You have new software!

Well it's out and Apple lists a bunch of changes. 237.8MB's worth of updates! So, from the horses mouth...

The iPhone 2.1 software update contains many bug fixes and improvements. To get it, connect your iPhone 

to your computer using iTunes 8 and click Check for Update.

Updates

• Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
• Significantly better battery life for most users
• Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
• Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
• Faster installation of 3rd party applications
• Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
• Improved performance in text messaging
• Faster loading and searching of contacts
• Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
• Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
• Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
• Genius playlist creation 

There are 2 ways to update apps (that you downloaded from the Apple App Store) on your Apple iPhone.

1. The first is to update them from your iPhone itself. Depending on what connections are available, your update will be downloaded over Wifi, 3G, or Edge (fastest to slowest in that order, typically).

Reports have surface, and been confirmed by Apple, that there exists a flaw on the iPhone runnning version 2 of the OS. Apple representative, Jennifer Bowcock, told Macworld, that an update to the iPhone, version 2, that will be released in September will resolve it. Pressing the Emergency Call button, followed by 2 taps to the Home button will take you to the Favorites list on your iPhone with out asking for a password. Any information contained within those contacts, such as email addresses, phone numbers, URL's or text messages can be accessed without entering the pass code.

Well I had a 1st edition (2.5 Edge) Apple iPhone brought to me by a person who upgraded to the 3G model. They put in a new sim card and were going to give it to some. Problem was they did not erase it first and not were stuck with not being able to erase/restore it. Plugging the iPhone in and launching iTunes displayed a box stating that the iPhone could not be accessed because it was locked. It needed to have the PIN code entered. Not that it did not have the current subscribers sim card installed you can't enter the PIN code. So what to do? Well it's wasn't easy to deduce, but the following acrobatic maneuver worked. So here it is. There may be other ways. As the saying goes, "there is more than one way to skin a cat," whatever that means...