iPhone 2.2 News: iPhone 2.2 Firmware Update/Upgrade Available
After the release of the iPhone 2.0.1 firmware, Apple released iPhone 2.2 firmware update or upgrade today. This is Apple’s response to improve the iPhone’s interface and fix some security issues in iPhone 3G. You may install the free iPhone 2.2 firmware update or upgrade and get Google Street View, public transit and walking directions, and more. This free software update will greatly improve your user experience with the iPhone. The iPhone 2.2 release date has been anticipated by iPhone users since the news broke out last week.
According to Apple, the free iPhone 2.2 firmware update or update will give you the following benefits:
- Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
- Significantly better battery life for most users
- Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
- Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
- Faster installation of 3rd party applications
- Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
- Improved performance in text messaging
- Faster loading and searching of contacts
- Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
- Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
- Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
- Genius playlist creation
- The App Store
- Enterprise support
- MobileMe support
- Mass email move and delete
- Contacts search
- Updated keyboard and dictionary support
- Support for more email attachments
- Scientific calculator
The iPhone 2.2 update can be done through iTunes 8. If you don’t have iTunes 8 installed, download it first then carry out the iPhone 2.2 firmware update from within iTunes.
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