The first one consistently crashed almost as if it was sneezing.  We’re not talking about the Safari instability of the first 3G’s but just general use it would crash to the home screen in the middle of calls, texts, browsing, app usage, whatever.  It crashed.  A lot.

The second one did pretty much the same although a little less frequently.  However now it had acquired a new personality.  One that loved to delete or in its case “forget” all my contacts.  So rather than getting a phone call from “Joe Smith” it was “867-5309″.  This makes it rather difficult to know who is texting you without being slightly rude and having to ask everyone “who is this?”.  So iPhone #2 was traded in for iPhone #3…

iPhone 3 pretty much has all the same problems as the first two (I’ve seen no obvious improvement from trading them in).  In addition to the problems of the first two it now also doesn’t switch from headphone mode back to normal.  I’ve manage to outsmart it with the contacts forgetting by using a microsoft exchange server to sync my contacts and all information and as soon as I reboot the phone all that will come back now.  Take that you confounded device, I’m smarter than you, you hear me?!  No… I see.

Now I reset a few times more a day.  I’m not sure what my average is but if I could make a recommendation to possible iPhone buyers… wait.  The honeymoon while amazing and the memories of it resurface daily, the day to day nagging and inability to function as a “phone” will definitely get old.  Fast.  This doesn’t include the AT&T “service”.  The quotes indicate that there is none.  AT&T’s service is incredibly bad.  I used to be a subscriber about 10 years ago and switched to Verizon due to the exceptionally bad service.  After the second version of the iPhone came out I decided to switch back.  Two versions should be enough for them to iron out the bugs.  Right?  I was wrong.  The phone is buggy, the service is atrocious and I’m left pining for a second phone phone.  You know one that actually can make and receive calls without dropping them and can send and receive MMS?

And what is so hard about coding copy & paste?  Why oh why doesn’t this smart phone have copy & paste?  I don’t get it…

With that I go back to my lovely iPhone.  The phone with the best web browser of any smart phone and a user interface to die for.  I love you iPhone… and yet, I hate you.