iphone upgrade

iphone troubles
Originally uploaded by bluepupae.

my little upgrade did not start well. neither i nor apple (or did they?) consider that there would be millions of iphone users old and new simultaneously trying to upgrade/set up their iphones. i love apple, but i was pissed that they seemed to lack the foresight or consideration to their users to prepare for the onslaught. after backing up my iphone and installing the update, i continued to get an error message indicating it wasn't able to connect to the itunes store to complete the set up. my iphone displayed the new out of box screen above.

of course i decided to do this 15 min before i had to leave for a dental appt. except for the ability to make an emergency call, all functionality had been removed from my poor little iphone. i thought being without internet was bad. this was up there. i was late to my appt with a dead iphone. when i finally made it home, it was an hour of continually trying to connect before having success.

until then, i was seriously in a panic as i was reading all manner of posts from people in the same boat, some of whom had been trying to finish the upgrade of their iphones for the past 5 hrs. here i was only on hour one.

almost everything made it back from the backup except for the music. i had to recopy that over from itunes. though some of the excitement from earlier had largely dissipated, i installed a few apps, including twitterific, facebook & yelp, and have been checking them out. the only thing i was disappointed in was that the yelp app doesn't allow you to sign into your account. it is more of a gps based search. that's nice, but i'd like to be able to access my bookmarks.

all in all, i am still in love with my iphone and am considering the possibilities now that people are making cool apps for it. i haven't added any games yet, but i'm very tempted to. perhaps 8 GB is not enough....