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blog.wired.com - 8/14/2008

What's Wrong With the 3-G in iPhone 3G?

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There's something in the air in the Apple community, and this time it's not the same old buzz about a next-gen iPod, Steve Jobs's health or a Mac tablet: It's the sour topic of the iPhone 3G's poor data reception . Specifically, people aren't happy about how fast the iPhone downloads data over AT&T's wireless network. Many have reported that the phone frequently switches from the ...

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businessweek.com - 8/14/2008

What's Behind the iPhone 3G Glitches

— businessweek.com — What's Behind the iPhone 3G Glitches Dropped calls and choppy Web surfing on Apple's latest smartphone stem... from an Infineon chip. A fix is on the way by Peter Burrows Complaints over dropped calls and choppy Web connections on Apple's iPhone 3G have ... (more) What's Behind the iPhone 3G Glitches

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discussions.apple.com - 8/12/2008

Support - Discussions - iPhone 3G Reception Problems? You're ...

— discussions.apple.com — I suspect that most writers on this forum, even if they are experiencing problems, would have no... way to tell if it is a chipset or software based problem. People get hysterical when they experience a problem and sometimes jump to the worst case ... (more) Support - Discussions - iPhone 3G Reception Problems? ...

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blog.wired.com - 8/14/2008

Participate in Wired.com's Global iPhone 3G Study

— blog.wired.com — IPhone 3G network performance issues aren't isolated to the United States, and the time has come to... collect global data. IPhone 3G owners from around the world: Wired.com needs your help. We've created an interactive ZeeMap , and we'd like you ... (more) Participate in Wired.com's Global iPhone 3G Study

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Is there an Issue with 3G Reception on the iPhone 3G?
I4U News — ... of iPhone 3G test results. More details on Wired . Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Report: iPhone Fix in the Works
Today @ PC World — ... just want a solution. The good news: The new "inside sources" say Apple's already working on it -- and it may be far easier than initially suspected. In contrast to theories of hardware replacement or even a full recall, Business Week's sources suggest a software upgrade will solve the widespread woes. It's a curious proposal, but a promising one -- if it proves to be true. Apple's Answer For its part, Apple is continuing to publicly take the "ignore it and it'll go away approach," insisting there is no problem and that the phones are working fine. The company even locked ...

Wired Survey: iPhone 3G Issues Might Be the Network After all [IPhone 3G]
Gizmodo — ... yapping over the last few weeks. In major metro areas in the US, 3G performance is slow as balls—10 out of 30 in San Francisco reported speeds as slow as EDGE, pointing to overloaded towers. (And because AT&T;'s 3G equipment is mostly deployed on existing 2G towers which are spaced farther apart than 3G's range, when you get the to edge of a tower's coverage, you're going to get crappy performance.) Another thing pointing to tower overload, anecdotally, is that the noise level of complaints has been growing steadily since launch (re: 3G speeds, it was relatively ...

AT&T's Internal Plans To Fix Their Network [Making This Deathstar Fully Operational: More Bars, More Places, Less Irony]
Gizmodo — ... And as Wired has realized, 3G range being more limited, AT&T; can't actually blanket a city by using the same tower locations as their EDGE counterparts. But my engineer friend also said, "We went from 2.5g experts to 3g novices." They don't have the training or experience to find or fix issues as well as they do on EDGE networks. Many in the field are also lacking the expensive test gear for UMTS to find bad channels and interference. ...

Study points to network weakness as source of iPhone 3G woes
AppleInsider — ... for more than 75 percent of zero-data results, presumably because those users were dropped from AT 's 3G network during their speed tests. Among the U.S. areas that fared the worst were some major metropolitan areas, such as San Francisco, where 10 out of 30 participants reported 3G speeds that barely match that of EDGE. "This pattern is linear with femtocell developer Dave Nowicki's explanation that in major metropolitan cities where the most iPhone users reside, 3G towers are getting overloaded , resulting in slowdowns or delivering EDGE-like performance as a result," the ...