iPhone 2.1 Firmware Update

a big update with the below features.....showing now in iTunes 8

• 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

iPhone 2.1 Firmware Update now Available - Sep 14, 2008

Those who already own an iPhone, whether it’s the 3G version or the 1st gen, can now update to firmware 2.1 through iTunes 8. Although you’ll lose whatever ...

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Those who already own an iPhone, whether it’s the 3G version or the 1st gen, can now update to firmware 2.1 through iTunes 8. Although you’ll lose whatever jailbreak privileges you may have by updating, you can, however, expect the following improvements in your iPhone:

• 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

So if you’v got iTunes 8 installed already, hit the update button now becuase it’ll take some time to download as the size of the update is a bit on the hefty side. So far, the only downside to it is that it’s currently still jailbreak-proof, but maybe whatever flaws it has just hasn’t been reported yet.