Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iPhone 2.1 Reactions and Additional Features

Duh!!

ratattak said:
I still get Safari crashes once In a while, but not nearly as much as I used to. I am sooooooo happy they fixed the laggy typing.

My service has improved significantly too. I used to have to ALWAYS turn off 3g because the service was so unpredictable. My apt used to only get one bar of 3g; now it gets 4, sometimes 5.

However one good thing came from a buggy phone: I kept pestering phone support about it, opened a case, and after 4 weeks they decided to compensate me for my troubles: they sent me a brand new nano for free! They even let me choose the color.

<3:apple:
Click to expand...

The BARS are only for phone signal strength to the Cell TOWER, NOT how strong of 3G or EDGE connection is. THE BARS do not measure 3G or EDGE...... So people stop referring to as if it does.
 
Bought the Phone 2 Days After Launch

Chic0 said:
After only having new 2.1 on for a day, I'm impressed. Everything just seems a lot smoother, no apps have crashed, I can now get 3G signal in work...........

Just a shame the phone didnt behave like this 'out the box'. Thing is though, I also work in telecommunications industry and from my experience, no phone is perfect when it first comes out ;) At least with iphone , Apple regularly release updates.
Click to expand...

I bought my phone fully expecting bugs, which is why I had a my backup phone with me if there was a problem. I completely expected it and went about my business as if I might encounter some problems. However, Apple launch was not as buggy as other launches I've seen, and they actually FIX their bugs, not like the PALM TREOS which are infamous for some kind of lockup or freeze up depending on which model despite a complete default restore of the device.
 
Made a mistake

imcquill said:
Yeah, I agree that they are probably exactly the same thing.. or likely they are using the same back end infrastructure for both. It just may not be too easy to get it working properly. I personally am a little peeved that they advertised push email at all two months ago.. I would have rather they said it will work in three months. Getting email inconsistently is not cool.
Click to expand...

The head of that department made a mistake and he was basically fired and replaced with a trusted by Steve Jobs manager and they are working on getting it working so as not to disappoint you again.
 
I wish the Iphone would allow the use of a stylette pen so I could use it like a mini-pda. I am in the medical field and it would allow me to replace my Ipaq if I could write my own notes and also if there were more medical apps i.e. nursing drug reference, etc.

The phone, though, overally desperately needs MMS. I distest having to log on and remember a crazy code and user name just to see a thumb nail image of what was originally sent to me. Cut/Paste I could use as well but mainly I just wish for more medical reference apps, use of a stylette for note taking, etc.
 
There is!!!

calisurfboy said:
I wish the Iphone would allow the use of a stylette pen so I could use it like a mini-pda. I am in the medical field and it would allow me to replace my Ipaq if I could write my own notes and also if there were more medical apps i.e. nursing drug reference, etc.

The phone, though, overally desperately needs MMS. I distest having to log on and remember a crazy code and user name just to see a thumb nail image of what was originally sent to me. Cut/Paste I could use as well but mainly I just wish for more medical reference apps, use of a stylette for note taking, etc.
Click to expand...

Check the App Store there is a complete drug referrence App there, and I do believe there is a writing app, or someone mentioned there would be, but drug app I know for sure.

Now Available
App is Epocrates RX (Drug Reference)
Coming Soon!
http://www.shapewriter.com/iphone.html Writing Pad (Stylus notetaking)
 
jayducharme said:
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.
Click to expand...

That's very true, but I'm sure the reason they didn't do that yet and may even wait longer is because they don't want to branch the experience, so that some people can run certain things and other iPhone users cant.
 
mkrishnan said:
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....
Click to expand...

It certainly sounds like that's the case.
 
Battery life, 3g, and stability, oh my

What can I say? Yeah, I'm missing push and copy/paste, but am I ever pleased with this update.....:D

I used to be extremely anal wrt battery safeguards, to the extent that I checked each morning that WiFi was off, likewise location services, bluetooth and 3g, and *still* had the battery at 50% at the end of the day.

Today? Full 3g/WiFi/Bluetooth/Location. Lots of calls, listening to music, and watching 30% of Iron Man. When I put it back in the dock, I'd used roughly 15% battery. Oh my. And no crashes today. None.

This is as it should have been! Highly satisfied.

Now bring me my push and c/p, please :D
 
Sweetbike40 said:
I'm not too thrilled with 2.1. Apps crashing and Safari crashing more than ever. Since i've had the phone (july 14), Safari has quit on me more times since Friday (2.1) then since i've had the phone. And i find the more bars to be sort of fake. I had 6 bars of 3G in my apartment (never had much 3G in here before) and still can barely make a phone call on the 3G network from my apartment. :(

ps. also my email isn't being pushed properly. had the phone on all night. woke up and had to open mail to get the mail to come in.

pss. also, my phone in general is just running slower.
the keyboard lag is gone at least.
Click to expand...

