It’s been two weeks since iPhone 2.1 has come out. Everyone raved about how it fixed everything and the iPhone is now what it should have been since the original 2.0 software. The other day while cursing out my iPhone for the umpteenth time, I wondered if anyone else is still having issues with their phone. For me, the iPhone 2.1 update has a few of my issues, left many more still unfixed and introduced even more annoyances into my phone.

Okay, yes applications install faster and my backup goes quicker and I do get better 3G reception at work than I did before. These are all good things, however… my SMS application still takes up to 10 seconds to load, my phone still sometimes disconnects my call when I plug in my headphones and my iPhone still starts playing my iPod when my headphones are removed. Also now I seem to have MORE dropped calls, not less and those dropped calls seem to ONLY happen when I’m on with another AT&T subscriber and the changes they made to the SMS Preview function drive me simply mental.

It used to be that if you had a keylock set, you cold turn off the SMS Preview so that instead of saying the name of wo the SMS was from and the actual SMS message it would say the name of the sender and the words “Text Message”. This allowed me to look over and see if the SMS was from Twitter (meaning it could wait) or from a friend or family member (meaning it could not). Since the 2.1 update if you have the SMS preview turned off, it gives you a message that simply states “New text message received”. Which now means that I have to unlock my phone just to see who the message is from and if I need to answer it. Add to that the fact that my iPhone now reminds me every five minutes that I have an SMS I haven’t acknowledge and suddenly the phone that was the best phone I’ve ever used for SMS is now the most annoying.

I realize that these may be features that people requested, but why could they not have been an option? Why can’t I choose to have the SMS reminder sound? Why cant I have an option for more or less detail on my SMS Preview? I don’t want them to recall or change the features, just give me the choice of what works for me.