iPhone 3G and firmware 2.0: one week later
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jul 18th 2008 12:13AM
posted Jul 18th 2008 12:13AM
The most prevalent complaint we've been hearing from users concerns ongoing issues with the phone's new firmware, which has delivered on a lot of its promises, yet is also exhibiting frustrating bugs that make us think this one needed a little more time in the oven. In particular, we've experienced -- and have been assailed with reports about -- painful lag times when typing, as well as choppy, clunky behavior while scrolling through or searching contacts, calls which can't be answered, and even outright crashes while receiving a call. Some owners have encountered repeated forced quits while trying to use the App Store, while a group of our editors vented about an SMS issue which not only grinds the phone's performance to a halt, but makes the keyboard inaccessible altogether.
When you toss in problems other users are having with email, MobileMe syncing, and assorted minor kinks (trouble rotating Safari anyone?), it seems obvious that there's cruft beneath this firmware creating hiccups in usability. Coupled with 3G reception concerns, the company's continuing struggle to get MobileMe working as advertised, and rumors that 2.0.1 is already in the works, you get the impression that everyone is looking for a little relief here... Apple and its customers alike.
So, how's your first week been?
I've been waiting to update until reports just as this came out and they fix them.
I'd say the only problem I've had so far is a little lag here and there. Nothing serious. Not even anything worth posting about. Glad I am one of the lucky ones though. I believe consumers (like myself) are so inpatient that companys try their best to deliver before maybe something is ready to ship. In my experience of buying so many damned electronics over the past years, the one thing I can say for sure, is that Apple will make it right. This thing is their baby, and they won't let us down. I can deal with VERY occasional slowdown of my phone because I'm certain its just temporary. My PC running Vista at work on the other hand... LOL I kid, sorta.
AJC
Anyone else catch the story from one of the App dev's, basically talking smack about Apple's deep need for secrecy preventing them from doing simple stuff like actually beta testing their product before it's release date. Apparently users alike are pissed at most app's buggy and half baked performance, and at least one dev has stood up and said "hey, don't blame us. Apple makes it next to impossible to do any sort of quality control on new launches like this."
As if like clockwork, a few minutes after reading the story I noticed there was an update out for two of my apps, one being Facebook, which now run much better and have features that should have been in the initial release. I think I'm starting to see how frustrating it must be for third parties to work with Apple on new products like this.
@AJC
Is it that consumers are so impatient, or is it that companies hype it up so much that consumers then become impatient? That's what marketing is all about...creating a frenzy so people "have to have" your product. They set the release deadlines themselves...perhaps thinking they'll have a product ready, but in the end, they choose to release their product as is ...or they have the option of delaying the release but then they'd be called Asus or MSI :)
What I love about the bad times that Apples is going through is that people can now realize that every company is vulnerable. Sometimes, big success comes with pain.
Recently happened to Firefox with their download record and has happened forever to Microsoft, because it is a successful company.
I am not a fanboy, I do not hate neither love these companies. I have an iPhone 3G, I use Windows Vista on a daily basis (and like it). I have Ubuntu on my office's PC and all of them can live side by side.
I hope Apple fixes their problems soon, and that people stop complaining about too much iPhone posts on Engadget. Just don't read them!
I've upgraded and my phone doesn't make coffee, read my mind or pay my bills - Apple are so slack! C'mon guys can we get back to the real world...'omg' my SMS has been delayed by a couple of seconds call the papers!
@ OP...
keep waiting.... i don't have problems... and i use nearly every single feature. and i also don't buy with the expectation of perfection either.
this thing is far easier to use than my blackberry... i wanted to break it everytime i had to do anything on it.
i hated it so much i reassigned it to an assistant... and she equally hates it... but that's how employee hazing goes.
Finally caved the other day and upgraded my iPod Touch to 2.0...mainly for the "Remote" app. and the "Pandora Radio" app...the $10 was well worth having my Pandora Radio on my iPod...quite possibly the greatest application I've come across thus far and I highly recommend upgrading for all those thinking about it...
