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A key point for me is whether this will be yet another device that needs to sync with iTunes. If I have to sit around interminably updating firmware, transferring huge applications back and forth...a process that already annoys the hell out of me on my iPhone - then no sale, brother. No sale.

Kernel change, shmernel change. For a web browser point release to require a complete system restart is absurd and Microsoftian.

Filtering the signal through Barbara Mandrell makes all the difference.

Last try. By charging this much to upgrade, and requiring a new commitment on top of that, AT&T is scoring *subsidy-free* 2 year contracts off of any existing customer who has the chutzpah to want to upgrade their hardware mid-contract. Put another way: a contract renewal *comes with a subsidy*. But if you commit to a new contract early, they leave out the subsidy and charge you extra for the privilege, hoping you will be too blinded by the pretty sparklies and fingertip video editing to notice the scam. I'm sorry but this seems shifty and underhanded to me. Charging a penalty or fee is one thing - but this is over the top and if you consider it good customer service or value for money then you have my sympathies.

Since AT&T is not just charging users $200 for a mid-contract upgrade, but also requiring us to sign an additional 2-year commitment at the same time, I stand by my initial statement: this surcharge is shit for the birds.

$200 surcharge for upgrading is radioactive bullshit of the highest order.

Search the app store for "NoiseBlaster." It may be what you're looking for.

App syncing is a nightmare because you can install and delete apps right on your phone, slipping out of sync with iTunes. When you do finally reconnect the device, it becomes an infuriating waste of time to try to figure out what you don't want iTunes to helpfully delete or install - because iTunes wants to always sync all apps based on its own checked or unchecked list. (Plus, app syncing takes forever if you have a lot of large apps and don't sync that often.)

If Apple doesn't want us to have the same app on multiple devices on the same account, then iTunes shouldn't allow it either. But it does - therefore, I must assume it's valid to have an app on multiple devices, and preventing redownloads on the phone is simply an inconvenience imposed by the geniuses at Cupertino.

Apple could handle the problem by tagging downloads to authorized devices in addition to the app store login - rather than forcing me or my wife back to iTunes to redownload something.

That, or at the very least allow manual app syncing with iTunes the same way you can manually manage music. That wouldn't fix this annoyance but it would decrease the pain of app syncing immensely.

Why is everyone glossing over the fact that the phone is so unstable it has to be rebooted on a regular basis just to function properly? This is the kind of thing we've mocked Windows for for 20 years.

Don't get me wrong I love my iPhone like no other nifty electronic gizmo I've ever possessed - but this rebooting is bullshit, and it shouldn't be reported as "iPhone 101" - rather it should be treated as a serious issue with iPhone OS that must be corrected.