2.2 bricks iPhone?

Since updating to 2.2 I have had my phone brick twice. Not sure why, I power the phone up and it asks me to connect ti iTunes. If I ignore that, power down the phone and restart it, it works fine. It actually says " iPhone Activated" when I restart. Any ideas why the phone would be losing authentication?
FWIW, both times this has happened I started the phone where there is no/very weak cell signal. This is new since 2.2 though, it never happened on 2.0 or 2.1. Any help would be appreciated.

well yes and no, until I restart, it it is bricked. I guess not, because it is not permanent. However, a simple restart seems to satisfy it. When this happened to you, were you in an area with good cell signal? Just trying to see if that is the reason or see what had in common. I will search to read the 2.1 stories, but it seems this is in Apples court.

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