Worst new feature: Playlist order is broken again.

Other things I’ve noticed:

• Location-based reminders are apparently only on iPhone 4S. I can set a reminder for a time but not a location.
• I hide all of my unused Apple apps in 1 folder on the last page of my homescreens to keep them out of my way. You can’t put the Newsstand app in a folder so that empty ass bookcase is going to be staring at me every time I visit the barren wasteland of my last homescreen.
• Smart Playlists now update correctly again. Since iOS 4, they wouldn’t live update on my phone (i.e. playing a song on the “unplayed” playlist should make the song disappear from the playlist without having to sync but that didn’t work since iOS 4).
• Playlists aren’t ordered correctly now. Playlists that start with numbers come after playlists that start with letters. Underscores are ignored.
• The new Notifications alone make the upgrade worth it. Yeah, the upgrade is free but still, those old notifications were the shittiest thing I’ve ever seen on a phone.
• The notifications area has weather and stocks, too. Neato.
• If your Apple ID is just a username and not an email address, you’ll have to change that when you first start your phone after upgrading. If you also have a MobileMe address and want to use that as your  Apple ID, you’re going to have some weirdness because you have to use your MobileMe address to sign in to your phone but then your old non-email Apple ID to sign in to the iTunes Store and GameCenter.
• I can’t use iCloud yet because I have a MobileMe account that needs to be moved to iCloud first and I can’t do that yet.
• Syncing no longer disables your phone. Instead of the screen being on with a “Sync in Progress” message at the top, there is just a small sync icon spinning in the status bar up top. Your phone screen will go black if you sync it and let it sit. This caused me to unplug it once in the middle of a sync because I assumed it was finished.
• The messaging/SMS app has greens where the blues should be. Lame.

For the next week, I’ll still be using my iPhone 4 so I can’t play with Siri or the location-based notifications yet. That should be some fun (and/or annoying) features to test. Maybe I’ll even use them later, who knows.  I’m still not in the habit of using Search homescreen to find things on the phone.

[UPDATE: Sean Herrala pointed out that you can add location-based reminders in the Reminder app on iPhone 4 but you have to add it as a Reminder, not a Task. I didn't have a Reminders section in the app, only Tasks, so I added a new section called "Reminders" and then items I added had location-based reminders available. Weird. Sounds like a bug to me.  Also, when adding a location-based reminder, you are limited to locations that are in your contact list. In all of the Siri demos, they say things like "remind me to get milk at the grocery store", I wonder if that guy has a contact called "Grocery Store" or something...]

and was glad to see someone else putting it to good use… It is the same cloth used on this sofa, as seen in the window of Neiman Marcus Last Call at Discovery Mills in Georgia.

Gary won.

Taken with my mobile phone in the summer of 2006