iOS 5.1 niceties

It's about a week since I migrated my iPhone from iOS 5.0.1 to iOS 5.1. Similar experience as when migrating from 5.0 in that battery time has improved again. I'd say it's about 100% better, which means battery time has become acceptable. That means a lot to most of us, i.e. those of us who are old enough to have owned a stupid phone (= not smartphone) with battery times of a week or more.

The second most popular feature is probably that the camera is available straight from the lock-screen. There's an icon to hint at how to open the camera: you can simply sweep the screen in the vertical direction to open the camera app. That's a typical Apple solution: simple and elegant and obvious.