Wow, I feel bad for you because it's the opposite for me. I would restore the phone completely fresh if I had all of those problems.
Since I upgraded to 2.1, the battery life has improved dramatically, the UI in general is A LOT faster and smoother than 2.0.x, it's as stable as 1.1.4 for me. It's like having 1.1.4 with 2.0 features. I love the upgrade.

PS. I think you're lying when you said you had 6 bars of 3G.... (because there are only 5 bars :) ) haha. sorry just had to rub that in...
 
Push in September/October

If I recall the WWDC Keynote correctly, Steve Jobs sad that push notification for apps would be availalable in September or October. Apple has talked about a September software update for bug fixes, but I can't find where Apple said that push notification for apps would be out in September, so they have 45 days to complete this an be on time, not 15 days.
 
Prynce said:
The BARS are only for phone signal strength to the Cell TOWER, NOT how strong of 3G or EDGE connection is. THE BARS do not measure 3G or EDGE...... So people stop referring to as if it does.
Click to expand...

Actually, the signal strength to the cell tower is strongly related to the strength of the 3G or EDGE connection. The weaker the signal strength, the lower transfer rate.
 
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)

my yellow screen is now normal again :)
 
So I have mixed feelings about this update.

The interface definitely feels a lot snappier and bringing up the keyboard no longer has a 3-5 second delay.

However, I've noticed an INCREASE in dropped calls, and my voice (according to my family and friends) is basically unintelligible when I use the phone with my Lexus' bluetooth system (this was not the case before).

Also, while Apple said my battery life would improve, I've noticed that it's actually a lot worse.

I've tried restoring the phone, and at this point, I don't know what to do. :confused:
 
My observations:
Overall everything seems to run faster.
I haven't had any 3rd party app crashes since the update (I was getting them daily before).
Safari still crashes for me on a daily basis.
Battery life seems worse, if anything.
Phone reception maybe ever-so-slightly better.
Wifi signal strength displays fewer bars in most places, (even five feet away from my base station!) but functions the same as before.
Sync time about the same.
Less lag in contacts list and typing in general.
Icons seem to have a more "glossy" apperance.
Website links that used to bring up the app store no longer work (invalid address message)

tys
 
crandel said:
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.
Click to expand...

cameronjpu said:
Definitely. It is very tinny. Bizarre, as that is the only place I've noticed it.
Click to expand...

Not that hard to imagine. The voicemails are stored as .caf files on the phone, right? Maybe Apple just changed the bitrate/quality to reduce file size...?
 
The calendar schedule slabs is now in pale light blue -- before it was in red.

I can't seem to get back to a menu where you can select it for home, work and something else like before (3 colours).

but overall, some apps (especially involving a keyboard) loads much quicker...


oh, and the bars (out of five) are sometimes not full. I still remember it was always full in 1.x, but then 2.0, 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 were the worst... I'm not sure about 3G though... in South Africa with Vodacom (Vodafone) rarely does 2G. It only has GPRS and 3G lol. So a 1st gen iPhone doesn't work that nicely in SA... and besides, data roaming is a ripoff anyway:p
 
mactarkus said:
There is enough RAM because your cellphone operations and e-mail are running in the background.
Click to expand...

There is enough RAM for these two (and a few other OS) background processes because Apple knows how big they are and left just enough room. Not so for any other (random developer) apps of unknown size.
 
iPhone 2.1 update-battery life

My single biggest complaint of the 2-3 I have seems to have been addressed by this update. My battery life over the weekend appears to be at least 30% better so far? It might be better but I won't really know for another week or two as I have a few trips coming up and can really put it through wringer! My overall opinion of the battery life has been that is only been about 50% of the original iPhone. Now if AT+T would just get 3G in my area with a few more towers, I'm there!
 
Well I have been very happy since the last update, but as of today I am starting to get nervous. I have noticed problems when going from a text message to the phone. I was using the text app and hit call button on top of text screen, the entire screen when black except for the top line with the time, bars, etc. Then it started ringing and still nothing on the screen. so i tried putting it up to my ear and back down to see if maybe it would reset and the screen would come back, but nothing.

And i also noticed today that there was a nice lag when brining up apps. and not just 3rd party ones, but apple one, i.e. text, phone, and contacts. ill keep posting if it continues to happen. maybe apple should look into this now for the next update if it continues.

anyone else have this same problem?
 
okay as for the bluetooth sync issue, I truly believe that we will NEVER see this feature because apple will protect itself, ex: me sending you songs that you dont have, from my ipod. they dont want that... and that to me (and call me wrong) is okay....:rolleyes::apple::apple::apple:
 
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)

I'm just glad the issues I was having are now fixed.
I honestly could care less about syncing notes and copy/paste
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back