Today at its Let’s Rock event, Apple has announced that an upgrade to its rocky iPhone 2.0 firmware is on the way, and will be available starting Friday. Many users have been plagued by long backup times and connection issues since the 2.0 firmware (and the iPhone 3G) launched last July. Unfortunately, there was no mention of the much-awaited Push support for third party programs, which Apple had previously promised for a September release.
Apple also made a number of other announcements, though they were somewhat underwhelming – Apple’s stock price has dipped nearly 4% today. Many of the new updates have been leaked over the last few weeks, with especially accurate predictions offered by Digg founder (and TC50 expert panelist) Kevin Rose.
Among the updates:
-iTunes 8, which includes Genius – an intelligent playlist generator that will make use of anonymous data uploaded to Apple’s servers to help improve results.
-Apple has made amends with NBC, which pulled its content from the iTunes store last year. NBC shows like The Office and 30 Rock will be back, and will be available in HD for $2.99 (as will content from a number of other networks).
Click here to get CrunchGear’s full story on the new iTunes
-A second generation iPod Touch, with built in support for the Nike+ jogging accessory. The new Touch is substantially less expensive, at 229 (8GB), $299 (16GB), and $399 (32GB), and now shares the iPhone 3G curved design.
Click here for CrunchGear’s initial review of the new iPod Touch.
-A new nano has been released, with a slimmer profile and a built-in accelerometer. They also have more space, with 8GB for $150 and 16GB for $200, and are available in more colors.
Click here for CrunchGear’s initial review of the new Nano.
such a joke, 2.1 should have been what they came out with from the start. They should be pushing through new features like copy paste now, or getting push going. It’s absolutely killing me to not have copy/paste on this phone.
“It’s absolutely killing me to not have copy/paste on this phone.”
How can you kill that which has no life?
Smack-down!
ill believe 2.1 to be ’stable’ when I see it
Nice enough event, but pretty yawn-worthy products imo.
The new iPods are just a redesigned case with not much else; are we finally hitting the limit of what an iPod can do?
Sure the physical shake to shuffle songs is cute and fun, and that’s the issue right there; we’re down to getting new “cute & fun” features to justify the upgrades.
Colour me unimpressed, I have no reason to upgrade my trusty 30 GB iPod classic-before-Classic-was-a-model-name. If at least new MBPs or even an updated Mini (God knows it needs an update), I would’ve happily thrown money at Jobs.
WHAT ARE YOU, FREAK APPLE-FANS COMPLAINING!!!!
I’m a Treo Palm OS addict. AN ADDICT!!!… and their new product comes only in the Windows Mobile platform. So much for their ex-Apple and iPod guru bringing life to Palm.
Even worst, I’m with Sprint, and if I want something similar to the iPhone, I get offered the crappy Instinct.
Now please go ahead and raise my taxes, gimme government-controlled healthcare, put DRM on all my music, tap my bandwidth limit and force me to be an union worker, because I’m having a very technologically bad day.
Not even an evening at Fry’s will cheer me up.
just wanted to comment
Couple of surprises:
• Genius provides “the iTunes store, all the time.”
• The sidebar is nothing but a list of recommended purchases.
• Apple has force-inserted the unwanted arrow-link to the iTunes store into music lists. This was something people had the option to turn off since v1. Now it’s required (no opt-out).
• If you turn-off Genius and want to turn it on again, you have to go through the entire 5-20 minute sign-up process again, including the 2x EULAs.
Basically, a bold move for Apple iTunes store, but intrusive for users.
where in the hizzzelll is MMS????
Pity. Thougt that apple will launch the new ipod nano as an “ipod air”
Great news! Lets hope they’ve fixed some of the issues I’ve discussed here:
http://www.trip...phone-is-iphun/