My solution to this has been to simply not use my phone for anything reasonable. I browse the internet, play games, capture media that get sync’d to dropbox, a

My solution to this has been to simply not use my phone for anything reasonable. I browse the internet, play games, capture media that get sync’d to dropbox, and I use VPN/VNC + ssh to do work on other machines. iPhone has potential to be more, but it isn’t. By Apple’s design, the most powerful thing it can do is be an access point to more capable machines.