Review: iPhone 2.0 software update

The 2.0 software update for the iPhone (and iPod touch) is a major improvement over the operating system on the original iPhone, adding dozens of new features and refining several old ones. Dan Moren looks at the changes.

Review: Bloomberg 1.1 for iPhoneOverall, this financial news app works well, provides a ton of useful data, and does so without any intrusive advertisements. If you work in or around the financial markets, Bloomberg is well worth the minimal download time.
Review: Comic Touch for iPhoneLots of nice touches and a good dose of humor help make Comic Touch a fun addition to your iPhone collection. However, you’ll need patience to figure out of all of the photo editor’s tricks.

Product	Rating
iPhone 16GB
iPod shuffle, second-generation 2GB
iPod touch 32GB
iPod nano, third-generation (3G) 8GB
iPod nano, third-generation (3G) 4GB
iPod classic (6G iPod) 80GB
iPod classic (6G iPod) 160GB
iPod touch 8GB
iPod touch 16GB
iPhone 8GB
iPod shuffle, second-generation 1GB

Downgrading the iPod touch
If you've upgraded your iPod touch to the 2.0 software and would like to return to the days of 1.1.4, here's how.
Headphone Buyer's Guide
Earbuds or headphones? Full-size or miniature? No matter what kind of listening hardware you like to plug into your iPod (or iPhone), Dan Frakes has some advice and recommendations for finding the perfect pair.
iPod touch and the missing apps
Where, oh where, have the iPod touch's January applications gone?
Bugs & Fixes: Apple TV network and authorization hassles
Is your Apple TV not showing up in iTunes? Are you getting error messages when you attempt to sync your Apple TV? Ted Landau covers these troubles in the latest installment of Bugs & Fixes.
Playlist: Sing along with your iPod
Lots of CDs provide the lyrics in the liner notes, but songs purchased from the iTunes Store or ripped from your CDs don’t include that information in the file. Nevertheless, iTunes and your iPod can still help you sing along.

Is the iPod touch 2.0 update worth $10?
iPod touch users can download the iPhonde 2.0 software for $10. Christopher Breen contemplates whether this update is worth your hard-earned sawbuck.
Opinion: Apple TV as a TiVo-killer
If Apple wants its “hobby” product line to take off like the iPod, it has to acknowledge the hole in the Apple TV’s functionality and create a real DVR.
Apple is music industry’s Public Enemy No. 1
So long, file-sharing. Dan Moren says Apple has supplanted piracy as the music industry’s biggest nemesis.
The Apple of the future
The Apple of five years from now will most certainly be different from the Apple of today. But as Dan Moren suggests, it probably won’t be a future anybody can predict.
I spy
They're not so far apart, the James Bonds and Bruce Waynes of the world—they're two sides of the same coin. But regardless if you opt for the "heads" of government-sponsored espionage or the "tails" of vigilante-style street justice, you'll want to be well equipped.