So I’ve lived with iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 GSM for a month and a half.  What have I found during that time?  Random issues, that’s what.

General

With the general OS, I’ve noticed a few slow-downs and keyboard entry lag.  Things simply aren’t as responsive as in iOS 4 which felt far more “tight” and well tested.  Twitter integration is handy, but Facebook integration would have been far more useful.

One issue with the OS that I experienced that shocked me was when my vibrate feature ceased to work, no matter how I changed a setting or toggled things on or off, vibrate would not come back to life.  As someone whose vibrate motor was shot from the factory, this was un-settling and concerned me that my vibrate motor may have died.  So I performed a simple reboot by holding the sleep button and the home button until the phone powered down and showed the Apple logo.  The first odd thing I noticed was the loading bar-which hearkened back to my Over-The-Air (OTA) update experience with the iOS 5.0.1 update.  This was a hint that something else was going on.

Once my phone was back up and running, the battery meter percentage feature was turned off, the screen brightness was dimmed and help pop-ups were showing up.  My sound settings (ringtone, text tone, etc.) were all reset to factory defaults as well.  Oddly enough, my vibrate feature came back to life (though now it does require the occasional shake to get it to heave to, so it is sticking *le sigh*)

Music.App

Prior to iOS 5 I had some minor issues with the iPod.App application.  They were the occasional small hiccups.  With the new Music.App I’ve experienced lag issues, tracks often stuttering when attempting to begin playback using the headphone remote after waking the iPhone from standby and the displayed info on a track belonging to a completely different song.

Those are the problems I’ve encountered to date, I’ll post back if and when I find some more!  Thanks for reading!