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iPhone Software Update 2.0
July 11th, 2008 @ 12:23:45 | iPhone, Mac
Belonging to the kind of neophiliacs who just can’t prevent the itch for new things as well as cannot rest until trying it out, I too connected my iPhone (the 2G version) to iTunes and hit the Update button. Things looked slow yet promising but then came a series of dreaded error messages (I should have figured that there are a few million others who are trying to do the same thing at about the same time and especially so after dear friend Amy warned me, but you know how it is with folks like us):
Following a how-to-do advise from Amy, I even took out the SIM card from iPhone and put it in my backup instrument but the itch just kept getting itchier. Few more tries and a bunch of error messages later, my iPhone finally – after about 2 hours of struggle and misery – synced up (being patient and some random luck helped I guess) and to say the least, I am very pleased with the added features – the color coded calendar display, some cool App Store Apps (AIM, YPMobile, SportsTap, Facebook, WeatherBug, NYTimes, ZipCode, Google, Remote, …) being my favorites so far.
Wish I could say the same about the whole update process though…
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I pushed update on my itunes and it said that 1.1.4 is the most up to date software. Why wont it go to 2.0?
@chinds57:
It happened to me once this morning but second time I hit Update, it did it – first to update was iTunes itself (a reboot) and then it did the iPhone part. Hope this helps you.
i downloaded 7.7 itunes but still nothing. I guess will try to be patient but it is hard when you are really excited about the update but too poor to buy the new phone
@chinds57:
Understand and totally feel that feeling – hope it works out for you soon
@Note2Self:
New York Times reported this about the whole iPhone saga.
Reading the last line, Bill Gates must be enjoying this one, I cannot help but wonder If Apple users started laughing at every missed step from Mr. Gates & Co., they would never stop laughing…
Couldn’t Apple have planned for the traffic? Someone in charge needs a slap on the wrist. After spending half the day working on getting the update to work (and getting my cell phone service back, I’m left feeling annoyed at the process.
However, I do like all of the updates to the software. Yeah, there are still a few things missing that I’d like to see, but I do think it’s an improvement.
Damn Apple, they’ve got us hooked on their products!
@amy:
I totally agree – guess we are all at the mercy of His Steveness & Co.
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