While I was very happy with the folder feature – especially how it defaulted the folder name from the program types you pushed into them – I was very disappointed I upgraded.  The phone very quickly had lost all of its processing power, to the point of being unusable.  When waking up the phone, the processor was so overloaded with some unknown tasks that it was unresponsive to most user input for a very long period of time.  I wasn’t able to pick up calls in some cases as I couldn’t get the sliding widget (on wake up) to respond.  And, since the phone has no tools to understand what it is doing, I went through a period of severe frustration.  I was even thinking that I was going to give up on the smartphone concept if the software was moving forward so quickly that the hardware was obsolete in less than two years.

Apple recently released iOS4.1, a minor upgrade to 4, and a colleague told me that his phone had a noticeable performance boost from the upgrade.  While hesitant, I upgraded thinking that it couldn’t get any worse.  I’m happy to report that the phone is performing much, much, better without any of the problems I was experiencing.  And, the folder feature still works great.

iPhone fear as ‘Rick Astley’ worm spreads – Yahoo! News.

This is a ittle misleading on two counts.

First, the worm can only stick to the phone if it has its operating system modified to allow unauthorized software to be installed (commonly referred to as “jailbroken” in the tech community).  This process removes the mechanisms which protect the phone by design.

Second, the number of people who do this is very small making the opportunities to spread the malware very small.

So, it’s not really an “iPhone worm” as much as its a “modified (to remove security measures) iPhone worm”.  We’ll have to wait and see if there’s a real security hole out there.