iPhone Breaking News: FIRST iPhone update (1.0.1) released for security and bug fixes

Apple has just pushed out the very FIRST iPhone update 1.0.1, its been only a month since the iPhone launch so long awaited update might be an over kill. However based on the information available up till now the update seems to be fix for some of the bugs especially the iPhone's Safari flaw that lets hackers take control.

Based on initial information that is trickling in, quite a few iPhone users who had customized their iPhone's with one of those iPhone Hacks are reporting issues and seem to be forced into doing a restore to get the latest update which means all the iPhone Hacks are wiped out. However, folks at Engadget and Gizmodo have confirmed that iFuntastic 2.0 still works after the update.

Based on the security content of iPhone v1.0.1 Update, it appears that the main reason of the update is to fix the big security breach in Safari that allowed malicious pages to take control of your iPhone with some other bug fixes as well.

It definitely puts the iPhone hackers a few days back if they want to get the latest update. The important thing is no one has reported facing issues with the update other than the ones who had used one of the iPhone hacks and after the restore it worked perfectly fine as well. The update process is expected to take approximately 5 to 6 minutes.

Engadget are also speculating that there could stability related fixes in the update as well. As they have observed mobile Safari perform much better with eight full ajax pages open as we have since loading up 1.0.1. For more details follow this link.

Unfortunately no new features, widgets or applications has been identified so far with this update which is what I am sure all iPhone users were hoping for.

More images of the FIRST iPhone update process below:

[Images courtesy Engadget & Gizmodo]

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