Hah.

I'm on Apple's side in regards to the gizmodo debacle. The thief's own roommate called Apple and pretty much confessed about the whole thing because she's afraid to be charged as an accessory to that whole crap.

I've turned off the iPhone for a couple of days and it preserved the battery charge at similar level to how I left it. Given how fast it drains through a single charge, I'd say "yeah, it was off alright"

Those midnight calls made by iPhones may explain the weird overnight battery drain issues reported by some people...

Whatever the true cause of this (intelligence gathering, usage reporting, bug reports), it must be a buggy one. A properly designed one wouldn't need to send as much data as the reported sizes (+40MB??).... and I don't think it has happened before the 3.1.3 OS?