I’ve been using the 2.0 firmware for a few weeks now and I can fully agree with others when they say that the 2.0 firmware is really buggy, can I just say that as I type this I turned my iPhone off and it’s actually froze in the process, all I have if that loading spinning circle thing and it’s not even moving but thankfully I have just got rid of it by holding both the home and power button for a short time.

Anyway back to the topic, every time I go to look at my contacts list which isn’t a huge list but it does have quite a few, it takes so long for me to see them and be able to scroll down to the person I want to get to. The phone takes a very long time to actually turn on and off and then there is the app store which when using it on the iPhone well it’s really horrible to use. If you’re going to install an app on the iPhone then I suggest you do it through the app store in iTunes on your pc or Mac as doing it on the iPhone is so unreliable, 75% of the apps I’ve downloaded have failed to install and that’s not something I want to happen especially if it’s an app I paid for.

When I click on an app to open well my iPhone just decides to restart itself for no reason, it’s happened on a various amount of apps but mainly does it with twitterrific but I know there is nothing wrong with that app so don’t let that put you off getting twitterrific as its great. Recently iTunes doesn’t even want to detect my iPhone as when I connect it I hear the sound that vista has found it but iTunes just decides to freeze and do nothing until I disconnect the phone so even iTunes itself doesn’t like the 2.0 firmware. I remember using the 1.1.3 firmware which was a buggy update as well but nothing can compare to this firmware as it’s just so disappointing, I know some people have downgraded back to 1.1.4 which I might do but to be honest I don’t like the idea of not being able to use my apps until 2.1 comes out which will hopefully be a lot easier to use.

Well I hope you guys are having fun with it all as I’m not and I am in some ways considering going back to 1.1.4 just so I have a working phone and not one that looks like it wants to die.

E-mail:  ss3luke at googlemail.com