iPhone owners: if you plug your phone into its cradle, launch iTunes, select the iPhone device and click the Update button you should see that the promised 2.1 update is available. It adds support for the new Genius list feature and Apple says it fixes the bulk of the annoyances introduced in the 2.0 software.
I’m downloading it now and will post details once I’ve completed installation. [Update performed, so far so good. Sync after updating to get the Genius feature after you've activated it in iTunes.]
-The iPhone 2.1 Software Update
Update includes:
- Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
- Significantly better battery life for most users
- Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
- Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
- Faster installation of 3rd party applications
- Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
- Improved performance in text messaging
- Faster loading and searching of contacts
- Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
- Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
- Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
- Genius playlist creation