Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Sunday, 17 August 2008 20:33
Your IT -
Mobility
Page 2 of 3
What’s clear is that Apple has a lot of work to do to make OS 2.1 and beyond a stable and reliable mobile operating system.
The glitches all iPhone users (iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G) have been suffering with the latest 2.x OS, which have also plagued iPod Touch 2.x users, are all incredibly un-Apple like and have been annoying people immensely.
No doubt Apple’s programmers are working as hard as they can to deliver on Steve Jobs’ promises. The iPhone, after all, is otherwise still an amazing and revolutionary handheld computer and mobile phone in one.
Despite the “Apple Logo Screen of Death”, I’ve managed to restore my own iPhone 2G, make sure I have less than 8 pages worth of apps being installed, install programs individually if done from the iPhone’s App Store, and treated the thing with kid gloves in the hope it stays stable, which for now, it is.
One other thing I’ve discovered: when typing SMS messages, the dreaded “slow” keyboard reaction time was not fixed in OS 2.0.1.
It seems to be fixed at first, and then it comes back, although since I’ve restored my iPhone over the weekend, the bug has yet to resurface.
Still, pre the update, I discovered that if I put a letter or any character in front of the cursor, typing speed and the on-screen reaction goes back to normal – but you lose the autocorrection capability, which is annoying.
All in all, Apple’s iPhone 2.0 and 2.0.1 issues have been painful and time consuming to deal with. iPhone OS 2.1 simply can’t come soon enough, and then whatever updates Apple has planned after that, to mature the OS even further.
But despite all of that, I still love the iPhone dearly, and use it every day, to surf the web, do email, play with the apps, listen to Internet radio through the paid “Tuner” app, play some of the games, take photos, make calls and generally have fun with the device.
It’s still the coolest digital toy of the 21st century thus far, but its growing pains have been frustrating and felt by many, many users.
So, what’s something cool and new available for either iPhone – and the iPod Touch? Please read on to page 3.
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