iPhone Modem Firmware

It's cool to have the iPhone and why not when your phone has a portable media player, wireless Internet access, visual voice mail, Wi-Fi connectivity, multi touch screen and many more other best iPhone apps which allow you to keep the world on your fingertips. However, it's the iPhone modem firmware that makes the work even easier for you.

A firmware is basically a set of operations and tools that allows you to access different features of the phone, fixes virus and bugs, and also monitors the functioning of the iPhones. It is named so because it is neither a software nor a hardware but it acts as the interface between the hardware that the phone uses and the software that runs the programs in the phone. Apple Inc. is the parent company of the iPhone who keep updating the iPhone software to provide the users with advanced facilities.

iPhone Firmware Update

The reason behind constant iPhone firmware versions lies in Apple's commitment to better customer service. It allows users to avail the latest changes in the technology. They can have the updated iPhone cool apps without changing their handset every time. All they have to do is update their firmware. The good news is that apple iPhone provides this update in the operating system for free. Follow the simple steps mentioned below and get your iPhone updated within few minutes.

• First, create the back up for all the information existing in your iPhone as uploading new operating system can delete the previous data.
• Once you create the back up, restore your settings to the original or default ones if you have installed in outside software such as games etc.
• Once the phone is restored and its memory is clean, connect it to the computer through USB and let the iTunes launch. It will show if the firmware upgrade is available and ask if you want to upgrade then obviously click 'yes'.
• Once the procedure starts allow the iTunes to upgrade the firmware. Once the process is complete iTunes will let you know. Now remove the phone from the computer and turn on the phone.
• Check if the firmware is upgraded properly by taping 'general' and 'about' as they would tell you latest update date and version number as well.

For this you just need to visit the authentic website and find out about the version you wish to download. With usual iPhone download procedure you can have the latest applications and tools on your iPhone. The latest iPhone modem firmware is 4.1(8B117). Given below is the firmware list that you can refer to check the graph of improvement so far.

Firmware List

• 1.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.1
• 1.1.1
• 1.1.2
• 1.1.3
• 1.1.4
• 1.1.5
• 2.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.2.1
• 3.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.1
• 3.1.2
• 3.1.3
• 3.2
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 4.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.1

All the above versions have only improved over the time with each version better than the previous one. Some of the versions helped only the iPhone but others could also support Apple iPod Touch and Apple iPad as well. Apart from this, iPhone has already made an announcement to launch a new operating system by November 2010 that would have the latest applications, such as iPod support, wireless printing with print center, text search on the web pages, and AirPlay that would offer the streaming of videos, photos, audios and music through Wi-Fi, etc.

After reading this article, I am sure you would love to buy the iPhone and get it regularly updated with latest firmware versions. Well it is certainly a good idea, so go ahead and bring the world closer to you.