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Quick 2.1 notes

By Matt Radford on September 12, 2008

Firmware 2.1 is out. Some observations so far:

(1) The phone is snapper, definitely, especially in Contacts searching.

(2) 3G reception seems the same, i.e. poor.

(3) The status icons for cellular connectivity have changed again. This previously happened with the 2.0 firmware. I now occasionally get an empty circle that tells me… nothing. See:

At the time of writing, the relevant Apple Support document does not mention this. What could it mean?

(4) All SMS now get repeat alerts. A second or third alert may sound. That’s fine if you like that sort of thing, but I don’t, and there is no way of turning it off. See this Apple Discussion for more. Decreased the phone’s usability? Check.

I’ll take any improvements Apple offer, as long as they explain them and allow users to control them.

More when I’ve had a closer look.

  • trifin

    the circle means gprs

  • http://web.mac.com/jamesburland/Nokia_Creative/ James Burland

    12:00 hour clock option in the UK. (Yay!)

  • http://www.allaboutiphone.net Matt Radford

    Thanks Trifin – I’d assumed that, seeing as the old GPRS icon doesn’t show any more. But why change again? We’ve had 3 completely uninformative icons for GPRS in iPhoen firmware now – how about a simple “GPRS”?!

  • trifin

    thanks apple for you.

    I believe they change all the radio icons with this firmware….

    good to see they are not wasting their time!

    fixing cut & paste and mms messaging is obviously not as important as changing these icons… someone actually got paid to do this! i wouldn’t be surprised if there was meetings and executive decisions as to whether the new design was better than the old one!!