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Wow... This sums up my experience too. Everyone is touting the iPhone as the next app device, and that might be true, but it's got a ways to go. The UI is so slow and unstable that it's breaking my "I can tolerate a computer crashing, but never a phone" personal rule.



Agreed. It's nothing a solid 2.0.1 release can't fix, but they need to push it out ASAP.

Between the buggy 2.0 software and the nightmare that was the signup process, Apple wasn't totally on its game this time around.


Using apps or normal function?

If I don't (ever) use any 3rd party apps, the phone seems about the same as before. After I play some games, I tend to power off and power back on to get it back into good shape.

Hopefully they'll get this sorted soon.


For me, it's just normal use... I had the last.fm app for a few days but removed it after I realized it was making iTunes freeze.

I agree with 37signals that it is the best phone I've had. It used to be better.


iPhone OS 1.x wasn't anything like this - even with me jailbreaking it and throwing all kinds of bizarre apps onto it.

I played with it enough that I did get the occasional reboot, but maybe once a week. In the 10 days I've had the iPhone 3G it's rebooted on me at least three times, I've had app store apps crash at least a dozen times, and had countless weird 5-10sec freezes.

Really hoping 2.0.1 fixes a bunch of these problems...


Interesting. My original iPhone became very unstable after being jailbroken. So far I haven't had any problems with the iPhone 3G.


I'm betting it's all the application DRM & restriction enforcement that is causing the majority of these bugs.


I'm sure it has nothing to do with all the other features like GPS, a brand new contacts app, a better calendar app, push support, etc. Yes, it must be the DRM.




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