πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 (Big Bear) πŸ“Ί
Build - 5A347 was released 11 Jul, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

This update:
β€’ $9.95 - upgrade for iPod Touch (1st generation).
β€’ Added language support:
β€’ Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Dutch, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese language interface in iPhone, formerly these languages were only in the iPod Touch since 1.1.1
β€’ Extra keyboard languages including Chinese and Korean and Russian
β€’ Support for Traditional and Simplified Chinese handwriting recognition.
β€’ Mail, contacts, calendars
β€’ Grouped settings.
β€’ Mail
β€’ Push e-mail
β€’ Ability to select an outgoing email account within Mail application
β€’ Support for BCC in Mail application
β€’ Multiple email delete/move
β€’ Ability to view MS Office attachments
β€’ Ability to view iWork attachments, including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
β€’ Contacts
β€’ Contacts icon on "Home" screen (iPhone only, it was formerly on the iPod Touch)
β€’ Ability to search contacts
β€’ Global Address List
β€’ Push contacts
β€’ Ability to import SIM contacts.
β€’ Calendar
β€’ Multiple calendars supported in Calendar with colour-coding (desktop colours only preserved if using Mobile Me)
β€’ New "Calendar" menu in "Settings"
β€’ Push calendar.
β€’ Enterprise enhancements
β€’ Enforced security policies
β€’ Device configuration
β€’ Remote wipe.
β€’ iPod
β€’ Video can be shown in either landscape orientation (instead of just landscape left)
β€’ Videos in playlists & music videos can be shown in portrait or landscape orientation
β€’ Sound fade-out when exiting a video.
β€’ Other
β€’ App Store (to manage third-party applications) with home screen icon- Store for apps
β€’ Certificates and Identities
β€’ WPA2/802.1X
β€’ Ability to turn Wi-Fi back on while in Airplane mode
β€’ Cisco IPsec VPN support
β€’ Ability to take screen captures
β€’ Ability to save pics from Safari or Mail to Photos
β€’ Bonjour service discovery protocol
β€’ Support for SVG
β€’ Addition of Parental controls
β€’ Password letters are momentarily visible while typing
β€’ Ability to turn Location Services on or off
β€’ Applications that use Location Services now prompt user for confirmation 3 times
β€’ Tapping status bar to scroll to top shortcut
β€’ Updated calculator with extra features in portrait mode, a scientific calculator in landscape mode and an updated icon
β€’ Updated iTunes with a new icon and reordered category icons within iTunes application
β€’ Camera now supports Geotagging
β€’ YouTube plugin for Safari.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.0.1
Build - 5B108 was released 4 Aug, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

Resolved Issues:
β€’ Performance and stability of Contacts and Calendar applications dramatically improved
β€’ Performance while flipping to landscape mode in Safari improved
β€’ Performance in Mail app improved
β€’ Release improves application crash rates
β€’ Keyboard responsiveness improved.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.0.2
Build - 5C1 was released 18 Aug, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

Resolved Issues:
β€’ Improved communication with 3G networks
β€’ Transition from music list to Cover Flow has changed
β€’ Tilt to left from landscape no longer switch to portrait when watching video, fixes 2.0 bug
β€’ The "Update All" button in the App Store's update tab has been removed.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.1/2.1.1 πŸ“Ί πŸ“„
Build - 5F136 was released 9 Sep, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

Free for iPod Touch users who have upgraded to iPhone OS 2.0.

New Features & Changes:
β€’ Genius playlist creation
β€’ More information provided within iPod Music lists (artist and album are now shown below song title when selecting music in addition to remaining time on podcasts)
β€’ More information is provided for audiobooks, such as displaying time left in active audiobook
β€’ New podcasts and videos had "filled" blue bubbles next to them to indicate that they were new, now if you have "half-played" a podcast or video, it will include a half filled blue bubble
β€’ Sound from iPod now fades out if you start syncing device with iTunes
β€’ Bookmarked home screen apps open in full screen.

Companion changes in/with iTunes 8 for this release:
β€’ Displays capacity and used space of information on iPhone
β€’ Dramatically reduced time to back up to iTunes
β€’ Does not remove all media after restore
β€’ Faster firmware installation and data sync
β€’ Application updates downloaded from iTunes have new finder naming convention.

OS enhancements:
β€’ Triple-click on the control button of headphones now jumps music to prior track played
β€’ SMS app can alert up to two additional times if you don't acknowledge an incoming text message (will play the alert sound/vibrate again after a period of time as if a new message just came in)
β€’ Update supporting languages
β€’ Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts (after 5 attempts, the device will disable itself for 1 minute. After the 6th attempt, it will disable itself for 5 minutes. In the 10th attempt, it will wipe all data)
3G, EDGE, and GPRS indicators changed
β€’ The camera can now be turned off within the restrictions page
β€’ When taking a screenshot of your phone, there is now the camera shutter noise
β€’ iPhone never gets locked when placed in dock and playing music.