The iPod touch seems to be running smoothing and I have not come across any glitches/bugs/problems...this is the only Apple product I have ever bought (being a computer programmer for Lockheed, or any programmer for that matter, has instilled a bias leaning away from Apple) and as much as it hurts to say...I am becoming quite the fan of it's usability in everyday life...
Don't blame you for waiting.
All these Apple fanboys give RIM crap about pushing their release date to make sure the best possible product is released... and praise Apple for sticking to their release dates when they should have pushed their release date and shipped out a solid product...
Ironic.
Forgive me for finding a bit of joy in this debacle.
- Dropped calls on 3G
- Sometimes i can't answer a call when the screen was off
- Very slow when pulling up contacts from SMS
- Very slow scrolling through contacts page
- SMS defaults to message field everytime you add someone to the SMS (so you have to keep re-selecting the To: field to add someone else
- Very slow typing (i can hit all the keys and then 10-15 seconds later the screen catches up and shows all the keys being hit)
And to all the haters commenting in this post... I'm glad Engadget wrote this post and I hope to God that Apple's reading it so that they can make a f*cking checklist and get all this sh*t resolved ASAP...
The only issue I've had with the new iphone is reception. It's a bit iffy at times but for the most part I have no real complaints. I have seen the lag and quite honestly, sure, it shouldn't be there at all but whatever, its not a dealbreaker by any means. I can wait for an update to fix it. So far this is the most useful, intuitive, and fun to use cell phone that I have ever owned, and I have owned several on multiple networks.
my week´s been pretty good. just hanging out, watching the tube. nothing too cool. what bout you engadget?
"Engadget is busy at the moment. Currently the staff is generating the next three hundred and fifty five coming topics about the iPhone 3G, the process shouldn't take longer than a year or so. Please leave a message after the silent tone, or visit our temporary website at www.apple.com"
Rank me down, or else...
Oh you know, just sitting by the pool. Chasing the muff around.
start your week with a iphone 3G story and end it with another iphone 3G sorry. i thought its engadget.apple.com not www.apple.com
someone keep track of the amount of iphone posts they average per day.
:(
i can understand..a post a day.. but. this is overkill. for christ's sake. the damn thing is a phone. how about writing a story on.. UM. something important?
like..finding me a site that tells me if optimum online throttles torrents (dling a 29gb torrent of battlestar galactica, and it's taking days)
please?
just trying to divert attention from the fact that the sheer amount of articles posted on this fucking site about the iphone is more then sufficient.
@Zach
I recommend you visit www.dslreports.com for your needs.
slow typing ftl
also lags when you push teh home button!
2.0 slowww
both me and my wife are experiencing the typing lag issue. It's terribly annoying. really hope a fix is released soon.
same here, typing and contacts lag
I had the typing issue on the v1 phone with the firmware I got on Friday morning. After doing a restore with the right firmware on Saturday the typing issue went away for me.
It's actually the first thing i read about any problem concerning the iPhone 3G. I've had 0 problems whatsoever with the new version. I live in Canada and I've been using the old (software unlocked) iPhone since December and last Friday I bought the iPhone 3G. The only problem I had with the phone is when I restored it with my backup from the old one using itunes. It worked flawlessly except that I was unable to access the 3g network after the restore. I restore it with the stock firmware and i just synced my contacts instead and it works great. No lag, safari seems to crash a lot less now, love the new search tool in the contacts (its fast as hell and I have like 200 contacts with 2 to 5 numbers each, address, email, pictures, etc) no lag there either. Interestingly, I have a mazda 3 with a dock connector and the new 3g iphone wont recharge when i plug it in, it says that the device doesnt support recharching but the music works great (my old phone used to recharche but it would get CRAZY hot so i guess its a good thing)! I used to have problems with the some keyboard lag in the sms app with my old phone (1.1.4) but again no lag at all with my new phone! What else... the weather app has a lot more canadian cities now so thats great too, the app store is great i've downloaded tons of app. I had a strange behavior with the installed app, i was at one of my friends and I was trying to show him an app and it wouldnt open, i then tried other app... same thing so I deleted one app, went to the app store and dowloaded it again. The strange thing here is I had to enter my login again which never happened for the past 2 days but I didnt realised at first. The app I just redownloaded worked and all the others too. Is it normal? Do we have to be connected to the app store so that our app works? Anyway havent got any problems with the app store since!
