iPhone 2.1 Firmware Update Released: The big news for any IPhone 3G user over this weekend was that Apple have just released the latest firmware update for the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3G firmware version 2.1

The list of new and improved features is quite extensive:

• Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
• Significantly better battery life for most users
• Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
• Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
• Faster installation of 3rd party applications
• Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
• Improved performance in text messaging
• Faster loading and searching of contacts
• Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
• Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
• Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
• Genius playlist creation

Last week I wrote a review for The Business Travel Guru outlining some of the short comings of the IPhone 3G for corporate email users - iPhone 3G 7 Day Corporate Email Challenge a flop or a Windows Mobile killer?, the list was quite extensive, but from the looks 2.1 does not address many if not any of the short coming noted in my article, once I have this iPhone 3G update installed I plan to post a follow up of what if any corporate email i.e. Microsoft Exchange Activesync improvements have been included.

So if you have an iPhone 3G why not upgrade it to the latest firmware iPhone 3G 2.1, oh one thing to see and download this firmware you will first need to install iTunes 8.