Apple massages iPhone code

Any chance of useful information

Arent there already unboxing site for this fetish

kin ell

were all the screenshots really that necessary?

don't get me wrong, i'm as much an apple fanatic as the next iFan, but does a minor point release that provides minor patches really warrant such extensive coverage?

or does El Reg pay you, not by column inches, but by screen pixels? :-)

Still no fix for the maps

Google Maps still showing KM instead of Miles in the UK. There goes a perfect opportunity to fix it.

Insightful

Stay tuned for next week's "Watching Windows Update in Action", and a full dissection of the stages paint goes through whilst drying.

Having said that though, probably against policy to write an article about the iPhone which is less than two paragraphs, like this should have been. "Apple releases minor update, nothing much to see here".

To Many Pictures?

You Apple freaks need your hand held through an operating system, Reg just thought a story with pictures was more your IT level.

Thats right, I said it.

patch

I understand they always put out a complete OS when upgrading the iPhone not just a small patch. Personally I never really look at the size of the download, most people download on broadband so it don't really matter. I have a PC and a Mac at home and pretty much let the updates take care of themselves on both machines and never had any problems with either.

@ipatronize et al.

"but are the idiot-proof instructions really necessary?"

Have you been following the comment sections on El Reg lately? I knew you hadn't.

stop whinging

Posting detailed instructions means the article is more likely to be linked to on other websites - thus generating more advertising revenue for The Reg. There are plenty of people out there who don't have a clue how to update their firmware - despite it being a relatively simple process.

USentricity

@colin

Bugger. That was probably the one fix I was most looking forward to.

Surely there has to be some coder on the iPhone/Google team who's actually been outside of the US and to the UK specifically.

Me. I'm waiting from a nod from the Dev team before I go anywhere near 2.2.1

Paris - because even she knows to go the extra mile for Britain.

Bad Apple Support

A lot of folks using Apple software (OSX and iPhone) experience the following error when trying to access websites or internet services -

kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork

Looks like its a bug (or at least a scenario that is not gracefully handled) in Apples TCP/IP network stack. Its apparently caused by failed HTTP requests and a quick google show that it affects lots of folks. Really annoying to have this error keep popping up when trying to surf using the web using iPhone.

Being so closed and secretive (able to cover up / deny responcibility) Apple havent even acknowleged that this is a problem and by not publishing details of what exactly an update includes - there is apparently no way of knowing whether this would fix the error.

For a while there i wanted a MacBook but I sticking with Ubuntu on my £300 Dell laptop thanks.

For iPod Touch too

Don't forget the iPod Touch!

Snappier

It also fixes problems with updates from the App Store.

This is supposed to work seamlessly, but my App updates have never worked; they crash out, and do not update. Apple's support site says to uninstall Apps from phone and from iTunes too, and then redownload them from iTunes, but this is a PITA.

However, with new firmware 2.2.1 updated all Apps on the iPhone with no crashes or issues -- hurrah update now works like it should've done since the App Store appeared. w00t!

The whole iPhone appears faster since this update too, not just Safari but Apps too -- I wonder if they've stopped underclocking the CPU and run it as fast as iPod Touch?

Future update review request

Do you think there is enough detail in the screenshots? You seem to have missed some percent of the progress. Next time make them animated, so we can really understand how an update works. Jeez..

Pointless

246MB of guff. Heaven forbid that they release a firmware that contains something useful like the ability to forward text messages, or record video without having to jailbreak it

Mail images

Does this fix the thing where saving an image from an email stores it as at thumbnail resolution rather than actual image resolution?

I hope so.

And is this update available for iPod Touch?

Sneaky

The only reason this was released was to update the Baseband so that the yellowsnOw unlock process won't work - And relock all those phones of those stupid enough to upgrade