Bugs in the iPhone Firmware v1.1.1 that have been annoying me
12 October 2007For the most part, I couldn’t be happier with my iPhone. After using several phones over the past two years from Nokia and RIM, the iPhone is hands down the best phone I’ve ever used. BUT, there are several defects in the latest version of the iPhone Firmware (v1.1.1) that are starting to annoy me:
- According to my iPhone, it’s constantly playing music.
- The playing icon in the upper right stays on CONSTANTLY. If I go into the iPod and begin playing a song, and then pause that song and return to the main menu and continue my phone use, after a random amount of time, the playing icon will just pop up indicating that it’s resumed playing. I’ve checked in the iPod screen and it’s still paused and nothing is coming out of the speakers. The icon is now a permanent fixture on my iPhone screen now.
- When my phone is locked, it doesn’t like to turn the screen on right away when I hit the home button.
- I’ve had this issue since v1.0.2 actually. Occasionally if my phone is locked and the screen is off, I’ll hit the home button to be able to unlock my phone and nothing will happen. I’ll have to push the home button two to three more times before the screen actually turns on allowing me to unlock my phone. A minor annoyance, but still worrisome.
- Check my e-Mail every 15 minutes? How about whenever it feels like it.
- I can’t count how many times during the day that my iPhone will say I have no e-Mail, then when I tap the mail icon and actually load my mailbox, it’ll download ten new messages that are several hours old. Why is the iPhone so inconsistent in checking your e-Mail even though you can set it to check every 15 minutes?
- “End Call” button went on vacation
- This only happened to me once earlier this week, but it made me chuckle. After finishing a phone call I went to tap ‘End Call’ and discovered an empty hole on the screen where this button should be. It was literally just gone as if it had up and walked away.
Other then these small personality issues, I have to say again that my wife and I absolutely love our iPhones.
I have to admit that third party application support would be nice. Rumor has it that an SDK is in the works for people to develop native applications for the iPhone. If they do, I suspect they’ll be somewhere along the lines of BlackBerry applications where you need to have your installer blessed by the hardware vendor to have the software actually run on the platform.
I really like what I’ve seen so far from Apple’s WebKit SDK and what has come out of it. Apple even opened it’s own site listing Web Apps and allowing authors to submit their own. These little applications range from Fandango Online Movie Ticket Purchasing to a Resistor Value Calculator!
Pretty cool stuff 
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