Still have problems with the credit card validation process in mobileme. My brother has .mac account and has been upgraded to mobileme, works great, but i cant upgrade it to the family edition (i want the push email thing you see, works great on his phone). Anyway i can wait a couple of weeks or so!
Hope you guys get an update soon if you have problems with 2.0!
My iPhone experience should hopefully start tomorrow if they have some in stock....
Thank god my Verizon contract is not up until Dec. Hopefully Apple will have fixed the too many issues being reported in this thread. Especially the "my iPhone is at the 20% warning by afternoon" so many Applelets are complaining about. I do have much time to investigate other phones as well. Hell, my first Gen Q works better those most people's 3G iPhone. Also, I do not understand that when it comes to phone features, why is Apple still in the dark ages???
I have been experiencing painful lag times when using SMS, force quit on the internet, poor 3G reception... I'm pretty bummed having waited outside of the Seattle AT&T store just to be disappointed... Other than that, I love the phone!
A lot of people seems to have problems with the 3G reception! I live in Canada near Montreal and the 3G reception is always great (same for my brother and 2 of my friends) At least Rogers got something right ;) Although it can take a couple of seconds to kick in sometimes!
Hey Bryan, I was there as well...Mine has actually been working great, some app crashes, but nothing like other problems people are having.
I noticed when an app is downloading or installing it cripples the rest of the phone. Its fine once its finished but it can be annoying to wait for each app when browsing the store and trying out free apps.
Other than that some apps seem to freeze up every so often and even holding down the button doesn't do much. Resetting does.
Text messages seemed to be less responsive too but I think I found the problem there was I had a few conversations with people not in my contacts list and I think the phone continuously checks to match the number with a name.
Anyway other than that everything has been good on my 8Gb Edge phone, I am really struggling to find a reason to upgrade to the 3G phone. I'll probably bite when/if a GPS turn by turn app comes out.
Agreed. The software seems like a good enough upgrade for me. Turn by turn would certainly sway my though.
Really? I haven't heard that one before. Mine is just fine when the new app is downloading/installing, and I can even have more than one installing at a time.
This isn't necessarily for you, but I just wanted to remind everyone:
*ATTENTION* IF YOU DOWNLOADED THE PRE-RELEASE/UNOFFICIAL 2.0 FIRMWARE, YOU NEED TO RESTORE YOUR iPHONE! The unofficial 2.0 firmware ( "1,2" in its name instead of "1,1") was never meant to be used on a production iPhone. It is a DEBUG BUILD and therefore makes your iPhone/iPod Touch incredibly slow and laggy as the debug/tracing code is running every time you do anything!.
FYI: I did use the official release.
The applications that come with iPhone had been behaving relatively well. Downloaded application (by third party) had been crashing here and there. Not sure if it's OS related or poor written app. The OS had also been spontaneously rebooting once a day or so. O well. Being an seasoned early adopter, I'm perfectly okay with this. As long as they release the first patch in the next month or so.
Totally agree with you! When they just release a major update so small problems are acceptable if they take care of them in a month or so! Though I have no problem with 2.0 nor the 3g iPhone!
I only have an iPod touch for now, but 2.0 is amazing. I don't even use a computer anymore :)
The apps are great. Few bugs at first but they're all worked out. I really am impressed at apple's ability to great this great mobile platform.
I can't wait for next weeks topics:
The iPhone - 3 Weeks Later
How Would you Change The iPhone 3G?
Still not got iPhone 3G
iPhone 3G v iPhone 3G: fight
The iPhone - 4 weeks later
Rumours of iPhone 3 surface
I'm set up for disaster, uhoh.
haha, soooo true. How many iPhone 3G articles are really necessary here? This device isn't all that much different from the original, just faster speeds. 'Tis all.
I can totally see "iPhone 3G V. iPhone 3G .... fight!" --- *yawn*
Or what about
iPhone 3G vs. Nokia N95 8GB North American....
