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To say the upgrade to iPhone 2.0 has been rocky is putting it mildly. First of All there was the whole “grab the pre-release” software fiasco which I stupidly went and did (entirely my own fault) Then we were told (by more faceless internet nerds) that this was the wrong one and had to do it again. So now I don’t know whether I’m running the correct version or not. Internet says I am. On top of that, and you’ll love this, when I restored my iPhone the second time it did a back up of everything first and then restored it all correctly. However, when I then synched for the first time, any Application I had purchased on the iPhone got wiped, leaving only those I had bought on iTunes.

Also, when upgrading the phone in the first place it wiped all my music. I had been manually managing music so this was a bit of a pain, but I put it down to the upgrade process. However, when I upgraded my iPod touch it put all the music back. Go figure? I suppose it could be due to getting the firmware direct from Apple’s servers but I don’t think so.

And then there’s the applications. Apart form games being MIA on the Irish App store (and several other countries, apparently) the stability of the phone when running Apps has been less than stellar. Both Apple’s own remote app and net news wire mobile have both caused my iPhone to unceremoniously reboot itself. I guess it’s a real smart phone now. Also, battery life has plummeted, which I suspect might have something to do with mobileme. I have push turned off to see if it makes a difference. It has also been using a tremendous amount of data over edge since upgrading. Normally I use less than a 100mb a month but I’ve downloaded over 80 since friday. This wouldn’t be an issue if I was in the US or UK, but thanks to O2 Ireland’s wonderful 1gig data limit I’d shoot through that in about 10 days. So for now Push is off.

If all that wasn’t enough, today O2’s edge network disappeared off the face of the earth. And just when I was out and needed to look something up too. At first I thought it was another 2.0 related bug, but it seems as though they are having network problems. Their website disappeared for several hours today too. Since upgrading my AppleTV to 2.1 it’s been crash happy too and they still haven’t resolved that wonderful apple logo of death when connected to a hdmi switcher (except now instead of an Apple logo you get a black screen) Combined with the 3g launch and the mobileme rollout, not a good weekend to be an Apple customer.

[UPDATE] I did a complete charge/discharge cycle and the battery life seems to be ok now. Also, I think I was wrong about the amount of data usage. I may not have reset the stats when I upgraded so that could have been for the whole life of my phone. Ooops, sorry about that. I have push back on since yesterday and it’s reported 1.2mb which is a bit more reasonable.