iPhone 3G initial thoughts & headache I was able to get the white 16GB iPhone 3G at the Apple Store this morning and wanted to share some initial thoughts. The activation in store wasn't too bad, I got into the Apple Store around 8:20 a.m., asked for a white 16GB iPhone, went through the credit check, an Apple Store employee activate my iPhone through iTunes, and I was out of the store by 8:45 a.m. It went much faster, and easier than I had expected, or so I thought.

When I got home I was able to restore all of my information, music, videos, and applications that got backed up with iTunes from my 1st iPhone.

I am very impressed with the look and feel of the iPhone 3G. It feels great in the hand due to it's curved back. Surfing the web with 3G kicks EDGE to the curb, and being able to download apps from the AppStore anywhere i very cool. Playing music through the speakers of the iPhone 3G also sounds much better than the original.

I used my iPhone for a few hours until out of the blue I got a white screen of death. I tried to turn the iPhone 3G off and nothing happened, I then reset it holding the power button and the hold button, all I got was a white screen.I had to connect the iPhone 3G to iTunes and force it into recovery mode. iTunes gave me a message that the iPhone's software needed to be restored, so I restored. After the restore was finished I got the screen below.

It turns out that history is repeating itself, just like last year the iTunes activation service could not handle rush of activations.

Gizmodo has received an official statement from AT&T about the issue:

"We have had reports that customers attempting to download new iTunes 7.7 software to their new iPhone may get an error message saying "page not found." We have reported this issue to Apple. While Apple works to resolve this issue, we are asking customers to sync their newly activated phone later at home."

Apple is working on resolving all theses issues, the link to download iTunes 7.7 has been removed from the site.

Stay tuned.

Labels: apple, iphone 3G, itunes

  ¶ posted by Jimmie Geddes, Editor @ 7/11/2008 02:02:00 PM