Houston Chronicle Computing Column: Latest iPhone Needs First Aid

Posted on: Friday, 25 July 2008, 12:00 CDT By Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle Jul. 25--Even though the iPhone 3G is a second version, there are times when it feels very 1.0. After using it for almost two weeks, I've found some major glitches. Fortunately, Apple frequently updates the firmware for the iPhone, and I suspect many of these issues are fixable. Here's my list of most irritating iPhone problems: Bad battery life So long as you don't actually, you know, use the iPhone, its standby time seems to be similar to other smart phones I've tried. But once you actually start using the Web, reading e-mail or playing with applications, battery life drops dramatically. And God forbid you should connect to Wi-Fi. Crashing apps I've already written that too many of the iPhone's third-party applications are buggy, which can be... [read full story]