Analysis of iPhone firmware 1.0.2 shows not much room for anything new

Nate True has analyzed the files changed by the iPhone 1.0.2 firmware update, and it doesn’t look like there is really any room for new features given that it’s just over 3MB. A few files got a little bigger, the kernel actually got smaller, and they seemed to do a little cleanup. Not too surprising then that few improvements or bug fixes have been observed, and it seems likely that at least a few of those were wishful thinking.

4 Responses to “Analysis of iPhone firmware 1.0.2 shows not much room for anything new”


  1. 1 bill read

    One new feature I’ve noticed is that you can now zoom in on HTML mail with a double tap. Before it never seemed to recognize column widths in mail- it always seemed to zoom to the total message width. Maybe this isn’t new, but it plagued me until this update.

  2. 2 Joe Walsh

    You make it sound like the iPhone is tapped out on features. Like there is no more space to add stuff? Anyway, your little paragraph is hardly worth reading…

  3. 3 malaka

    He means, there is hardly any space in the UPDATE for momentous changes… as it is merely 3.6 Mb

    And your paragraph was hardly worth typing

  4. 4 eas

    Thank you, malaka.

    Bill, it’s interesting that you mention that. Something seemed a little less annoying about reading some HTML mail messages sometime between 1.0.0 and 1.0.2, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

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