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iPhone 2.1 Firmware Now Available
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Man that was a long back up. lol My apps work again!!!!!! I have my music and video's back too!!!! Whooooooooooo!!!! 
So far so good.
So far so good. 
Nice, just in time for Ike.
The extra battery life will come in handy if/when we lose our power (I live in Houston near downtown and there is a possibility that the eye will pass right over us!).
The extra battery life will come in handy if/when we lose our power (I live in Houston near downtown and there is a possibility that the eye will pass right over us!).
Just installed 2.1, picked up my iPhone and...I swear it's thinner now!
Very, very good! Post of the day.
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Probably because they only had to add a few lines of code or something. Repeating an alert would be much easier than the whole copy/paste thing. At least I think
Did it ever occur to any of you that your 3G is slow because every iPhone user in the world is running speedtest and browsing and whatnot to test the new software?
Not to mention the fact that the speed and reception will not improve until ALL iphone users update, which could take weeks.
Not to mention the fact that the speed and reception will not improve until ALL iphone users update, which could take weeks.
Just updated and it shows a stronger signal as well. I just compared with my buddy's 2.0 iphone, and I have two more bars. We ran iphone speed test and got nearly the same results. I think the iphone is just adding two bars to the actual signal. If it is truly boosting the signal, I'd expect shorter life on the batter charge.
Slow
I'm noticing that its slow, and unresponsive at times. Here are two pictures of the interface when it froze up just trying to first, get out of Safari back to the main interface. As you can see, the page moved to vertical but the title bar stayed horizontal. Then wanted to go back into Safari and sat for about 40 seconds and you can see Safari is chosen, just not going anywhere. This isn't happening all the time, sometimes the programs are fast, other times they are dead slow.
I'm noticing that its slow, and unresponsive at times. Here are two pictures of the interface when it froze up just trying to first, get out of Safari back to the main interface. As you can see, the page moved to vertical but the title bar stayed horizontal. Then wanted to go back into Safari and sat for about 40 seconds and you can see Safari is chosen, just not going anywhere. This isn't happening all the time, sometimes the programs are fast, other times they are dead slow.
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Yes, it's like a new battery that needs conditioning.
Only kidding, it's probably just another broken promise.
Interesting I see -91 but that's kind of because I'm on EDGE. Neato application though.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_1 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5F136 Safari/525.20)
downloaded and installed. Back ups are no quicker, apps still won't update properly nor will they install when downloaded from the iPhone app store. However, the genius feature is impressive and I have noticed it all seems that bit faster. Not impressed with the apps but pleased with the speed.
downloaded and installed. Back ups are no quicker, apps still won't update properly nor will they install when downloaded from the iPhone app store. However, the genius feature is impressive and I have noticed it all seems that bit faster. Not impressed with the apps but pleased with the speed.
Unbelievable...I'm in shock...ever since I got this phone (3G) and seen the cowardly way in-which Apple has handled the reception issues I'm afraid I am starting to lose my long standing faith in Apple...and Wall St seems to agree with me. Sad SAD day; this last pathetic move, which pretty much amounts to Apple DECEIVING its customers by MISLEADING them to believe they have a FULL SIGNAL where in reality -95dbquoted by a user to amount to full bars in 2.1is a weak signal that yields poor call quality and data speeds.
update
just did the update. This is what I noticed so far:
-Back up is much faster. I have a macbook so it would obviously faster for macs, not sure about PC's.
-no lag in between going to home screen and applications.
-less lag between going through phonebook, keypad, and favorites. It's not lighting fast, but faster than before.
Wait and See:
-we'll see how the battery really is.
just did the update. This is what I noticed so far:
-Back up is much faster. I have a macbook so it would obviously faster for macs, not sure about PC's.
-no lag in between going to home screen and applications.
-less lag between going through phonebook, keypad, and favorites. It's not lighting fast, but faster than before.
Wait and See:
-we'll see how the battery really is.
So.... Apple is lying to you because some random joe on a web forum who has no connection to the Apple iPhone team told you so? That's great logic there buddy.
How is your call quality? That is what is important. I'm afraid that how many bars you have has very little to do with how fast of a speed you will get with data since that depends more on network congestion than signal strength although that can play a factor as well.
Cellular data has more in common with a cable internet provider with a lot of people in an area than DSL. The latter is a dedicated connection to the internet while the former is shared by all people on the same node. The more nodes (towers) you have in in an area will give you a chance to have higher speeds assuming that those towers themselves are not sharing the same hardline to the wireless provider ISP infrastructure.
Piss off.
MMS was new in late 2003. You needed a Sony Ericsson T68i and the add-on camera. The camera wouldn't do video.
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Based on reading quite a few responses here-the update does not seem compelling-I am still at 2.0.1 (jailbroken). Doesn't seem like any reason to upgrade for me...
Based on reading quite a few responses here-the update does not seem compelling-I am still at 2.0.1 (jailbroken). Doesn't seem like any reason to upgrade for me...
It's what the message board is. If you don't like it don't read it. Otherwise, stop critiquing people's posts.
That is why I drive a Corvette -- 30+mpg highway -- that, and the fact it's not a Prius.That is why I drive a Prius.
Wow some really useful features here!
What ever happened to apple giving us a big feature every few updates!?
We still don't have:
video
copy n paste
Sending & receiving of bluetooth files
along with many other BASIC functions.
I came home expecting something spectacular no just bug updates great!
I'm getting the name on the txt popup -- sent myself a txt and had a bud send one. I cannot get the repeat reminder to happen though. (Probably because I'm sitting here staring at the phone...)
I might be misunderstanding you though...