While iOS4 is pretty nice, there are a few somewhat minor/buggy things that bother me.

  • Exhibit A: see picture. Listening to music via iPod app, rotate horizontal and back vertical. The top status bar stays as if it was horizontal, while the rest of the app switches back to vertical mode.  Sort of random, doesn’t happen all the time.
  • The second gripe I have is also with orientation and the accelerometer.  While watching a video/podcast in horizontal mode and the video ends, the iPhone doesn’t “know” that the iPhone is horizontal anymore.  The video plays as if it was vertical.  You have to physically move the iPhone back vertical and back to get the video to recognize it’s proper state.
  • The last thing is signal strength indicator.  The phone will display a couple bars of 3G, then out of the blue, it will switch to Edge or just say No Service.  A quick flip in and out of Airplane mode puts the phone back to 3G again.  It’s pretty random, but annoying.

Other than those things, I’m pretty happy with iOS4.0.2.

Exhibit A