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Apple Offers iPhone Firmware 2.1 To Set Things Right
Two months and one day after the 3G iPhone's release, Apple took steps to fix a number of problems that the device has suffered in the first two months it has been on the market. The firmware update fixes the following:
In the hour or so that I've been playing with the iPhone since updating it, I've definitely witnessed some of these fixes. The contacts application performs much faster, the text messaging application loads conversations faster and is more responsive, and the time to back up has been cut down buy at least half. These issues aren't all that firmware 2.1 offers. It also makes a number of security fixes as well. MacWorld reports that, "Changes have been made to improve security with the iPhone's network connectivity. mDNSResponder has been updated to reduce susceptibility to DNS cache poisoning. TCP initial sequence numbers are now randomly generated, to thwart remote attackers from spoofing TCP connections. The Passcode Lock feature is used to keep users from making accessing the iPhone without entering a multi-digit code. That feature could be thwarted thanks to an exploit involving the handling of emergency calls; that has been corrected. WebKit on the iPhone has also been updated to address an issue associated with the handling of Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) import statements. Document reference handling has been improved to prevent this problem from occurring." All of the above makes for a much more stable and usable phone. So far. « Kazeon Discovers Virtual Machines | Main | Could There Be More To Google, Android, Chrome, & Gears Than Meets The Eye? » |
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