Apple today released iPod touch v2.0 software.
iPod touch owners can purchase the upgrade for their Touch for US$9.95.
The software update includes push email with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, contact search, multiple calendars, a scientific calendar, improved Mail attachment viewing, better email management (including bcc for emails), and user-selectable accounts for replying to email as well as updated language, keyboard, and dictionary support (English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Russian, and Polish) pus the new features added in the January ’08 update: Google Maps, Mail, Weather, Web Clips, a customizable Home screen and more.
More info and iTunes Store link here.
[Attribution: MacNN. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Mac Genius” for the heads up.]
Just downloaded 2.0 for iPhone
Got the restart page (pic of plug in to iTunes) & now it is eternally suck in “Accessing iTunes Store”
WTF? my iPhone is useless now. Anyone else getting past this?
Unforunately, at 9:13 am EDT the iTunes store is temporarily unavailable.
Been trying for last 20 minutes to “Learn More” about it to buy, just get an error that the store is unavailable. Running 7.7 iTunes…. everything updated (except my Touch). Must be some heavy demand for the upgrade.
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The Dude abides.
8:14 am CDT
“unavailable”
Accept that the iTunes store is down.. so it’s there.. you just can’t have it right now.
Shit, now I checked again and I get the message “This version of the iPod software (1.1.4) is the current version)
Common Apple… get it together.
The Dude abides.
Wow…. need my coffee… “Come on Apple…” it should have read.
The Dude abides.
Yep.. now it’s no longer available.
Be patient!
You may need to wait on iTunes after the updater!
Just wait! The spinning ball will stop, it just depends on how big your library is.
Its not spinning ball.
After 2.0 upload, the phone is bricked until it reconnects with Apple
“Accessing iTunes Store” in the iTunes window. Over 20 minutes now.
Checking on MacRumors, everyone is having this problem
breathe folks…your precious email and phone will come back soon enough. Believe it or not, you will continue to live even though your phone may not be accepting incoming calls for the time being.
Right about now people in Microsoft and RIM are having a good chuckle. Nice way to roll out an upgrade Apple.
The past 3 days have been uneasy to say the least in having any sort of trust in Apple being a major player supporting corporate America. Where is the communication? Where is release notes? This is ridiculously badly run rollout and if I ran a project like this at work I’d be fired.
Perhaps Itunes shouldn’t be used as the “NOC” so all things Iphone
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Only Apple could release something so revolutionary, so widely coveted and accepted, and yet still show a dip in stock value. I don’t have any AAPL, but I’ve been watching it for a long time now and just do…not…understand the market people at all. The only reasonable excuse may be the falling of Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae, but, as you all know, Apple’s stock value always chokes near a product release.
Unavailable.
It’s not like they haven’t had time to prepare for this. Weird.
The buggy Spirit of Leopard still reigns in Cupertino. May it pass.
i got the unavailable message, but after restarting iTunes about four times and retrying to start the link it finally worked on an iTunes restart! My phone is now restoring from backup!!
I can’t wait to see the scientific calendar.
brik’d as well
I can’t wait to use my phone again. I’ll wait to update my Apple TV.
Um, people – when millions of people are hitting servers for the same thing (v2.0 upgrade) it is going to be unavailable. Buggy software has nothing to do with it.
That aside I really want my upgrade. Now.
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Patience is a virtue I don’t have
Apple should have released 2.0 a few days earlier for existing owners – avoided problems. Waiting on error -9838
It finally worked! I had the same problem many users are having this morning. I just had to keep turning iTunes off and then on again. It took about 10 times.
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I just tried, the second time I looked the download was there. It downloaded without problems, backed up no problems, showed icon on iPhone to plug in to iTunes etc. was already in dock. Then it took a while to get past the restore and then verifying iPhone software. Restoring iPhone firmware. Then to factory settings, plug in icon again, and finally an error message. 9838 iTunes store could not complete your request pleas try again later.
another 6 quid after I already paid to get 1.1.4, apple really do take the piss
@andy
I’m interested in some of these new features, but it’s also the scientific calendar that most piqued my interest. Do you suppose it’s Mayan?