Failed iPhone Firmware Upgrade

Yesterday, Apple released the much anticipated iPhone 2.1 firmware update. With speedier backups, better battery life and more accurate GPS, it was long overdue.

Once I was alerted by iTunes to the update, I let it do it's thing. This entails:

1. Downloading the update
2. Backing up the iPhone (just in case!)
3. Upgrading the phone

All was going swimmingly until halfway through the upgrade, the worst possible thing could happen did happen. I had a powercut! As such, I had a half-upgraded iPhone which didn't do anything. After a slight panic, I figured that it would be ok, after all, iTunes backs up my iPhone regularly! (At least that was what I was tying to tell myself!)

Once power was restored, I started up my mac and iTunes immediately recognised that my phone was poorly. It offered to restore the backup and do the upgrade all at once. So I left it to it, and half an hour later I had a working phone again!

Now, since the update things have been a lot snappier, but I'm unsure if that's to do with the upgrade or a total reset - possibly both. The only annoying thing about the reset was that all my carefully arranged application icons were all muddled up. But that's a small concern overall!