I’ve been excited since I learned about the 2.1 iPhone update that Apple dropped this past Friday and I wasn’t disappointed. The update fixes several issues including:

  • “Significantly” increased battery life
  • less dropped calls and call setup failures (I had lots of setup failures)
  • “Dramatically” faster iTunes backups
  • Create genius playlists on the go (awesome)

These are juts some of the fixes and the link above will take you to Apple’s announcement so you can read all of the changes.

So far, one of the first changes I noticed is that there are new icons at the top of the iPhone screen for 3G or Edge network connectivity.

pre-2.1 iPhone screen shot

And here is the new icon for Edge connectivity

2.1 iPhone screen shot

They weren’t joking about the battery life either. My battery lasts at least twice as long now. Previously, I could almost watch as my battery life indicator dwindled down, but now I can use the phone all day and still have at least half battery life left. It was so bad I would turn off 3G and WiFi to try and save battery life. I still keep WiFi off unless I want to use it, but I can leave 3G on now and still have plenty of battery life left.

Apps install and update way faster now, which is a welcome change because before 2.1 even on WiFi it would take several minutes to download and install an app. This wasn’t that big a deal if I was sitting at home, but sometimes I would want to grab an update really quick while connected to a WiFi hotspot only to have to wait 5 or more minutes for the app to load.

Backups, as promised, are also much faster. I can sync much quicker now.

If you haven’t updated your iPhone to firmware version 2.1 I highly reccommend doing so as soon as you can. It makes the iPhone work so much better you just have to try it to really appreciate it. I just wish they would have released the 3G model with this firmware because before the battery life was just atrocious.

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