Apple posts iPhone Firmware update 2.1

Apple has posted the promised iPhone Firmware update 2.1 which was announced during Tuesday's "Let's Rock" special event.

>iPhone Firmware 2.1

iPhone version 2.1 contains many bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
- decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
- significantly improve battery life for most users
- dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
- improve email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts
- faster installation of 3rd party applications
- fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes if you have lots of 3rd 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

The update is build 5F136 weights about 270MB. It can be downloaded only through iTunes by hitting the "Check for updates" button.