Last year, I picked up the Nokia N95 (Original non US 3G version) because I couldn't wait for the iPhone. I then eventually got the iPhone.
I then bought a new Nokia N95 8GB with North American 3G and (call me stupid) the iPhone 3G 8GB (about a month in between).
While I really like both phones, I like that out of the box I can plug in my Nokia N95 8GB 3G to my Windows PC and tether with my 900kbps download speed.
I like both machines, but the N95 just ends up in my pocket more frequently (also probably because it has the phone number that everyone knows vs NEW iPhone with NEW phone number).
Anyway - I've only had the choppiness of the typing. But I haven't added any 3rd Party apps and I get consistent 3G coverage. Hope it all works out soon.
You forgot.....
Even though we are the same people who complained when Apple didn't allow 3rd party apps on the 1st iPhone, we're not hypocrites when we complain when Apple's fears of instability come to pass.
@Joshua.JWilliams
"I can totally see "iPhone 3G V. iPhone 3G .... fight!" --- *yawn*"
(at Engadget HQ): "Hey, wait a second...
Ah, what the hell, let's try it anyways."
I think you're right, Decoy. Engadget do seem to be flogging a dead horse now.
As long as people keep clicking and commenting on them, they'll keep writing them.
SMS keyboard is laggy at times and requires me to turn off the phone to solve the problem. Also Mobileme syncing on the PC has troubles at times and apparently the mobileme service is "under maintenance" alot which is F'ing up the syncing.
Compared to all the stuff I've been reading about issues, I've had a comparatively easy time with it. (Granted, I've only dealt with the 2.0 update on my first-gen iPhone and I'm not a MobileMe member.)
Probably the only major issue I've had with 2.0 is the keyboard lag, but it only occurs occasionally. For me, the "official" 2.0 upgrade fixed the serious contact-scrolling lag I was seeing in the "leaked" version.
I'm seriously considering upgrading to iPhone 3G soon, provided my local Apple Store has them in stock, so I guess I'll just have to see if I have more hardware than software problems.
Tons and tons of application crashes, the pity that I needed the copy and paste function TWICE but is not supported, the extremely painful lag when typing in Japanese font with the dictionary, and less than stellar battery life are really bothersome, but I still enjoy using the iPhone. It works very well as a phone for me... I just really want a stability update.
I had a problem with MobileMe syncing. I wrote to them but by the time the answered back I had already figured it out. Who knew that just by my having the first two letters of my email account it would cause MM not to sync to my phone. I thought it was weird considering that when my account was set up it contained the first two letters in cap. Aside from MM my phone is sluggish and oddly the OS on my old iPhone is faster. Less sluggish.
I experience almost ALL of these symptoms. Never really bothered me enough to regret buying the iPhone.... Simply because they will all be fixed, besides ATT's reception. Which will always be terrible.
I found out today that my iPhone 3G shipped with firmware 2.0 (build 5A345). I was having all kinds of quirky problems.. apparently build 5A347 is the latest. I updated it tonight, and so far it's behaving much better.
I noticed after my restore that Twitteriffic was not reinstalled... I wonder if that was causing my troubles..
I did the restore too. I'm running the 5A347 build but I still get the lags when typing and it very annoying.
I've had the phone working since Friday 1PM. (didn't have any issues getting it activated by iTunes, just plugged it in, accessed and started uploading contacts, email accounts and music). I have loved my first week, I downloaded i think about 20 apps, some free - some paid. I loaded 4Gb of music, 2Gb of video. I tried pretty much every function of the iPhone.. And i didn't get a single problem. Maybe it's luck, or maybe it's just not using the phone to create problems (opening and closing while in the middle of an operation several applications) and turning it off every 2 days or so, just to make sure it's reset.
I have loved the battery life, the functions, the screen and how responsive and intuitive it is. I played Poker while waiting for my girlfriend to get her nails done.. watched a few tv shows.. it's just a sweet phone. I used to have the N95 8GB, which in my opinion is stille the best phone I have ever had feature wise, but the UI kept stopping me from using all those features.. the iPhone, by the way it's set up makes you want to use it and play with it..
