iPhone 2.0, day two
Written on July 13, 2008 by Katherine W. Prawl
When I signed off last night, the 2.0 software update was still downloading. It took quite some time, and then updating the phone took another interminable period, but finally it finished. I had a bit of a scare when it told me it had to authenticate (or whatever the word was), but that didn’t take too long, thank goodness. I had nightmares of three or four days, like it took when I first bought the original phone last year on its introduction, but apparently Apple has learned from the past experience and it only took a few moments.
While I’d been waiting for the new version, I’d looked at the new Apps Store in iTunes, and had a handful of applications picked out to try once the update completed. Sure enough, I filled up over a page on the home screen with icons for freebies, and even paid small fees for a couple of apps that looked particularly useful. One, called iTimeZone, may just finally be the solution to my habitual confusion over time zone differences for meetings in Second Life, which are based on Pacific Time but which are attended by people from about 5 or 6 other time zones. This widget lets me enter a target time, and shows what time that is in whatever other time zones I choose. So there are no calculations to get confused. It remains to be seen whether I actually use it, but for US$1.99, even if I forget about it it’s no great loss.
So, roughly 24 hours after getting into the iTunes update, everything is working as advertised with my upgrade. I hope others have had similarly positive outcomes.
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