As announced on Tuesday by Apple, the 2.1 firmware update for the iPhone has started being distributed via iTunes. The update which weighs in around 230MB is listed as build number 5F136.
The iPhone 2.1 contains the following updates as listed by Apple:
- decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
- significantly improve battery life for most users
- dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
- improve email reliability, notable fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
- faster installation of 3rd party applications
- fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes if you have lots of 3rd party applications
- improved performance of 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