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At last! I’m crossing my fingers this will end the Great App Crash of ’08 once and for all.

Apple’s list of fixes and enhancements:

• decrease in call set-up failures and call drops
• significantly improved battery life for most users
• dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
• improved email reliability, notably fetching mail from Pop and Exchange accounts
  faster installation of 3rd party applications
• fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes if you have lots of third party applications
• improved performance in text messaging
• faster loading and searching of contacts
• improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
• repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
• option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
• Genius playlist creation

Of course iPod touch owners are experiencing many of these enhancements already.

Be sure to back up your current phone setup before updating!! EDIT: I guess an automatic backup happens as part of the update process. But I still recommend a backup before ding anything.

Share your experiences with this update in the comments, please!

Safari sporadically crashing and burning on you? Can’t figure out why or when it will happen next? I can’t, either. But I have a theory…

I’m going to hypothesize that there’s no rhyme or reason for Safari crashes because it’s not really Safari’s fault: It’s falling victim to poor memory management from the application you used just prior. If you use an app that is memory intensive and that doesn’t free all the memory back up when you quit from it, you’re starting Safari at a disadvantage. Safari will motor along for as long as it can, but when it runs out of memory it seizes up and/or boots you out.

I’d suggest trying the following:

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Beginning September 7, Best Buy will be selling the iPhone, the first retailer beyond Apple and AT&T in the United States. Can 7-11 be far behind?? Rejoice!

It should help boost sales considerably.

Here’s the Yahoo story about it

Last night every non-apple app on my iPhone was crashing on launch. I tried rebooting the phone and it didn’t help. Very irritating. I don’t see why everything would stop working except for the pre-installed apps!

So, I’m trying a restore from a pre-crashy backup of my iPhone. It’s almost done… I hope it works, becaus I don’t want to have to set up every setting on my phone again from a fresh restore.

Anyone else had this problem recently? Let me know what you did to fix it.

EDIT: A restore from a previous back-up seemed to do the trick.

ANOTHER EDIT (3 hours later): I just downloaded some apps, and docked my iPhone to load ‘em. It’s making me do another restore. WTH?

ANOTHER NOTHER EDIT: So just for closure, the second restore failed halfway through, and froze up iTunes and my iPhone. Or appeared to anyway. I pulled my iPhone and got it to reboot, and everything seemed fine. I did have to set up my email accounts though, which was a bit of a pain. But now everything is working smoothly. No crashes so far. I haven’t used it a lot though.