One Week With iPhone 2.1

Its been a week since Apple released iPhone firmware update 2.1 and I have to tell you, it's been a wonderful week. Remember the problems I was having with 2.0.2? They're gone! Absolutely every last one of them. My I no longer dread plugging my iPhone into my Mac for a sync as backups usually only take around a minute. That's amazing to me as they used to take 4 and 5 hours. The phone is also more stable and I rarely have experience app crashes anymore. Apple seems to have fixed the volume level bug as well.

When Apple claimed that the update would "significantly improve battery life" I was skeptically hopeful. After a weeks worth of testing I think Apple should retract that claim. Instead of "significantly" they should say "dramatically". It's amazing that a simple (it was simple for me anyway) firmware update could have that much of an effect on battery life. If I had to guess I'd say it that since the update my useful battery life has almost double. No kidding!

I also haven't suffered anymore GAD's. I still have every appropriate appendage crossed but so far so good. I'm even thinking I might try updating an app or two from my iPhone and then try a sync. Prior to 2.1 that was pretty much guaranteed to produce a GAD.

I can't say one way or the other if GPS performance has been improved nor can I comment on improvements with dropped calls. I never experienced any of the dropped calls and since I hadn't had any GPS for over a week prior to the update any GPS is good GPS.

So, yes I'm a happy man! The only thing that really bugs me is that if they could fix all these problems with a simple firmware update, why did it take so long? Hopefully some of the hair I pulled out of my head will grow back. On second thought, maybe there's a class action suit here? ;-)