Comments on: iPhone 2.0 Software - What’s The Opposite of Rock Solid?

By: Ragart

Ragart — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:18:01 +0000

sad thing is that updates will be so slow to get here via 3rd party devs b/c of the hand-picked update system Apple has in place.

“Ok, App No. 3542 step up to the yellow line…”

By: Reference: iPhone OS 2.0 pWnage « Mike Cane 2008

Reference: iPhone OS 2.0 pWnage « Mike Cane 2008 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:21:44 +0000

[...] it’ll all be (temporarily) obsolete once Apple pushes out a(n apparently much-needed!) 2.0 OS update. But then the haXXorz will get back to it and make it possible [...]

By: macgirl

macgirl — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:13:19 +0000

I am having the same experience. I’m quite disappointed since instability is what drove me nuts with the Treo 680 I had before I got my first iPhone. I haven’t tried the 357 firmware yet, but will do so this weekend. I hope Apple fixes this soon, either via a firmware update or fixing issues in the 3rd party apps that may be causing these problems.

By: PatrickJ

PatrickJ — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:35:18 +0000

Just testing a new comment …

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:18:13 +0000

Thankfully I’m not experiencing very many crashes. I’ve been careful about what I’ve installed and right now I’m still only running a handful of applications that I read multiple reviews on, but I have to agree - not stable - is a good summary of the current firmware. Its definitely not Windows Mobile 6 unstable, but its still not great.

I think my biggest issue is the general slowness of the OS itself. And I don’t know for sure if its the iPhone or the OS … but I do know that my iPod Touch isn’t troubled nearly as much by the slowness.

By: TimmyGUNZ

TimmyGUNZ — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:26:43 +0000

Awfully buggy. I’m amazed that this software was released with this many problems. I have had all of the issues you have had as well as others. (Sometimes the iPod software doesn’t like to come back out of cover flow when turning the iPhone back to it’s upright position and I need to reboot it in order to get that back.)

I am hoping every minute that 2.0.1 come out and patches up a lot of this stuff. My brother, who is not as tech savvy as I am, was on his way back to the Apple store because he was convinced he had a busted iPhone. Turns out his symptoms are just like ours (and the million other people who bought this last week.)

By: jj

jj — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:41:39 +0000

I totally agree. It gets slow and can’t keep up with my finger. When I click a link in the mail app, it will open the website then freeze the screen.

Apps will randomly crash.

In general the operating speed and responsiveness sucks.

By: 9600baud

9600baud — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:33:28 +0000

I agree the OS is garbage. You’d think they been working on this for a while but the apps just dont play nice with this new firmware.

Today I synced my phone for the first time since I bought it and all my apps stopped working… but thats a story for another day…