iPhone 2.1 Reactions and Additional Features

[powaking]

I think Genius needs some work. Was playing Santana, Foo Fighters and the like then the track that played right before Led Zeppelin was Britney Spears. Hmmmmm........but for the most part it does a pretty good job.

 

[jambodoug]

AM/PM Bug

If you have this set up, on the Mail app you now get PM x 2 (or AM) next to received mails..and also against the "last updated" message at the bottom of the screen.

 

[The Tall One]

Zuh?

No multi-finder on the ipod?

 

[jayducharme]

The iPhone (and iPod touch) has, I believe, 128MB ram in addition to the flash memory

The flash "memory" is basically the hard drive; it's storage. True, it could be used as virtual memory. But perhaps that's the big problem with allowing background apps: if there really is only 128 mb of "true" memory, processes could start to bog down very quickly, especially if someone fills their iPhone/Touch with lots of data.

Apple really should bump up the base dedicated memory configuration to at least 512mb. When the iPhone ran only Apple's stock apps, memory wasn't an issue since Apple controlled how the apps used it. But now with so many 3rd party apps needing varying amounts of RAM, 128 mb is looking pretty meager.

 

[wildmilne]

without the push feature chat applications are a joke on the iphone.

 

[happydude]

i still have significant keyboard lagging issues

 

[happydude]

i tried to send an MMS and it just gave me an error message saying, "If you would like to send a picture message, please use any other phone made in the last 10 years. We only handle text on this multimedia phone."

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[chitown773]

battery life

It appears as though my battery life has not improved with this update, actually it appears as though it is worse than before. Anyone else experience this problem?

 

[Hattig]

There is enough RAM because your cellphone operations and e-mail are running in the background.

Is there enough to run ten bloated background applications however?

We really don't want the same issues as Windows Mobile.

A single service should be enough. It will listen for messages and understand the destination application so it can attach a notification icon to the application's icon.

As an aside, on a Unix system such as Mac OS X there is a standard way to do these things, it's called inetd. It will run an application when a message comes in from a network on any port. I think that this would be enough for the iPhone - each application that needs network use could also include a small headless application that will be used with inetd, that records the incoming message, updates the icon, maybe shows a notification and quits.

Of course there is the issue of battery life as well. If Apple has a mechanism for notifications that uses significantly less power, or that they can optimise so that it runs fine in the iPhone's low power mode of operation...

 

[cameronjpu]

Apple have 15 days to get push notifications to us before they have officially missed another of their promised deadlines. Apple seems to be really dropping the ball lately. They need to pull up their socks, sort out all of their problems and promises and only then release something new and amazing.

And yet here you are demanding that they release something new and amazing while they've been devoting resources to fixing the bugs in pre 2.1 firmware. You can't have it both ways.

 

[lamar777]

SMS strings

One feature I noticed that may be related to improved SMS is that when text strings get long the whole string is not loaded. There is now a new button if you scroll to the top that says "Load Earlier Messages". The one text string I have doing this displays 50 messages until I hit the button and then it loads more.

 

[Satan Himself]

They have 15 days to give us Push, Copy Paste and Notes Sync.

Or what? You're not delivering an ultimatum here, buddy -- you're just raging against nothing.

 

[eastcoastsurfer]

But perhaps that's the big problem with allowing background apps: if there really is only 128 mb of "true" memory, processes could start to bog down very quickly, especially if someone fills their iPhone/Touch with lots of data.

I had a computer once. It had 16MB of ram and a P100 in it. It had no problems running windows and plenty of other apps. Heck, I upgraded to an MMX proc with 32MB of RAM and could play MP3s, games, office, etc... Given the type of applications involved, the iPhone shouldn't be anywhere near running out of ram.

 

[born4sky]

I'm THRILLED with how much faster typing and contact browsing is.

the funniest thing it's thats how it was with 1.0

 

[born4sky]

Or what? You're not delivering an ultimatum here, buddy -- you're just raging against nothing.

^+1 LOL

 

[cameronjpu]

I wonder if anyone else has noticed that after the 2.1 software update, the sound quality of voicemails seems a bit worse? Not complaining, just wondering if anyone else has noticed anything like this.

Best,
Crandel

Definitely. It is very tinny. Bizarre, as that is the only place I've noticed it.

 

[nate22195]

Stuck on contacts?

On Friday, after the update my iphone (3g 2.1) was stuck on the contacts menu. I was only able to switch between Favorites, Recents, Contacts, Keyboard and VM. Syncing or even trying to turn if off normally would get it off this screen or allow me to move to the home screen. I had to do a reset to finally get the phone working again. Anyone else have this problem? Other than that everything appears to be running smoothly.

 

[lodenmuse]

My iPhone Just Solved World Peace

I don't know what fantasy planet people are living on. Obviously, Apple's marketing department has succeeded marvelously with the 2.1 update.

Meanwhile, in the real world:

• I still have 0-1 bars of 3G in my apartment, with lots of NO SERVICE when passing between Edge and 3G.
• The long freeze opening Contacts is now just a medium freeze. Settings, other apps, etc. still open with a delay, however accessing Contacts from within Phone app is instantaneous.
• Lag when entering text still exists.
• Apps still sometimes crash-close instead of shrink-close.
• Under similar use, battery charge lasts only exactly as long as before.
• The small UI polishes are nice; the Date/Time bug, not so much.

 

[cameronjpu]

How can a recorded message from someone else on someone else's phone be made worse by your own phone?

It has been, very definitely.

 

[mflat5]

Pleased so far

The "mandatory" updates and fixes notwithstanding, I'm highly pleased with the last update.

I don't care so much about Push (battery drain), but copy / paste would be great.

All in all, what would make me absolutely thrilled would be...



FLASH for Safari

 

[twoodcc]

well i hope that the push stuff comes back. but 2.1 is doing pretty good for me so far. not perfect, but pretty good

 

[mkrishnan]

It has been, very definitely.

In order for Visual Voicemail to work (correct me if I'm wrong on this one?), aren't voicemails sent over the data network instead of being a phone call? So the voicemails are presumably sent in a lossy compressed format (e.g. an MPEG format), and they're being decoded on the iPhone. So it's possible that there's been a change in the scheme so that the iPhone is requesting a lower bitrate or something like that....

 

[epaminos]

In 2.1 also the camera app has been added in the Restrictions menu (I call it parental controls)!!!

Anyway, do you believe that we'll see push by the end of September?

Maybe in 2.1.1?

 

[RobbRock]

Backup is much faster!! I have only had one dropped call since friday which is great!

 

[RTiii320]

my apps install much quicker, keyboard lag seems to be gone as well. Even the battery seems to be somewhat improved the only outstanding thing that i have noticed is that safari crashes continuously.. Before it would only crash if i was low on battery but now it seems to be crashing every time i try to load a heavy scripted web page..

ps. no contact or keyboard lag for me


...so far