhone upgrade. Sadly, as noted elsewhere, my itunes install is now borked. Thanks, Apple!
- comatose_kid 18y agoThe biggest problem - no push notification.
- lallysingh 18y agoFYI you need iTunes 8 to see the iPhone 2.1 software update. ....yeah.
- pchristensen 18y agoI got it on Wednesday for my iPod Touch. I like how there's more information like duration, album in the song lists, podcasts, etc.
- Frocer 18y agoThank goodness they fixed the dropped call problem, I was seriously considering to return the phone because my calls got dropped so much. And I would love it if they could somehow amplify the speakerphone functionality too... it's got to be the quietest speakerphone I have ever used
- rubymaverick 18y agoI'm just glad someone finally used the correct capitalization for iPhone.