I have hated not having a video camera, not having a decent photo camera with flash and not being able to MMS.
i have loved my first week as an iPhone user.. i am once again sold.
C
I've owned an iPhone for grand total one day, and it's been glorious! Browsing, and Apps (Shazam is kickin' ass) and the vast usefulness of Maps and... Touch-ey things! Even just sliding it to unlock the phone is amusing. I had one crash, when I tried to go a little too fast in Safari on a page with a lot of image content, but no big deal as it was basically my fault.
Here's the one thing I'm mighty ticked about though: for some reason, despite my large library of iTunes purchased songs, whenever I try to convert to Ringtone iTunes gives me some kind of error whereby it thinks I have no internet. Furthermore none of my songs show the little bell icon. And damn it, I desire ringtones! Preferably *cough in Apple's direction* without paying for them, but hey...
"I had one crash, when I tried to go a little too fast in Safari on a page with a lot of image content, but no big deal as it was basically my fault".
No, it wasn't.
Well it's not totally free, but...
http://www.efksoft.com/products/iphoneringtonemaker/index.htm
$7.50 for all the ringtones you can make, from both protected and unprotected files. Worth it if you only make 4...
mine went back in less than 24 hrs. from a business users point of view its not even half baked. 5 gestures to switch inboxes? come on. search contacts only at the top (above the a's) puh lease. no ability to search mail? this thing is all hype, no action
Idk about u guys, but i just ordered a Dare this week. VZW FTW!
Verizon UI FTw...... who am I kidding.... that ish SUCKSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Just a couple minor restarts on both iPod Touch 2.0 and iPhone 3G, but nothing major. just annoying...
yup...i had keyboard problems...im referring to my ipod touch with the leaked 2.0 firmware...not sure if that has to do with anything but i checked and the build number matches the real version apple released...anyway...so yeah i type a word and sometimes it changes the word without displaying the word beneath the word while i was typing it...
In playing with the new firmware, I noticed something I haven't seen before. In Safari, while clicking and holding on an image on a website, an option appears to save the image. The images saved in safari (hence any website) are saved in the Photos app on the iPhone. Was this feature included previously than iPhone 2.0? Seems new to me.
The 2.0 works wonders for my iTouch
Thanks to Engadget I got my copy for free ;)
so far been awesome for me. I wish while in landscape mode in iPod use you could select shuffle somehow. Also wish the interface when switching to home screen and opening some apps as a bit snappier, but other than that VERY HAPPY over all. Wish there was A2DP SUPPORT AS WELL. Maybe a Bluetooth add on to support this soon like they already have for iPods except the touch.
Lane
Overall, I love my iPhone - far and above better than my Blackberry Pearl.
I have however experienced a crash about once every day always caused by one of the downloaded apps - particularly the Facebook app. The apps overall are very cool, but I'm a bit disappointed that Apple did vet them better. I thought that was at least part of the idea behind the App Store - a single source for iPhone apps that were verified and stable since Apple likes to control user experience unlike Microsoft who lets whatever fly. No? In fact, the apps from big companies seem to suck the most. Like the NYTimes app. It's a great news reader...until it force quits after a few minutes. EVERY TIME I'VE USED IT. What's the deal? Meanwhile, Weatherbug's awesome.
Simply put, and i've seldom said about my crack fix of Apple, simply disapointing.
I bought a 16G Black and it had a dead pixel so I returned it and they said they could swap it out after an hour of waiting at the G-Bar. I asked why he was crediting my credit card and he said because ur returning it... I said but I'm getting a new one... he says no ur not we are now out of stock- 2 hrs after purchasing!!!!
Now my original doesn't work and I don't have a new!!!!
Apple's standards have been going down hill!!!!
I don't think you not getting a replacement phone on the same day can constitute the statement 'Apple's standards are going down hill' - perhaps when tens of thousands report the same thing can we consider it a statistic!
I expected to never miss my WM treo, but a week later i wish i had it back. terrible cell and 3G signals VS VZ, have to put it on the charger 2x a day,, apples implementation Activesync is far too basic, it cant even check subfolders automatically.
At least its much nicer to look at.
