iPhone software 2.0
Thursday, July 10th, 2008This morning I upgraded my first-gen iPhone to the 2.0 software, using the process described here.
The update took maybe 30 minutes. I was not prompted to backup my settings or media, so make sure you perform a sync before updating.
Some initial observations:
- Adding my Exchange account was painless (especially compared to adding the same account using IMAP).
- Exchange ActiveSync works great. I’m getting emails on my phone before I receive them on my laptop.
- Syncing your Exchange calendar erases all other calendars from the phone and disables calendar syncing within iTunes.
- If you aren’t syncing an Exchange calendar, the phone now provides access to all of your iCal calendars, including Entourage (if you have enabled iCal syncing within Entourage).
- The AppStore is working (from the phone at least). So far I’ve installed Twitterrific, Remote, Google Mobile App, and AP Mobile News.