Apple releases iPod 1.0.1 firmware update; improves UI speed in new iPod classic, nano

Apple “has released a 1.0.1 firmware update to the iPods, which is available through iTunes. The description merely says ‘bug fixes,’ but we have received many reports that it improves vastly UI responsiveness,” Jacqui Cheng reports for Ars Technica.

“This is a major update, in our mind, as it improves one of the greatest pitfalls of the new iPod classics… The firmware update also applies to 3G iPod nanos, which also appears to improve the (less noticeable) lagginess,” Cheng reports.

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “King Mel” for the heads up.]

11 Comments

  1. Seriously… I was playing with the iPod classic at the local Apple Store the other day. Trying to use the new cover flow feature was almost painful; I thought there was something wrong with the display model. This fix should definitely help make it “snappier.”

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