Download Firmware Apple iPhone 2.1

Apple released firmware 2.1 for its iPhones a few days ago as announced in this news item. In this topic on our forum, many people then eagerly awaited the actual release of the firmware, which in turn was received mixedly. The firmware can be downloaded via iTunes as usual and then transferred to the iPhone. The accompanying short announcement looks like this:

The iPhone 2.1 software update contains many bug fixes and improvements. To get it, connect your iPhone to your computer using iTunes 8 and click Check for Update.

Update includes:

• 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