Apple’s iPhone software update going well so far

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Remember the pandemonium the last time iPhone owners updated software?

It was a Friday. Apple‘s iPhone 3G, the latest version of its hot gadget, began going on sale around the world and the company made available its free iPhone software update. Then a collective howl started on the East Coast and spread west, going on for six hours or so as people who dutifully downloaded the software found they couldn’t make phone calls, access their contacts or check their calendars.

That problem was fixed, but over the last 60 or so days, iPhone owners have complained about a series of issues such as dropped calls. Applications would stop working, music and video would disappear and many iPhone owners became experts at restoring data.

Today at 6 a.m. EST, Apple made available its latest iPhone software update, which is supposed to, among other things, fix eight security vulnerabilities and improve battery life for most users, ComputerWorld says.

Early signs show that the update process itself is smooth and phones are operating.

Scott Kleinberg is live blogging his iPhone updating process on the Chicago Tribune’s Redeye site as if the update were the birth of a child.

‘Updated and all I can say is Wow,’ he wrote at 11:08 Central time.