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The iPhone 3G is my first iPhone. Since day 1 it has been very unstable. Recently I even did a full restore and only installed a few apps. The instability I experience appears to have nothing to do with the 3rd party apps.
I can reset the device, use it, never once launch a 3rd party app, and still have instability.
Only once every few days does the iPhone spontaneously reset. Most of the time it's just the web browser crashing on me, and it crashes very frequently (at least once every 5 minutes of use.) I almost threw it against the wall the other day when I was posting to a forum and the browser just closed (crashed) and lost all of my text entry. It did that 4 times that evening. I swear I give up trying to do forum posts from it, I'm always afraid it's going to crash on me at the wrong time.
So I've taken to forcing a reset every morning when I pull it off the charger. Usually at once sometime through the day. Any time I expect to use it for more than 5 minutes at a time, I'll reset it. Resetting it seems to make it more stable for the subsequent session.
I haven't had to do this kind of reset management since the Treo 600!
I have never experienced this kind of instability with WM (3 devices over 3 years of WM5/6.) In fact the Treo 750 could go for weeks without a reset.
I never understood what people talked about when they said that WM is buggy and/or unstable. Maybe coming from the rather unstable PalmOS, WM felt extremely stable.
Heck, even the blackberry crashed and rebooted (as rarely) as it ever happened to me on WM. (I had a BB for work for a year in a half in addition to my personal WM devices.)
I really HOPE Apple gets a handle on these stability problems. Now that WebKit seems to be coming to WM pretty soon, I'll have a hard time justifying any reason to stick with PalmOS.
I still have my Tilt and Treo 750, so it's no big deal to just put away the iPhone and go back.
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