With the recent release of Snapture 2.1, I was finally free to upgrade my iPhone firmware over the weekend. I’ve heard lots of people claim to have better battery life with this upgrade. Personally, I was looking to have my apps crash a whole lot less. So far, that hasn’t been the case. I started put getting better performance and fewer crashes, but now I’ve settled back into random startup failures of both app store and Cydia apps. Either I have a bum iPhone, or the 2.1 firmware didn’t address this issue as well as stated. I guess only time will tell for sure if this issue will ever be fixed for good.

In a recent announcement from Snapture Labs, the creators of Snapture camera software for the jailbroken iPhone, an issue related to stability while running in the 2.1 firmware was addressed.  The following email was sent out to the users of their software:

Dear Users,

Many of you have experienced trouble running Snapture on iPhone firmware version 2.1, this is a known problem. Apple has done quite a lot of changes on the new firmware so we will need to make significant changes to our software as well.

Please be patient, we’re working hard on it.

Best regards,
The Snapture Team

As an avid user of the Snapture software, I know what this means to my plans for upgrading to 2.1.  It looks like I’ll be holding off another little while to wait for the creators to fix their bugs.  I did it before with the 2.0 release, so chances are I’ll be alright waiting it out for the 2.1 version upgrade. Besides, with the rate of firmware releases at Apple, is it really in our best interest to be on the bleeding edge of technology if we expect our jailbroken apps to continue working normally?  Me, I choose to see how others are doing with the upgrades before jumping into it myself.  What are your thoughts?

To check on the progress being made by the Snapture Labs team, check their site at http://www.snapturelabs.com/faq.html.