I just wanted to make a quick post about an update I was eagerly awaiting. Plus it seems like a good opportunity to write something positive about Apple. Regardless of the other articles written here I will praise any company that does good and flame them when they do bad. This time Apple has done good!

For all of you that were on 2.x prior to 2.1 you will know it just plain sucked. It was buggy, laggy and crashy! I’m happy to say 2.1 is none of those and it also introduces some nice little touches:

• Pause app install by clicking on the app icon
• Triple clicking to go to the previous track
• Genius playlist
• Option to wipe data after 10 incorrect passcode attempts
• iTunes now displays ‘Apps’ space usage
• On UK English set iPhones holding ‘.com’ on the keyboard presents you with other domains

Recently I posted about the installation of applications rendering the iPhone a brick. I thought the interim solution was probably found in that post until today when I had downloaded the “Movies” app from the app store. I was installing via iTunes sync when the phone just went into what looked like a reboot to confront me with that well known screen:

So, yet another reset required. This time I will not be installing any applications until at least version 2.02 of the software which we hope is due in September.

It appears I am not the only one having to carry out multiple resets! R-Fly from Razorian Fly has commented:

it’s not just you - I’m counting - 15 restores since July 12th.

Let’s hope Apple does address this issue in the next update.

I know, the title is a little strange but it’s a play on a rather lame article about a guy, called Guy and his iPhone posted on TUAW. Yesterday I submitted the news about the iMac and Macbook Pro not waking from sleep to them, needless to say I think they are not interested. I had a brief scout through their site and I can see why they didn’t like it, it was real and slightly serious news!

So I read the ‘Guy‘ article and decided to see just how great Guy is with his iPhone, and found out he is really rather below par. So Guy, TUAW, here is my iPhone usage page. 3G is on 100% of the time, WiFi has been on but is normally disabled, GPS has been on but is usually disabled, PUSH on for Mobile Me calendars, contacts and bookmarks. I have the other two mail accounts set to check every 15 minutes and have over 15 apps installed, mainly games. The usage you see is mainly through games and Omnifocus usage.

So it would appear I beat Guy by 11hrs standby time, 34 minutes usage time and 15mins call time and still actually having the functionally my phone was shipped with!

Note: This screen shot was taken with 10% still left in the battery, I will update with the final figures at battery death.