Comments on: What’s new in iPhone 2.0.1 – Notes and Video Report

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:49:04 +0000

I updated last night and everything works fine, but I wasn’t having problems before. However, I have almost nothing [3rd party] installed yet.

By: askegg

askegg — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:52:07 +0000

“Vodaphone customers with unlocked phones have reported an inability to link up with iTunes, along with an “0xE8000001” error.”

It’s not just limited to Vodophone customers or unlocked phones. I have a legitimate iPhone with Telstra Australia that is experiencing exactly the same issue.

By: tehawesome

tehawesome — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:38:56 +0000

As far as I can see, the single biggest actual change with 2.0.1 is the backup that occurs when you sync your device no longer takes several lifetimes. I strongly suspect that the backup being made is now incremental, so if you haven’t been messing about, iTunes merrily gets out of your way. Another nice find was that, unlike the 2.0 update, 2.0.1 didn’t move all my carefully-placed home screen icons around, though this might be a factor of it being an incremental update rather than the equivalent of an Archive’n'Install

By: Brau

Brau — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:31:04 +0000

I just gotta agree regarding the fact that webpages are being reformatted for the iPhone. This is not directed at Daniel, but at the general trend within the industry. It started because the other phones simply could not display real content, but I bought this iPhone primarily for its promise of the “real internet” and I find myself getting choked when sites I normally visit on my PC suddenly offer me a list of simplistic HTML links just because I’m using an iPhone. It goes without saying that Apple should not limit iPhone users to using their onboard apps if they desire to use Safari based access instead.

Thanks for the heads-up on the upgrade process Daniel. It will save me some possible grief when I get around to doing it.

BTW: Really enjoying your AppleInsider in-depth iPhone review!

By: blacktalonz

blacktalonz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:59:04 +0000

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One other disappointment is that Apple continues to hide its MobileMe apps from iPhone users in Safari, directing them instead to using Mail, Calendar, and Contacts. What happened to the “real Internet?”

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Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Thank you for assuming that I want the iPhone/iPod Touch version of your blog, when I have the “Real Internet” on my iPod.

Yes, you can switch to normal, after you scroll all the way through the article and all of the comments, by then what’s the point.

By: eliotw

eliotw — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:47:57 +0000

It’s consistent. 2.0 contacts also remembered where you were in the group view.
Consider a scenario where you are looking for a contact and then exit out to double check an email or take a call and then go back to contacts. Being at the same spot is helpful in that case.
Tapping on the status bar (clock) takes to the top and search bar so that’s handy for the other cases.

By: IainW

IainW — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:51:50 +0000

In fact, the contacts.app behaviour is now a touch less consistent – did it always not remember you where in the group view when you quit it?

I’d like an option added here – always ’start’ at the top of the contacts list, so you can go to search if you want.

Starting halfway down the list makes no sense to me. You are unlikely to call the person you just looked up again via contacts (you would use recent calls in phone.app to do that). Chances are you are loading the contacts.app to find someone new. Why leave it halfway down the list?

By: IainW

IainW — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:48:15 +0000

Hi Daniel,

You complain about not being able to target the small search icon, or get to the top quickly.

You can search contacts in only two taps:

1. Open contacts.
2. Tap the time (status bar) to go to the top of the list immediately.
3. Tap the search panel

My contacts.app is much improved, but it still has some hesitation when it first loads, its not the 15 seconds of wailing pigshit it was under 2.0.0

By: dscottbuch

dscottbuch — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:39:23 +0000

While contact is much better it still has significant lags in my experience. This may be due to having 1550+ contacts but it is still annoying. What is especially annoying is that if you go into contact and spend the time (maybe 20 seconds or so) to scan from top to bottom using the right side alphabet from they on everything is very ’snappy’ so there is clearly some caching going on – which is good, but, unfortunately, they don’t seem to save it between launches of contacts. I know that Mobile-Me sync might impact this but turning off my Mobile-Me sync/connection to contact did nothing to improve it.

Also, BTW, have had had essentially zero problems with push on either mail, contacts, or calendar.

By: tino

tino — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:26:54 +0000

I did my update while in Airplane Mode. I’d got into the habit of turning on Airplane Mode when doing any kind of syncing that was going to take a while, because an incoming call would mean I’d have to start over. Before the recent iTunes update, it was taking an hour to do an *ordinary* sync.

After my phone finished resetting, iTunes complained that the phone couldn’t be re-activated. I was able to fix this by attempting to make an ‘emergency’ call to myself. After I hit ‘call’ but before phone placed the call (which wouldn’t have worked as it wasn’t to 911), the phone prompted me to turn off Airplane Mode; as soon as I hit the ‘disable’ button, the emergency call screen disappeared and I saw my regular lock screen back.

Seems like someone would have thought of this possibility.