Dead Media Beat: the short lifespan of the iPhone

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/04/the-short-lifespan-of-the-iphone/

“For the past several weeks, I’ve been noticing something about my iPhone: Severe slowness. I put it sleep and wake it back up, clear its memory (with an app), restart it and even sometimes manually reboot it — some of these methods alleviate the symptoms, sometimes. Other times, I have to just deal with it being too unbearably slow to do much of anything, including the basic phone functionality like placing a call or sending