iPhone 2.1 update: the aftermath

Posted by animo

September 14, 2008

Now that 2.1’s out, your iPhone 3G is finally perfect — right? Well, that all depends on your definition of “perfect,” but odds are you still have a niggle or two poking out from behind that heaping pile of bugs and security flaws that were smoothed over with Cupertino’s putty knife in last week’s update. Here’s a quick look at what we’re hearing so far:

Excluding those of you who don’t know where you are, our poll on claimed reception improvements in 2.1 suggests that the majority of iPhone 3G owners (by a slim margin) are seeing no improvement or — gasp! — a degradation in signal strength since 2.0.2.
Given that 2.1 patches up some bugs with third-party apps, it comes as no surprise that a few of ‘em are apparently breaking with the new firmware (a disappointment, yes, but not a surprise). It sucks that Apple whacked the ball into developers’ courts on this one, and we’re hoping for the sake of users and devs alike that it’s not going to take many sleepless nights of re-coding and debugging to get the affected apps back on the straight and narrow.
We’re now hearing some reports of email buffoonery ranging from an inability to add new accounts to 2.1-equipped phones, to failures of existing accounts that had previously worked, to total Exchange breakage. Are you folks seeing anything there? Any corporate types freaking out that they’ve lost access to their beloved ActiveSync setups?

We actually found another bug in 2.1 ourselves: we can’t find copy / paste anywhere. It’s anyone’s guess how that one slipped by the testers.

[Thanks to everyone who sent these in]

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