iPhone 2.1 Due Friday

Sep 9, 01:54 PM  

Oh, thank goodness. At Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event today, Steve Jobs said:

If you have an iPhone, there’s a 2.1 software update as well. It’s a big update: it fixes lots of bugs: fewer call drops, significantly improved battery life, not as many crashes, backing up to iTunes is “dramatically faster.” And some new performance enhancements as well. Free to all iPhone owners, and it’ll drop on Friday.

(Via Dan Moren at Macworld).

This is really welcome news. The 2.0.x iPhone code release has been terrible. First, the iPhone is unresponsive to input, and then it catches up from all the frantic tapping you did seconds before. Changing from screen to screen within an app, or scrolling within it, now has annoying lag, especially in the core applications: Phone, SMS, Safari, and Mail. 2.0.x was a major step backwards from 1.1.4 for everything but the App Store.

Here’s hoping that Friday brings something to be excited about again.