When I first fired up my iPhone, I was in bliss. I immediately fell in love with the design and feel as I held it in my hand.
Setting it up was really easy. All I did was connect it to my computer to activate it. Then I loaded my favorite tunes and some videos.
After that, I realized what 3G *really* meant. Blazing fast speeds over the air without the need for Wifi. When I had to look something up online while at work where there was no Wifi, I was humbled. It was what I always wanted to do.
After three or four days of fun use, I realized the UI was getting slower as I loaded some of the new App store applications and also experienced many system crashes. Just a few days ago did I notice that the screen wasn't aligned properly and to the left of the device, backlight leakage can be seen peaking through the seams of the case where aluminum meets the plastic.
In the midst of all this, I still experience moments of awe at such a powerful, but simple device. It's become hard to put it down. It's almost like a childhood dream of imagining the perfect all-in-one device that put together everything that is cool into one simple package.. calling it the "future" one day.
The screen might be a big problem, you might want to take it to the apple store and see if they'll replace it.
My "slide to answer" freezes when a certain one of my friends calls and I keep sliding it and it unlocks and by then I've somehow already ended the call and he thinks I hung up on him. But other than that everything else is working (mostly) great.
sloooooooooooowwww. it's the feeling i get when i'm on a pc and i wish i could open the task manager and quit that damn process thats eating all the cpu.
My iphone 3g is worthless... I have no 3g coverage.. It crashes and lags more than grandma..... Pretty pisst off i-sheep here.
iPhone: 199(Plus 360 because the plan went up)
Calling yourself an iSheep: Priceless
here to.
have to disable 3g to get a location typically. had to disable wifi too. keeps using skyhook's db or something and pointing me miles away from where i'm at. ugh
i do assume they're working overtime on fixing most of these issues though. but quite sad that iphone 3g was mainly a couple hardware tweaks, the 2.0 software is unstable and the app store is having its own backlog/issues/buggy apps...
when the kinks get worked out and if it works as it has been presented to us in the past - it will be awesome.
Since I've updated my 1st gen iphone to the new 2.0 software people have been telling me they are hearing feedback on the phone when they try to talk. Just wondering anyone was having the same problem or maybe it could be an app I have installed.
Contacts problem, Every time i go to contacts it freezes for a few seconds, or when an app requests something from the contacts it freezes, anyone else?
yeah, everytime i go to contacts i get a 2-3 second delay before the phone will respond to anything...
Same.
I'll be completely honest here. The less 3rd party apps I have installed, the better my phone performs. I'm down to apple remote and boxoffice. Another thing that bothers me about the new iPhone when I checked it out at the apple store is the left and right black border on the screen. its way bigger on the new iphone. I prefer how small they are on my edge iPhone.
Upgraded my firmware to 2.0 last Thursday.
UI is definitely slower. Nowhere near as bad as WM, but still less responsive than it should be.
Battery life has been massacred from 3 days to about 14 hours. Turning off my auto-fetch... trying to figure out if push is actually working properly. Maybe that's what's killing the battery.
I don't need it to last 3 days. But I damn well need it to last thru my day.
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I've definitely had some problems with 2.0. Updated my 1st gen phone and had numerous lag issues. Just recently purchased the 3G and it has the same problems. 2.0 definitely isn't as buttery smooth. My apps are working fine, reception on the 3G phone is much better, just a few lag issues with the 2.0.
I don't own the iPhone, but I do use an ATT TILT, and I have one thing to complain about that is related to the iPhone.... All of you kool-aid drinking wackjobs are sucking up all of my 3G bandwidth my download speeds have halved since the launch of the iPhone 3G. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to be happy with the fact that I can Cut and Paste. I'm not against Apple or the iPhone by the way. Apple makes great systems, and devices, but I still think the iPhone is a super advanced feature phone, and not a true smartphone.
Nothing I can't live without. Apple will fix. They always do.
My biggest issue has been the clunkiness with the contacts list - it takes (relatively) ages before you can actually interact with it, and even then it's still slow for a bit.
Meanwhile a Nokia will flat-out refuse you access to the contact list until it's completely loaded, which I think is a better solution from a usability perspective.
