Apple has released new iPhone 2.1 software on its iTunes online service that offers to decrease dropped calls, improve the battery life, improve e-mail reliability, improve text messaging notification, reduce 3rd-party application crashes and reduce the time it takes to sync the device with a computer. Users have noticed more "bars" on the connection meter and have reported that it was faster performing key tasks. Last month's update from Apple drew some criticism from users that claimed that it did not enhance access to high-speed data networks as Apple had predicted. In this update, Apple also patched 8 security vulnerabilities including the "passcode bug" they fixed last January but failed to include in the July iPhone 2.0 update. The other 7 vulnerabilities were the same 7 that were fixed in the iPod Touch 2.0 update earlier this week.

There's a lots of improvements, but not everything it allright. It takes a lot longer now to catch WiFi networks, even known ones. And the contact list now puts blank spaces inbetween the phone numbers. Which wouldn't be so bad if it put them where they belong... which it doesn't. Actually it tries to put them according to a country scheme. That only works if you put the international code before the number.