Given Apple's track record of seamless engineering and just-works interfacing, you would think that only the hackers would end up with bricked iPhones. You would be wrong.
If the 1.1.1 update turned your pristine AT&T-locked handset into a roundrect skipping stone, unable to complete a restore operation, make sure you have the dock plugged into a bare-metal USB 2.0 port on your machine. Macjournals anecdotally reports that USB hubs, including Apple keyboards, may cause updating errors that result in the phone being more or less inoperable after completion.
This is a bit like my Moto Q, which actually uses more power when idle than even some powered USB ports supply. On second thought, it's not at all like my Moto Q, which is about as useful as a broken iPhone even when fully charged.
Did the 1.1.1 update "brick" your iPhone? [Macjournals via Daring Fireball]
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