iPhone Backup Lottery. Rob Griffith's on the woe that is backing up your iPhone:

In the midst of all this glorious good news, however, there’s this one annoying new feature in iPhone 2.0 software…and it’s such an annoying feature that my hand trembles whenever it approaches my Mac Pro’s iPhone docking station, to drop the iPhone in for a routine sync. Well, OK, maybe my hand doesn’t really tremble, but I do approach this routine task with a great amount of trepidation, delaying it as long as possible. What feature could actually be so bad that I feared seeing it in action, you might ask?

The answer is the forced backup every time you sync your iPhone. Apparently, if you have a lot of apps, this backup can take over an hour. Like my iPod, I would expect my phone to just work, and from what I can tell, the iPhone is just as wonky, probably more so, then my little music player.