Keeping the iPhone Stable…

Unfortunately, the only way I can keep my iPhone stable and crash-free is by leaving it on its cradle, docked to my computer. It’s as if a crash-countdown clock initiates whenever I decide to pick it up and make a call or run an application.

The phone was great before multiple home screens and web app icons… the phone was good before 2.0—and the phone seems to work just fine without extraneous applications installed… but now that they’re here (and money has been spent), going back just doesn’t seem reasonable.

If Apple doesn’t figure this out and stabilize the iPhone, manufacturers like Nokia might steal market shares, especially with ANDROID around the corner. The promise of a device with the iPhone’s power and usability with far-fewer restrictions could convince me…

As things are right now, I’m not signing another two-year contract to buy a GPS-and-3G version of the same crap-pile of aluminum and glass. It doesn’t feel good knowing that I trust my (free) Sanyo RL-4920 more than a once-$600 phone.