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Posted in Misc | Posted on 06-17-2009 | 1,894 views

Last year I blogged about my experience upgrading my iPhone to 2.0. Little did I know that within a few hours I'd have a few hundred comments. It ended up being the most commented blog entry on my blog (972, almost 1k!) and my 6th most visited entry over all.

So given that the upgrade was a bit... rough last time - who is going to hold off doing the upgrade this time? I know I'm not going to wait. Working at home, even if my phone bricks, it isn't the end of the world.

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Ken Wilson said on 06-17-2009 at 12:05 PM #
I'll upgrade instantly...if they ever make it available.

And if my phone dies, well, a little peace and quiet is good for the productivity I guess. :)

Ken
Shaun W. said on 06-17-2009 at 12:05 PM #
I am! I cant wait to try out thie Copy and Paste thing they are hyping.
Ant Cooper said on 06-17-2009 at 12:08 PM #
I'll be updating straight away - can't even remember what the full feature list of 3.0 is, but it's fun to be on the bleeding edge
Charlie Griefer said on 06-17-2009 at 12:10 PM #
Holy crap I forgot about last year's "fun" (I wasn't an iphone owner at the time).

Still, I'm sitting here clicking "check for upgrade" every few seconds. Don't think I have it in me to wait.
Scott Stroz said on 06-17-2009 at 12:14 PM #
I am downloading right now.
Jeff Self said on 06-17-2009 at 12:28 PM #
I'm excited about it and I don't even have an iPhone. Hopefully, they'll announce new iPod Touches in the next couple of weeks. I really want a 64GB Touch.
Raymond Camden said on 06-17-2009 at 12:40 PM #
Done. That was surprisingly uneventful.
Brian Swartzfager said on 06-17-2009 at 1:35 PM #
I'll play the role of Luddite today and say no.

(Yawn) Maybe I'd feel a little differently if I had an iPhone rather than an iPod Touch, but I doubt it. While the new features are cool, I don't feel deprived by not having them right away. I'll get the update eventually.
Bill Downs said on 06-17-2009 at 2:02 PM #
Mine is going in now. CEO's phone won't authorize after the update. He's getting a iTunes store transaction error.
Max Hamby said on 06-17-2009 at 2:06 PM #
Already updated and it was very uneventful. Of course, considering I just bought my iPhone 3G exactly 1 month ago and feel like I got screwed, I'd have gone ballistic if update had caused any problems.

To be honest though, there was a little part of me that hoped the update would brickj the phone so that I could call Apple up and give them hell.
DanaK said on 06-17-2009 at 2:15 PM #
I'll be doing it after work today straight away. The beta has been around the block and I haven't heard anything too tragic so far from this afternoon.
Rob said on 06-17-2009 at 9:49 PM #
I use my 2G Touch as a PDA, so the copy/paste was worth the $10 upgrade itself. So far so good.
Raymond Camden said on 06-18-2009 at 6:40 AM #
So far:

I lost my contacts. That was my fault though, not 3.0. I removed a calendar, and somehow that nuked my contacts too. Mainly I clicked a bit too quick, but part of me still feels like the calendar/contact area of the OS is a bit odd.

I had 5 apps marked as updated. I clicked Update All. I then got 5 'You must agree to new terms' warnings. I went through this 3-4 times, repeating the same TOC page and agreeing to terms. Finally 4 of my apps got updated. One app simply wouldn't update. It kept asking me to agree to the new terms.

Oh, and my new 3Gs? Marked 'prepared for shipment' and apparently it arrives tomorrow still. I assume this means overnight delivery.
Raymond Camden said on 06-18-2009 at 6:42 AM #
Oh, I wanted to add. (I twitted this last night.) By default, auto fill in for Safari is turned off. Be sure to turn it on in settings. If you want to I mean.
DanaK said on 06-18-2009 at 2:11 PM #
I'll say my only annoyance so far is all the shaking functionality. I'm constantly changing songs or undoing text if I put my hand down haha.
Chris said on 06-19-2009 at 11:48 PM #
iPhone 3.Oh what a joke. seriously? 3 generations and NOW apple puts in voice control and video? Some of the cheapest dumb phones have that capability.

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