Otherwise, MobileMe and everything else have been running fine since purchase. It's still a great phone.
3G iPhone? Oh shit, I forgot that was this week, I was focusing on a little known gaming event known as E3. Oh well, maybe next year I'll pay attention when they release the 4G version.
My biggest issues so far:
- I just can't get used to the yellowish tint on the screen. I'm used to the whiter screen on my original iPhone.
- Really bad reception. Never had a problem with my original. With this 3G unit, my reception is consistently low where my original had strong reception. I turned 3G off yesterday and for a little while I was getting great reception (as good as the original), but today the reception has started to go down again. I've had a number of dropped calls already with this phone. Never had any with the original.
Contacts is really really buggy! Once I start it up it takes a couple seconds for it to respond to any of my touches. Other than that haven't noticed to much else except that the OS overall can be slow at times.
My only real issue has been phone based updates to the apps. I updated Evernote yesterday, and the update process crashed my iPhone...I then had a 6 time back and forth process between my phone and iMac until I finally go the corrupt software removed from my phone and added from my iMac...
Other than that...just a smidgen of lag here and there...
Shazam OWNS!!!
Funny the term, never buy the first version... hmmmm. I did, hacked it, returned to wait for 2.0 only to be very disappointed in the response from friends and media.
I won't be getting one any time soon. Atleast til I get a stronger sense of confidence.
All this hype might be the bane of Apple. I have never seen the botching of stuff since the Classic OS days. Maybe Apple is getting to big for its own britches...
You forgot to mention the fact that v.2.0 cripples bluetooth in that it won't allow the vast majority of Hands-free accessories to play visual voice mail messages.
Has everyone tried the screenshot feature yet? :)
It's awesome. Hold the home button while you press your sleep button, then go look in your photo roll. It's really useful :)
it was implemented in the 2.0 beta... i used it for months getting screenshots of bugs to send to them lol
all that said... anytime i submitted a bug it was resolved before the next build release... (about every two weeks)
they really were pros about it
Well.... i stood in line for 14 hours for this thing and you should have seen me Babling like a sheep. "Bahahahaaaaaaaaaa". Then once I got my paws on this phone I was happy. Until they told me I did not qualify for the 200 dollar deal. And that I could not put it under my family plan, and then realized I had absolutely no 3g coverage in my neck of the woods. And to top it off...... Blutooth is crippled. I am telling you.. if I see Steve jobs I will make sure I bite him in the ass.The more I think about this the more i get more pisst off i-sheep.
I love the third party apps but it seems as I install more and more of them (about 20 total now) the overall system seems to be getting buggier. I haven't had any issues with laggy typing, but apps seem to be crashing quite a bit recently, and the last few times I've plugged into iTunes it's been unable to sync my purchased apps back to the computer. Yeah, this one ain't quite ready for prime time yet. I love it yet hate it, and desperately await for 2.0.1 to fix some bugs :)
Had my iPhone for almost exactly 1 week. In that week, so far:
1) Reception in my office was 2-3 bars with my 1G iPhone. Now it's 1-2, and I can't keep a phone conversation in the office without it dropping out.
2) Pressing the home button sometimes takes 4 or 5 pressed before it actually returns
3) The phone is laggy as compared to the non-3G version. The aforementioned typing problem is one I've seen.
4) I have had the phone reset on me a few times when I was trying to bring up MyWeather Mobile. Blame the app all you want, but no application should be able to bring the phone down.
5) Had to buy a different cradle for it. The old iPhone/iPod one wouldn't work at all - kept popping out.
I very much like the better sounding speakers and the GPS. Really wish they'd tell you long/lat and altitude as well, though. ;-(
No longer a fan boy.
Apple's quality control department needs to be smacked, a lot.
I've had some issues, but I'm really happy i waited for the app store and rev2/3g. still the best phone I've ever owned.
I don't understand why people complain about engadget making articles about the iPhone frequently. I enjoy the articles. and people should take a little intrest. Most phones that are out now a days are based off of the iPhone. You should all be grateful and if a TECHNOLOGY blogging site wants to write about a TECHNOLOGY device. let it be.