iPhone 2.1: I Love you

Wow, what a difference a Firmware Upgrade makes!!! For the first time I can Use 3G all day long...I went from noon to aprox 10pm using my iPhone. I'll post more battery times this week when I'm working.

For all of those people who I told I hated my iPhone I love it now. I feel like I literally have a new iPhone.

What was fixed for me:

• Echo: I was getting a really nasty echo when using my iPhone. It seems to have gone away. When jumping between towers, 1 or 2 sentences might be echoed, but I use to have it where it echoed all of the time. YEA
• Battery Life: As I said above, 3g Battery life seems to have increased significantly
• Push: I will try to turn my push technology back on, as I can handle the battery life.
• Apps: With being able to turn 3g back on, the apps are know much more viable.
• Backup Time: Significantly reduced
• Contacts: They don't stick any more...Before, I'd have to wait 1 or 2 seconds before I could scroll through my contacts.
• Downloads: at 1.2mbps as apposed to 755 kbps (YEA)

All in all, Great work Apple, know if you could have done this for the 2.0 version, you would not have had all the bad press.

2.0.2 firmware: Battery Life with No 3g

Usage: 5 hours 52 minutes
Standby: 12 hours, 25 minutes

So 3G eats approx 30% more battery life than no 3g. Anyone besides me see an issue with that? Why would a company put out a product with this type of battery drain? If I have to plug it in, it isn't very portable.

2.0.2 firmware: 3g Battery life

So today, I fully charged, turned 3g on and didn't plug it in again.

Usage: 4 hours, 10 Minutes
Standby: 8 Hours, 56 Minutes

So I can use 3G for 4 hours, and then I get the 20% battery life message.

You make the decision, but being the Road warrior that I am, 4 hours just doesn't cut it.

Chime in, what are your times?

Let me know

2.0.2 Firmware: iPhone 3g Speed Tests

I know everyone is complaining about 3g speed on the iPhone. Where I'm sitting, on my couch, with 3 - 4 3G bars, I'm getting 1 mbps or .125 MBps which is pretty good in my estimation. My 3G cellular cards gets aprox 1.1 mbps.

Anyone else care to chime in? If you are looking for a good way to test the 3G, go to i.dslr.net/iphone_speedtest.html.

Let me know your speeds.