[Edward Kirk]

Those of you who haven't installed the 2.0 firmware on your iPod touch or first-gen iPhone will be interested to know that 3G connectivity isn't the only thing making the iPhone 3G faster than before. Despite being pretty buggy and prone to random crashes, the iPhone 2.0 software's new version of the Safari browser is significantly faster than 1.1.4 or 1.1.5.

John Gruber of Daring Fireball has compared an iPhone running software version 2.0 with the same tests from 1.0.1 and 1.1.4. Here are his results (the smaller the bar, the faster it was):



According to his tests, it was no less than 1.7 times as fast in most cases. You can get more of the nitty-gritty at Daring Fireball.

[madscientest]

That may be nice and all, but its still not enough reasons to update an original iphone to 2.0.
I would like to have 2.0 but with the stripped bluetooth function ability it makes me want to walk into the apple store and throw it as hard as i can at the managers face, then point and laugh while the cops are being called and then hop on my bike and out run the cops....stupid bast@rds

[Spacey]

Can you elaborate on the "stripped bluetooth functionality"? I'm interested to know what's missing now. Thanks

[madscientest]

Originally Posted by Spacey

Can you elaborate on the "stripped bluetooth functionality"? I'm interested to know what's missing now. Thanks

It has to do with bluetooth audio, which is the most important feature to me. I ride a motorcycle to commute and have a helmet that has a built in bluetooth headset that has the capability to hook to helmet to helmet or helmet to cell phone. well if my cell phone is hooked up i can listen to my music from my iphone and stream it to the hemlet making the trip way more enjoyable. however to get this to work you need bluetooth audio. since the iphone does not have it, there is a work around to get music to play. what you do is start playing a play list, then go to the voicemail tab and select the headset in the upper right corner, viola...the music plays thru my helmet but music does continue to play thru my iphone in my pocket making the battery life suffer.

well in the 2.0 apple decided to cut out the capabilities of listening to a voicemail thru the headset. now if i have my helmet hooked up there is not an option to select the output device...thus we are no longer able to listen to a voicemail thru bluetooth headsets.

why they did this, i have no idea, but Im extremely upset with apple allover again. why cant they just give us a more advanced bluetooth capabilities? its seems so lame to have such a wonderful device that lacks so many features that the cheapest phones offer!!! welcome to the world of apple!!

[Spacey]

Wow, that is pretty ridiculous. Like George Carlin used to say, "They don't make that anymore. They found out we like that."

Not sure what you mean by "still continues to play, draining my battery life..." Isn't that what you want? I mean the continues to play part - which naturally should use the battery...

[madscientest]

Originally Posted by Spacey

Wow, that is pretty ridiculous. Like George Carlin used to say, "They don't make that anymore. They found out we like that."

Not sure what you mean by "still continues to play, draining my battery life..." Isn't that what you want? I mean the continues to play part - which naturally should use the battery...

the sound plays thru my helmet, but the speakers on the iphone continue to play, thus making more drain on the battery. plus my pocket dont care if it hears music or not.

now here is the other trick. if you have your iphone to auto lock, it will turn off the music. so what i do is make my auto lock set to never lock and then when i get it set up i put the iphone in my pocket, this is where the proximity sensor will turn off the display but continue to stream music thru bluetooth and the speakers.

Seems like a hassle but its so worth it to listen to music on the bike, either to commute or for that long distance coast ride listening to some good driving music

[Spacey]

That makes sense. I wasn't even aware there was a proximity sensor. I'm liking this more and more.