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"Friday is the day"...iPhone OS 2.1...tomorrow!
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Steve Jobs says it will be released on Friday which you then doubt.
Someone at WalMart tells you it will be released on Friday and you're ecstatic?
How do you have it? and notice any new features? or is it finally stable? Just curious.
Not many new features except for Genius and the Music app is a little different (artist shows underneath albums when browsing).
Umm....
It's a LOT faster... feels like 1.1.2 days.
Don't expect new features though. It is more stable too.
Umm.....
Wifi got stronger. I can now pick up a Linksys router that is in my neighbor's house that I couldn't see with 2.0.
Oh, and I have the update because I own an iPod touch and an iPhone
Oh, and the correction bubbles in AIM.app now appear above the words, making it easier to type.
Is it really an update if it makes the phone as it should have beeen on July 11? 2.1 update is a joke, no wonder the stock dipped that day. iPod news was no news at all.
Where is the GD GPS? We demand such a feature. Nokia, HTC and many other phones have it, why does iPhone not have turn by turn GPS?
OK, now it's the cue from some (man) people stuck in the Jobsian fog to write how I aim too high, I don't apppreciate what I have and don't deserve the iPhone. OK guys, let me have it.
Tools.
Where is the GD GPS? We demand such a feature. Nokia, HTC and many other phones have it, why does iPhone not have turn by turn GPS?
OK, now it's the cue from some (man) people stuck in the Jobsian fog to write how I aim too high, I don't apppreciate what I have and don't deserve the iPhone. OK guys, let me have it.
Tools.
I disagree. i still think theres a slim possibility of hidden features. If he had mentioned anything more about the iphone update, ipod updates would have been lost in the newspapers and media. So now theres a few days of Ipod headlines and if new stuff are released tomorrow, it will be a news item as well, probably more so since it was a surprise.
That said, I have little to no hope of secret or new features, im just saying its possible from a PR prospective why he didn't mention it.
I plan on avoiding it for the first week and seeing how people react to it on the forums.
Better to let the early adopters find the bugs than to be plagued with them myself.
I plan on avoiding it for a few days as well. When I upgraded to 2.0 the servers were hit so hard that my phone was bricked for 3-4 hours. I don't want to go through that again.
If I remember correctly, when you plug in your phone and it finds the update on the servers - you have the option to just download the update and not install it right away.
Steve Jobs says it will be released on Friday which you then doubt.
Someone at WalMart tells you it will be released on Friday and you're ecstatic?
I think he was being sarcastic.
Thank god for that although people really should put sarcasm signs in their posts.
Yes, I realize that. But if I'm not going to install it right away, what is the rush to download it?
it's like having a whole new device. You get so used to the crappy 2.0.2 that once you upgrade to 2.1 it's such a breath of fresh air. I don't even care about the lack of new features because this is nice.
By the way, I typed this on 2.1. No lag.
Was that sarcastic? In the UK we just basically assume that everything anyone ever says is sarcastic (and we're usually right).Thank god for that although people really should put sarcasm signs in their posts.
Better power management? Software that allows the CPU to go through less cycles when needed? I'm sure there are ways.
My iPhone was in the same room when I watched Steve Jobs announce 2.1. The iPhone definitely seems zippier now with less lag.
2.1 better fix the issue with dropping calls in 3G. I am getting very frustrated. There better be no more issues with apps crashing and lagging while typing SMS.
This is what I am wondering as well. Of course no one really knows. I am kinda surprised Arn hasn't posted anything about it. I hope it will be though. It would make sense to kinda roll it out with the time zones so as to not overburden the Apple servers all at once. I know I have tomorrow morning off so I will be checking at midnight.
I read the live blog from my iPhone and my Safari has been snappier ever since.