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.