Bug fixes, performance enhancements:
β€’ Security fix to prevent from bypassing the double home button exploit
β€’ Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications
β€’ Faster installation and updating of 3rd party applications
β€’ Updating applications keeps their icons in place on the home screen
β€’ Improvements to Mail stability
β€’ Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
β€’ Faster loading and searching of contacts
β€’ Auto-correct now appears above the text instead of below (fixing a usability problem people were having where auto-correct would appear above the first row of keys)
β€’ Smoother browsing in Safari, particularly when scrolling up/down on a web page
β€’ Significantly better battery life for most users
β€’ Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
β€’ Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
β€’ Calculator bug fixed affecting calculations involving Pi.

iPod Touch (2nd generation) only:
β€’ Nike+ Support.

iPod Touch only:
β€’ Settings for individual speaker sounds. Sounds can no longer be turned off en masse. All sounds must be turned off individually to mute sounds
β€’ New speaker sound when sending mail.

Apple security updates:
β€’ iPod Touch
β€’ iPhone.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.2 πŸ“Ί
Build - 5G77 was released 21 Nov, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch 2G, 1G (1st gen.).

Free update for iPod Touch owners that upgraded to iPhone OS 2.0 or 2.1.

β€’ Enhancements to Maps:
β€’ Google Street View
β€’ Public transit and walking directions
β€’ Display address of dropped pins
β€’ Share location via email
β€’ Cache of recent locations.

β€’ Enhancements to Mail
β€’ Resolve isolated issues with scheduled fetching of email
β€’ Improved formatting of wide HTML email.

β€’ App Store:
β€’ "Categories" section has been altered to display icons instead of a list
β€’ Individual applications pages now have 'Tell A Friend' and 'Report A Problem' buttons
β€’ In an app's description, multiple screen shots can now be viewed, instead of just one
β€’ "Update All" button added to "Updates" section
β€’ Option added to rate an application that is about to be deleted
β€’ Improved touch response when purchasing or downloading an application
β€’ Application icons display the install progress "in place" while updating, rather than on the last position of the page.

β€’ Safari:
β€’ Improved stability and performance of Safari
β€’ Layout changes for the address bar in Safari.

β€’ iPod:
β€’ The edit/clear icons on the on-the-go playlist have been changed
β€’ Podcasts now are being shown in catalogs
β€’ Users can no longer delete audiobooks via the device
β€’ Audiobooks without artwork are now shown with a book icon instead of a note icon.

β€’ Contacts:
β€’ US phone numbers now group correctly. (e.g., 1111 2222, formerly this would have shown as 1 111222 2)

β€’ Other:
β€’ Decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
β€’ Improved sound quality of visual voicemail messages
β€’ Visual voicemail unavailability is shown in a screen instead of voicemail button not working
β€’ Improved performance overall, especially noticeable in Notes and Camera applications
β€’ Emoji for SoftBank users in Japan. Can also be enabled in all other countries using apps from the App Store
β€’ Pressing the Home button from any Home screen takes you to the first Home screen
β€’ Preference to turn on/off keyboard auto-correction
β€’ New languages are supported
β€’ Shows Update/Restore progress when update using iTunes
β€’ Security improvement
β€’ Developers can pipe video out to an external device
β€’ Better shift-key behavior
β€’ Automatic WebClip icon change
β€’ Locked screen screenshots
β€’ Ability to record from devices connected through the dock port.

β€’ iTunes:
β€’ iTunes now works over EDGE and 3G networks and no longer needs a Wi-Fi network
β€’ Podcasts are now available for download in iTunes application. (over Wi-Fi and cellular network)

β€’ iPod Touch (2nd generation) only:
β€’ Line-in audio has been enabled through the headphone jack
β€’ Add the Remote button to control other devices (e.g. Apple TV, etc.) on the Nike + iPod menu.

Apple security updates.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2.2.1 πŸ“Ί
Build - 5H11 was released 27 Jan, 2009 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch 2G, 1G (1st gen.).

This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
β€’ Improved general stability of Safari.
β€’ Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll
β€’ Updates baseband.

β€’ iPod Touch only:
β€’ Fixed issue that caused some Apple Lossless (ALAC) audio files to skip during playback.

β€’ iTunes 8.1:
β€’ Fixes calendar colour syncing issue. (Mac only)
β€’ Uses a new baseband which patches the exploit formerly used to unlock the iPhone 3G.

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