iPhone update 2.0.2

Just two weeks of working with 2.0.1 and Apple have now released the 2.0.2 update. They claim the following new features:

Bug Fixes

Cant wait to see which bug they have fixed.

I am again being mean to them, I guess they are working hard to mend the problems people are reporting since 2.0 was first launched. I also got an email today saying they are adding another 60 days to my Mobile Me account for free. I have to hand it to them at the Apple place, they are trying to make this better. Ask me again in a month and I will tell you if they have done it.

Monkey trouble

That monkey just sat on that car and ripped off the rear washer jet
and ate it. Now it is heading for my car. Oh no!

at the end of the day..

I have been using the 2.0.1 update for the iPhone all day now and I have posted a few mobile notes. As you can see the maps app seems to be about 2% better that is was at 2.0 and 98% naffer than 1.1.4 so I am upset by that. I have found the address book in the phone app works much better with only occasional freezing however the contacts app that was added to the home screen in version 2.0 is still likely to freeze more often than not when first launched. These may sound like minor gripes but as Apple had all this stuff working just fine on the old version, I think I am justified in having a little moan.

Other stuff I have noticed is the applications seem to load and quit much faster than before. I can now check my facebook friends updates, change the podcast on the iPod and add an item on my zenbe shopping list with not delays. So this is good and Apple have obviously been busy to correct a lot of the buggy previous release.

I added a load of free applications in the evening and they all added with no fuss, which had been a problem before. When I docked the iPhone to my MacBook, it synced and transfured the new apps back to iTunes with no question. This also before had often been missed and I was forced to choose the 'transfer purchases' option to get this to work.

I still have a problem with iTunes. I am running the current v7.7.1 but I am still finding that when the store reports there are updates for my apps, it says 'you have 4 updates' and then when I click there are 26 updates. Most of the are duplicates and in this case, all of them I have.







So work still needs to be done but overall I still love the iPhone. I would imagine by the end of this month there will be another update and this will resolve the rest of the problems that seem to be hanging around. I still don't need or want a 3G iPhone as the new features are not enough to make me want to upgrade and my revision 1 phone with it's 2.0.1 firmware is still in very good condition. I imagine in a year it may not be in such fine condition and by then, who knows, the iPhone 3 may be here.

Maps app update (it worked again)

5 hours later my maps app found me again.

Maps fail

Looks like I just lucky earlier. I have tried several times today and
the maps app is still failing to find me. Oh dear.

Jim

Sent from my iPhone

It worked!

I take it back. Just after I posted my last report on the maps, the
app found me.

I will test more during the day.

iphone maps app still not working

The maps app find me when I am at home but not when I am away from
home. So I guess this means the wifi search is working but the cell
tower search is not. This is a real shame as the google maps app on my
blackberry is still working.

Jim

Sent from my iPhone

iPhone address book fixed

First thing that is good is the contacts list is working very quickly.
The list is scolling as soon as the lust is displayed and the search
is ready straight away. Nice.

Jim

Sent from my iPhone

iPhone update 2.0.1 is here!!

I have been upset by the v2.0 update for my iPhone because is breaks some of the features and has made the phone slow to respond and crashy. I have worked with it and around the problems for a few weeks but an was very pleased to see this message on my screen today.

I hope to be able to give a few more reports today as I try out the new patch.

Man cold

The youtube version of this keeps failing so I put a copy here for you all. Enjoy.