iPhone OS 3.1 "Coma Mode"

Seems there's something not so tasty in this bite of the Apple:

Complaints about Apple's new iPhone OS 3.1 are flooding the web, with one poster calling it "the buggiest update that Apple has yet released for the iPhone."

The problems being reported are legion. They include iPhones becoming totally unresponsive, dropped calls, poor battery life, difficulties with Wi-Fi connections, failed Microsoft Exchange syncing, dead GPS service, loss of signal after syncing, tethering no longer working in "legally" unlocked phones outside the US, and more.

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?

Take the unresponsive-iPhone reports, for example. Tartly dubbed "Coma Mode," it's a hot topic on Apple's own Apple's "Using iPhone" user forum.

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A blogger at the Detroit News provided a detailed description of his attempted - and unsuccessful - workarounds, and a poster in an Apple thread entitled "Mysterious random total shut downs following 3.1 update" described how he reset his iPhone to factory settings, restored it, set Autolock to Off, deleted his email account, and removed all third party apps - all to no avail.

Since there weren't any security patches of note, and mostly becausae I'm lazy, I'm still on iPhone 3.0. All y'all who are thinking of upgrading are forewarned.

Me, I think I'll wait until the dust settles. "Cancel" is your friend. Well, mine, anyway.