Im sure I’m not the only one who’s been having some bugs show up on their lovely new iPhone 3G. The software’s just plain beta-like. It was with great excitement then that I downloaded the 2.0.1 firmware, hoping for some of these bugs to be squashed. And they were. For a while.

One of the more annoying problems for me, is the laggy keyboard when typing a new SMS message. I sent a lot of messages, so this was starting to get on my nerves somewhat. I also NEVER delete old messages. This got me wondering…..

So, after some thinking (and no, it didn’t hurt !) I fired up the SMS app and had a look at the message history for my most used contacts. Sure enough, I found myself scrolling A LONG way before I got to the top.

In case any of you haven’t figured out where I’m going with this yet, I stabbed my sausage fingers at the ‘clear’ button, and watched as the list disappeared. Sure enough, the keyboard suddenly sprang back into life. Pressing keys actually meant a character was typed. Immediately ! I’d not seen that happen in what felt like forever !

Obviously your milage may vary, but something as simple as clearing the messages from a conversation definitely helped me. Is the problem a simple case of not enough RAM to hold a long list of text AND a keyboard at once? Your guess is as good as mine !

I’m very interested to hear if this helps others. Be sure to let me know either on here, or my Twitter presence !