I've been using an IPhone 4 since it first came out. Its been a pleasurable experience, in all respects, with a few hickups along the way with rogue apps forcing me to learn how to reset the unit (hold the power and home buttons down simultaneously for a few seconds).
I just upgraded to iOS 5. The good, bad and the ugly:
The Good: iCloud: So obvious, yet, done in the Apple way. If you buy a song on, it shows up everywhere, pretty much at the same time. Downside- if there are multiple devices at home, your internet connection slows down considerably. In our case, after I purchased a song, the downloads started for the iTouch and the home PC, particularly slowing down our 801.11b/g wireless connection around the house.
The bad: The iPhone 4 slowed down noticably. I am guessing that this is a way to move folks to the IPhone 4s. I cannot imagine how sluggish a 3GS would be with iOS 5.
The ugly: In the hope of making the e-mail client more "corporate" Apple added a few features to mark multiple e-mails to be read or deleted. This is certainly helpful for those of us who receive 100's of e-mails a day. While doing so, the understated elegance of the user interface seems more cluttered. The buttons have three words on them. For example "Delete Selected Messages".. Factually correct and probably more idiot proof, but visually cluttered.
More on iOS 5 after a few weeks.
Happy Weekends!
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