[veggiedude]

"SMS is a key communication tool"

No one should be using SMS. It is over priced. Someone calculated that if the SMS pricing was applied to the bandwidth of your email, a 1mb file to send would be $768.

[tewha]

Jason Snell said:

2. There are more iPhones out there than iPod Touches

I don't really doubt you, but does Apple publish numbers for this? The iPod touch had a year's head start in every market except the US.

[venezia]

There may be more iPhones than iPod Touches out there, but I still don't like the idea of being treated as a second class citizen because I have a Touch instead of an iPhone. I am retired from an educational technology position and continue to keep up to date with technology. I would love to have an iPhone, but (believe it or not) I make very few phone calls (even from a land line) and cannot justify the monthly cost of the iPhone.

I use the Touch constantly for Internet access on my own Wi-Fi network. Why use it for Internet access instead of a computer? My primary computer is an iMac that is located on the top floor of my house. The Touch usually goes with me to our lower level media room when watching TV. It is great for quickly checking game scores and looking up answers to questions that arise when watching a TV show. I wake up rather early in the a.m. and the Touch is a quick way to check email and the morning news--quicker than going to my computer.

The Touch is very convenient for Internet access when traveling. When I was in San Francisco & Seattle (a cross country trip) this past summer, it was much more convenient to take/use the Touch than to take a computer with me. I will be in Europe next month and the Touch will definitely prove its worth on the long flights and from hotel rooms with Wi-Fi access.

Of course, I use the Touch for its original purpose--music, videos, podcasts. The apps feature is great. Currently, I am using German & Czech phrase books apps.

[Stormchild]

jmandell said:

Does the Touch have constant connection to maps without phone service? If not, woudln't seem much point in putting walking directions on it?

Do the directions change along the way? If not, your argument makes no sense. (Hint: No they don't.)

Obviously we wouldn't want to be able to find out what bus to take to get somewhere either, or anything like that.

ALL of the new maps features would have been just as useful on the iPod Touch as the iPhone. The fact that we can't even pay some unfair upgrade fee to get them is a travesty.

[Stormchild]

Jason Snell said:

2. There are more iPhones out there than iPod Touches

Maybe in the US, but I think you are wrong about the rest of the world.

[mr_josh]

Um, I think a parent outliving their children or maybe a gory car accident is a travesty. This just qualifies as kinda inconvenient.

[msteffer]

Dude, mass delete from inbox is sooooo update 2.1 (maybe 2.0). Hit "Edit" in the inbox, select the messages you want to delete, then hit "delete" at the bottom. I'm not sure I can help your other requests. This update rocks! Street view is sweet from iPhone. MMS and SMS forwarding are still needed.

[dutch45]

reading all the above makes me laugh. Can someone please submit a serious review about the recent update instead of going off on Apple about what you want or think should be on the iPhone?
It is a friqing phone for crying out loud! If you want a compact, mobile computer just wait a few years and I'm sure Apple will sell you one. In the mean time, I will wait for Jason Snell' review since he is the only one here who can talk serious about the topic of this story: "iPhone UPDATE!!"

[linkinparklover81]

Overall, I think 2.2's features are okay. Like everyone else on the planet with an iPhone, I'd love to see Flash, MMS, copy & paste functionality, etc. And the Shake-to-Shuffle feature on the new Nano would be cool too.

I have noticed something, however, about the update that people maybe haven't noticed yet. I was browsing the Apple Keynotes podcasts in the iTunes app and discovered that I could double-tap a title and it would play, without tapping FREE and having the episode download to my device. I was thinking double-tapping might play a 30-sec clip or something, but the 10/14 MacBook keynote started running with about an hour to run. Again, without me actually downloading to my HD.

Anyone else notice this?

Steven

[danarnar]

lets get a wide screen sms option for dual thumb texting. whos with me??

[danarnar]

what would also be cool is to have the ability to send photos direct to another phone.

[pdbreske]

A couple of things I noticed:

There is now an "Update All" button in the Apps Store application. Instead of having to update each app individually, you can now do them all at once. (I'm pretty sure this is new, right?)

Updating is VERY FAST. I downloaded and installed two apps this morning in under 20 seconds.

[feefer]

I noticed the "Restrictions" options found under "Settings", "General". It allows you to restrict access to the camera, Safari, iTunes (songs labeled as explicit), installing apps, etc. Not sure if it's new, but it is interesting.


Anyway, some users are noticing after updating that their displays are VERY DARK, and don't respond to changes in the brightness settings. Here's what happened to me:
I updated in the dark, and after it completed (i.e. I saw the "iPhone
activated" message on the screen), I moved the slider and noticed the
display was VERY DARK. I was still in a very dark room.
Naturally, I went into the settings, but found I couldn't change the
brightness slider (it wouldn't move) and couldn't even turn on/off the
auto-brightness setting. The display was unresponsive to touch. Not
cool.... I then tried turning the phone on and off, but the problem still persisted.


I then turned on the light in the room, and think I tried to re-set the
brightness slider with the iPhone in a lighted room? I may have turned
the phone off and on (power cycled), but can't remember?
ANYWAY, my iPhone is now working normally now, with the display back to
'normal' brightness, and the brightness slider and button functioning
normally. I suspect the iPhone needs to encounter SOME light after the
update is completed to allow it to calibrate properly.
TAKE-HOME MESSAGE: don't update in the dark, and if you do, then turn
on the light and allow it to power-cycle in the light (not certain you
need to power-cycle it, or it just needs to sense light).
Kind of an odd bug, and this is just a theory, so I'm looking for anecdotal information to confirm.

[msteffer]

I noticed another small change in the App update process. When you update, the app directly replaces the old app in the same spot, including install. In v2.1 the update would install on the last home screen before replacing the old icon. Very minor, but still.