Based on personal experience I can tell you that the new iPhone 2.1 Update is more than just some bug and security fixes, but really does have much better reception and fewer call drops. In my office I now experience far better call reception and didn't have a single call drop compared to before. The reception was so great I made several test calls to family members in disbelief that a software update could make such a difference.
Some of the new iPhone 2.1 changes:
- 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
Very cool!
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