Well, I’ve distilled about 10 thread pages to the following LONG post. As noted above the firmware/software update was primarily security related. Those of us who have turned off wi-fi because of the most publicized problem are safe to turn it back on now.

Here\'s a link to what was covered in their security update.

There are a few application enhancements but we should not expect much more until Leopard is released in October (we hope – anyone else upgrading?).

It appears that people who hacked their phone have experienced problems. Otherwise the update went smoothly.

Sorry if some of this is a bit repetitive….anyway on to the excerpts…

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Bug fixes I've noticed thus far:

Google Maps: Before, if you used your fingers to stretch and expand a map, if you touched the URL or bottom bar, the map would shoot off to a new center. Very disconcerting. It doesn't do that now.

Calculator: The calculator used to do an annoying thing when you launched it and started punching numbers. Sometimes it would start concatenating to the end of whatever number was already on the screen from previous usage. Now, when launched, if you start tapping numbers, they replace what was already there. Nice.

Ear volume: My Iphone had "reasonable" volume in the ear speaker. It seems to be significantly louder. i tend to drop it down to 4 or 5 in normal room environment instead of 8 or so. Very nice.

Ipod Speaker volume: I can now play songs louder without as much distortion through speaker on bottom of phone. nice.

Ipod playing while surfing: Before, it you started the iPod playing and started surfing in Safari, within minutes especially if browsing a heavy javascript page, the music would crash and quit playing. I've been surfing and podding for 20 minutes with no crash. Very, very nice.

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There is now the OPTION in MAIL SETTINGS to BCC YOURSELF on all mail.
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Yahoo push seems to work better. I've had a delay but now they arrive almost instantly. Ayone else noticed this?
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My battery level now goes all the way to the top and the small batt icon at the top has a plug inside telling me it's fully charged. It's never done this on my phone!


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I notice that the iTunes window no longer opens up in the background whenever the iPhone is reconnected. That was annoying.
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PASSWORD LOCK can also now be set to REQUIRE PASSWORD up to 1 HOUR. Also a new feature.
my main issue was fixed, which is listening to music while browsing Safari. (without crashing of course)
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It now has options for 1, 5, 10, 15, 30 and 60 minutes unstead of just 1 - which is awesome BTW. Sorry if someone has mentioned this already.
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For those who are too lazy to read the whole thread,

IF YOU "HACKED" YOUR IPHONE (IE IFUNTASTIC) THEN YOU MUST RESTORE YOUR IPHONE!!!

For me this was both expected and not a big deal. Sure it made me spend the time to reload all the crap back onto my iPhone but that comes with messing around with stuff you "shouldn't".

I think we'll be seeing some more substantial updates in the weeks to come.

It looks like the update was probably rushed out because of the security issues that had been getting so much press as of late. The fix to the arbitrary code execution bug that was over the news was included in the update, along with 3 others that were not as publicized.

From the reports in the news, Apple was only told about the bug 14 days ago, so this is a pretty impressive turnaround on that front. I doubt that there will be a major update until Leapord arrives in October, although it is possible that they pushed this one out the door before the 2nd, and are saving the rest of the update the 7th.
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I don't know but i'm getting almost instant yahoo PUSH.
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Same with google mail. Fixed now.
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What I've noticed so far is ...
- iPod external speaker is much clearer at higher volumes
- scrolling on YouTube is much improved (the list would stall while loading thumbnails)
- scrolling through camera roll thumbnails is still chunky (40 pics)
- still can't rearrange Stocks list
- i'm not sure if google maps is any less jumpy with pinch zoom-outs. maybe a bit?
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There were 4 security issues listed as being fixed by this update. The ISE buffer overflow bug was one of them. It was a problem in the handling of regular expressions. Another one had to do with causing a race condition on page load using redirects allowing cross site scripting, and that one was discovered by three employees of Adobe.
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Hm... my whole system seems... faster...
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Holy Cow! I don't know if it's just me but Wifi works perfectly now! Before it would switch to edge before loading a page but now it is stuck on Wifi. I'm lovin it!
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