Receiving call while in the middle of a "sync opperation.

the other day, I received a call on my iphone 3g while it was in the middle of a sync opperation..
the GUI on the phone wouldn't allow me to accept the phone call...
the "syncing" progress status was displayed on the phone with no way to answer the incoming call..
is this intentional? can't use the phone app while there is a sync in progress? If so, maybe it's better to send the call straight to vmail rather than frustrate a confused customer with a phone that's ringing but can't be answered.. Many people might be inclined to cancel the sync, and pull the phone off the USB cable to answer the call (which is exactly what I did).. and probably not the best thing to do for the data integrity of the syncing process.

yeah.. that works here as well..
still seams inadvisable to cancel a sync operation midstream.. lots of things don't cancel all that "elegantly".. though maybe this one does fine...
I think my questions of
1) was this apple's intent that we cancel the sync operation to answer an incoming call?
2) during a sync operation is the iphone incapable of running the phone app in parallel with a data sync? or is it just not showing the "answer incoming call" Gui, because instead it's "showing you" the syncing progress dialog on top..
3) could they just make the answer incoming call button pop up on top and then you wouldn't have to cancel the sync?

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