Hopefully not often :-/ I'm looking at getting an iphone this sunday for the first time, but with stories like this i'm mildly reluctant. - Shaun Bevill

reminds me of my days with my pocket pc. the pretty to look at ipaq 4350. the problem was it'd dump all my data when it crashed and the only way back was a hard restore. - sean808080

It seems with these smart phones the more apps you install the more unstable they get. - Steve Helder via twhirl

more you install the more unstable they get? Sounds like the average Windows PC! - Ian May via twhirl

A lot of iPhone apps guys are saying v. 2.0 of the software was rushed and that v 2.1 (due very shortly) should be much more stable. - Andrew Leyden

Never had such problem before 2.0 on my 2G iphone. The thing is jailbroken 1.4 iphone was a lot more stable than current 2.0 one. It rarely crashed and had very little lags. Apple needs to learn from hacking community I guess. - Inksim

Mine is throwing "No SIM card installed" errors. Going to try a restore but I'm betting I need a replacement... - Lisa McMillan

before I bought my first Nokia's top-of-th-line smartphone back in 1995 I had thought that Symbian rocks, but it failed me many times including crashing while having phone conversation! - Pajama Domain via twhirl

opps I meant 2005 :) - Pajama Domain via twhirl

Many people are reporting that a hard restore and starting from scratch fixes the problems. So far so good on my phone. - Leo Laporte

What did you do to cause it to crash that much? - Barty Lambert

Karma got you Leo. You told Belmont that your phone was fine when she was bemoaning her iPhone woes. - Jeff Jones

Too many apps? Also I only had a few hundred MB free. We'll see! - Leo Laporte

I tweeted back, it sounds like a software refresh coming for the early adopters. Apple shipped too quick without giving them a beating like we would.. hmm blog posting coming - Chris Miller

I had to do it a couple times with my iPhone 2G. I also had it get into some sort of crazy infinite loop once the screen wouldn't go off and it got blazing hot. I left it on my lap hoping it would catch fire, instructing those around me to have their camera's and lawyers cell numbers readily available. - Geoff Schultz

Remember when you didnt have to restore phones? - Will via Alert Thingy

I predict 2 years...coincidentally the same length as your service contract. :P - Stresa via twhirl

Not often! oh btw i love twitter in the i check out .. Twitter/pickensplan - Bearclawcoffee

I'm not keeping count, but it's a lot more with 2.0 software than before. My unreliable impression: it used to be every few months. Now it's every few days. (on first gen HW) - Michael Markman

I'm having problems with 2G w/ 2.0 that I think are MobileMe related, yesterday push contacts stopped working for awhile, today I'm not getting email - Robert Hafer

Mine hung this morning as I was trying to power it down. Right after syncing some new apps via tether. Holding down the home and power buttons for a few seconds seemed to reset it. Hope Apple stabilizes this soon. - wrecks

Logging into MobileMe fixed my problems both times - Robert Hafer

How is the cpu and speed of the new iphone, is it faster compared to the old one? - Thomas

It looks like I'm going to have to do it too. I only had four apps on my phone, but my 3G isn't working properly (returning mysterious error messages) and after an hour with tech support and a call to apple the only solution offered is a hard restore. - Briana Tomkinson

Shaun I think most people having problems were upgrading from 2G iPhones. The 3G is my first and Ive had no problems other than the rare crash - Paul Reynolds

Leo, I think you are right about upgrading apps via wireless, I just tried and it broke the app. The iPhone switched from wi-fi to edge during update. - Robert Hafer

I'm leaving on a 10 day trip and mine better not act up while I'm gone from my synching computer!! - Shayna via StumbleRead