What's so great about the upcoming 5.1 update?

[marcusj0015]

Apple OS releases are like this X.x.x = bug fixes X.X = features.

Not to mention, Apple will most likely enable the panorama in iOS 5.1, and thats without mentioning the rumored Facebook integration, or the new wallpapers (I'm a glutton for beautiful FRESH wallpapers.)

 

[RoboCop001]

All my saved game data gets stored in the icloud backup. If that happened to me, I would immediately do a icloud restore of my phone.

I would have done that, but my last iCloud back up at the time was a couple of days old and I didn't want to lose other data.

 

[Futhark]

And the disappearing iPhone after it's done syncing. For me it just suddenly vanishes from iTunes and then I get the error "iTunes could not find this iPhone."

I'm still getting this too

 

[Bodygard]

What's so great about the upcoming 5.1 update?

Hmmm nothing? at least nothing that we know till now...
I hope they have something up their sleeve to show us when they launch the ipad3 2 weeks from now!

 

[jomarr]

You will be very happy with 5.1 then. My current battery stats (on a 4S running 5.1b3) are 1h31 usage, 1d18h standby, 66% battery level remaining.

In my experience at least, beta 3 has the battery life gremlins with the 4S properly nailed. With 5.0.1 up to 5.1b2 I was getting up to about 1.5 days; now with beta 3 it's up to 3-4 days depending on how often I use the phone.

With the earlier 5.1 betas the drainage on idle was more or less sorted. The only thing that continued to drain was when in a low signal area (which happened to be my house - d'oh!) of about 2-3% an hour, but great in good signal areas. Now with beta 3, there aren't any such fringe-coverage battery drainage problems anymore. Battery is now every bit as good, if not better, than my iPhone 4 was.

Note - I'm not the sort that's glued to a phone all day, nor do I game; but I do use Siri a little over the course of a day. As for settings I have the following on all the time; 3G, wifi (with APs at home and work), a modest collection of location services, and two push accounts.

Will the play counts and other 'music' problems be fixed?

 

[Dustin81783]

If you have itunes match, the Genius feature is removed from your iPhone for some reason. I would like to have this turned back on. I miss it.