Just upgraded the phone. Took about fifteen minutes to download and install once I'd got iTunes 9.2.
First impressions: very nice
I've spent an hour organising all my apps into folders, and am now down from nine screens to two. The folder thing is easy to use: just hold down an app icon for a second to go into "jiggle mode". When you drag an app onto another one, it creates a folder containing them and works out from the nature of the apps what a suitable title might be, although you can edit it then or later if you choose.
iBooks for iPhone seems OK with a few Project Gutenberg freebies.
Fast app switching (double-click the home button) works. Not a lot else to be said.
Mail threading seems to work, which is handy when most of your mail is from mailing lists. Dunno why they didn't have it before
The map view in the Photos app seems OK; however, I don't often take photos with my phone so it won't be of tremendous value to me
The first backup after the upgrade took longer than usual, so I assume it isn't an incremental one due to a change in file formats or something. I expect later backups to be quicker. That aside, syncing seems to be much faster.
I dropped a couple of PDS onto iTunes and they appeared in the new "Books" tab for the phone. Both were fine to read in iBooks, including a password-protected one. Hyperlinks (from the table of contents) within that book also worked OK.
I haven't got a Bluetooth keyboard, so I can't test that.
The spell checker now offers multiple suggestions when you tap a red-underlined word, which I don't think it did before.
Spotlight search has a nicer interface than before, and offers the option to search the web or Wikipedia instead (at the bottom of the list of results).
That's about all I've had a chance to play with so far, but generally speaking it's looking like a very good upgrade
Now, over to a bunch of people who go on about something their Nokia 666 could do in 1843, without realising that not only was it not the same thing, it also didn't work.
First impressions: very nice
I've spent an hour organising all my apps into folders, and am now down from nine screens to two. The folder thing is easy to use: just hold down an app icon for a second to go into "jiggle mode". When you drag an app onto another one, it creates a folder containing them and works out from the nature of the apps what a suitable title might be, although you can edit it then or later if you choose.
iBooks for iPhone seems OK with a few Project Gutenberg freebies.
Fast app switching (double-click the home button) works. Not a lot else to be said.
Mail threading seems to work, which is handy when most of your mail is from mailing lists. Dunno why they didn't have it before
The map view in the Photos app seems OK; however, I don't often take photos with my phone so it won't be of tremendous value to me
The first backup after the upgrade took longer than usual, so I assume it isn't an incremental one due to a change in file formats or something. I expect later backups to be quicker. That aside, syncing seems to be much faster.
I dropped a couple of PDS onto iTunes and they appeared in the new "Books" tab for the phone. Both were fine to read in iBooks, including a password-protected one. Hyperlinks (from the table of contents) within that book also worked OK.
I haven't got a Bluetooth keyboard, so I can't test that.
The spell checker now offers multiple suggestions when you tap a red-underlined word, which I don't think it did before.
Spotlight search has a nicer interface than before, and offers the option to search the web or Wikipedia instead (at the bottom of the list of results).
That's about all I've had a chance to play with so far, but generally speaking it's looking like a very good upgrade
Now, over to a bunch of people who go on about something their Nokia 666 could do in 1843, without realising that not only was it not the same thing, it also didn't work.
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