According to
Saul Hansell at the NY Times, Apple intends to break phones that have been unlocked.
But
Francine Hardaway and Patrick Scoble both updated this afternoon, and bad things happened. Hardaway's phone was "fried," she needed a new phone, and Scoble lost all his data.
Hardaway: "Trust me, I didn't hack it."
Jeff Clavier: "This effing piece of s..t is bricked."
Robert Scoble, Patrick's dad,
updated successfully, and got the new features.
Spaley's iPhone is "a useless piece of crap."
Looks like Josh Bancroft's iPhone was hosed too. I would hold off on the update until we find out what's going wrong.
Sugar Attack: "It wasn't until I saw a friend tweet about the new iPhone firmware upgrade that I realized I could now access the iTunes WiFi store."
September 29th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
When they saw me in the Apple store, they knew I hadn’t hacked my phone, because I am a woman of a certain age who does not look like a bag lady. (More like a person who wouldn’t even know how to operate an Iphone than someone who would hack one.)
They were very good to me, and gave me the new phone immediately. The update just froze my phone, which kept giving me the univeral yellow triangle sign with the exclamation point inside it, and instructions to “please connect to iTunes.”
I have a theory: there was something wrong with my phone to begin with, and the update just pushed it over the edge. I think this because my new phone has none of the quirks (hanging before scrolling to contacts, hanging before deleting an email) that my old one did.