Updated my iPod Touch to the latest iPhone 2.0 software

I couldn’t wait and upgraded the iPod Touch as soon as the upgrade was made available. The iPhone, bought in U.S., is still running the old ROM, as I guess I have to wait for a hack to be made available.

My first impression was that this software upgrade should have been free for those of us that already had bought Mail, Todo and Google Maps. But ok, 10 dollars are not much these days … . There were not many noticeable changes for me, as wireless was already working and I was already using the Installer. I guess I’m first to go wow Monday morning, connecting to the WPA Enterprise network we have at work. I change that I did notice at once, was the far better Norwegian translations!

One of the first things that I will do at work next week, is to write user manuals (in both Norwegian and English) for the inbuilt VPN client and the enhanced WPA support. I am looking forward to finally be able to use the iPod (and later the iPhone) at work, Mail has a close to perfect IMAP implementation. Far superior to any embedded device that I have tried, and that is quite a few!

But for now I will write some lines about my first impressions of the App Store and the applications you can find there today. But before I start, I should say that I have not tried any of the commercial applications available in the App Store, that I will first do when I have upgraded my iPhone with the latest ROM.

The first thing that I noticed was that the App Store was far better to navigate then Installer, and the integration with iTunes and iTunes Music Store is perfect. It just reminds me why most people still are willing to pay for software, most open source software have a not to user friendly interface!

Having said that, don’t rush in to upgrading to iPhone 2.0 if you are using many of the applications that were available on the Installer, as only a few of them are available on the App Store. All the applications that were available through the Installer, must be rewritten to work on 2.0, but I guess in time most of them will find it’s way in to iTMS.

I have started playing with some of these early applications, NetNewsWire, Express, Exposure, eReader, Evernote, iPint, NYTimes and Remote. iPint is “spamware” (I know, one of my terms) and will find it’s way out of my iPod fast …

I guess most Mac users will love having their favorite RSS reader available on their iPhone, and I can only hope that Vienna gets ported to the iPhone as well.

There is a few applications that I miss not having available on the iPod: RagingThunder, iChabber, Fring and not to forget MobileScrobbler. As many of you perhaps know, I am a great fan of Last.fm.