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Apple updates iPhone to fix issues. We hope.

The jury is still out on Apple's 3.1.2 update to the iPhone operating system. Many users on the 159-page-long Apple message board thread created after 3.1 screwed up their phones, say they've found success. But there are a few who seem happy because their phone only went into 'coma mode' once since the update.

How sad.

Perusing the thread, you'll find stories from folks whose phones have gone to sleep -- and stayed there -- at inopportune times or, worse, without them having a clue. Like the Australian fellow who never received the call from his wife that his son was being transported to the hospital for an emergency surgery.

Throughout it all, for the last few weeks, Apple has been absolutely silent until this week's update. If I didn't like the iPhone so much, that arrogance -- the kind of thing Justin Long seems to accuse Microsoft of in those commercial, ironically enough -- would drive me to another phone.

I've not tried the 3.1.2 update myself yet. I'm doing some things this weekend that require my phone to work (my old one was replaced at the Apple store with one still equipped with the highly functional 3.0.1 OS -- and it works just fine.

Anybody else give it a go yet? If so, what do you think?