iphone update available!

Friday, September 12, 2008
Noticed the iphone 2.1 software update is now available this morning.
From update:

• iPhone version 2.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
• decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
• significantly improved 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 if you have lots of 3rd party apps
• improved performance in text messaging
• faster loading and searching of contacts
• improved accuracy of 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

Upgrade status

9:55 Start Download

9:59 237.8 MB Download is complete

9:59 Auto Started backup – We will now see how much faster the backup is!

10:29 Backup Completed

10:29 Auto Software/firmware installation begins

10:40 Iphone Upgrade Complete

Total Time : ~45 min

Impression: Much faster backup time, not much change in software/firmware installation.  We got what was advertised to us.  Faster backup.