“Eva Wieselgren, a journalist in Sweden, originally presented the findings of a study by Bluetest earlier this week which confirmed that the iPhone 3G’s antenna and its 3G reception were functioning normally. When readers complained that the tests didn’t properly single out a problematic phone, Wieselgren asked for volunteers who owned a bad iPhone 3G to offer their unit for additional testing,” Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.
“Despite the wide visibility of the report, Wieselgren wrote that there were ‘unexpectedly few’ who responded to claim ownership of a bad iPhone, but two users were identified who had experienced few or no bars of 3G service in areas where other mobile phones reported lots of bars of signal strength,” McLean reports. “Wieselgren reported that the lab found that all these iPhones to ‘have no problems with the 3G communication in the test chamber. They send and receive signals in a fully normal manner. They do not disconnect earlier than the others we have tested when the signal becomes weaker.'”
“The lab findings refute the speculation of financial analyst Richard Windsor of Nomura Securities, who issued a report two weeks ago that accused the iPhone 3G’s Infineon chipset of being faulty and possibly requiring a massive recall to resolve. Infineon said it was not aware of any problems with its chips, which are also used by Samsung,” McLean reports.
MacDailyNews Note: It’s not the first time that Windsor has been wrong about Apple.
McLean continues, “A broader, informal study conducted by Wired that involved 2,600 users in different countries suggested that the iPhone 3G’s problems were more likely due to limitations of carriers’ networks, particularly AT&T in the US, where users reported 75 percent of the zero data results from dropped calls and less than half of the average data throughput compared to users on European carriers.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
Time to gin up some new FUD, future iPhone roadkill.
@MDN Take:
Gin? But it’s only 11:00 in the morning. Surely we should finish our sangrias first.
The iPhone.
The very best device I have ever owned, and it works perfectly.
I wish the world of Windows and Symbian and Crackberry would just STFU and disappear.
More fools in this world than there are in the World of Fools, a planet full of foolish people in the Zargon galaxy, a long way from here.
Latest reports from Planetary rating experts suggest that Earth will soon be renamed the ‘New Planet of Fools’ ver 2.0.
“gin up” – to concoct, exaggerate, invent, lie.
Not surprising, but this is:
OBAMA BIDEN 2008. Insert “N LA” after the “BI” in BIDEN:
OBAMA BIN LADEN 2008
That’s a shame. Now the Uh Oh troll will have to retire his massive recall FUD and start fantasizing about some new, imagined dire consequence for Apple.
And Wordsmith anagrams to “throws dim”.
Hey, at least mine actually made a little sense.
Insert N LA? WTF are you on?
i have a 2g iphone that i upgraded to the latest 2.0.2 and ever since my 2.0+ upgrade i’ve had dropped calls, failed calls, calls going direct to voicemail, even when i have full bars and excellent reception on a full battery. its a problem with the firmware, coz at 1.4 i had none of those problems.
Obama Biden… Obama Binladen… Osama bin Laden
Will cause a certain small percentage to recoil subliminally. Basic psychology on a mass scale. When dealing with the recent razor-thin margins in U.S Presidential elections – it may be all it takes.
Of course, McCain is already ahead in recent polls anyway.
Biden is a bad choice for many reasons (plagerism, staus quo vs. “change,” boring, bald, liberal, pro-retreat, baby killer, etcetera).
The “Obama Binladen” business doesn’t help.
Obama is proving that he’s not smart enough to be President and his advisors aren’t smart enough to get him elected.
Imagine if McCain picks Condi and splits the black vote: GAME OVER.
I like the first take on “Gin up”.
But, I’m a beer man myself. (Good beer that is. Don’t give me any of that Bud, Coors, or Miller water.)
I think any failure that might be occurring is probably a carrier problem that will be fixed by adding bandwidth. I have a 3-g cingular phone that has rarely had problems in the past, but since the introduction of the new iPhone, I have trouble accessing the internet, and many calls that don’t go through in both directions. Calls-in don’t even go to voicemail — they just ring. So, on the positive side, I think that iphone demand has significantly outpaced Apple and AT&T;’s wildest expectations.
Windsor might have been paid by some hedge-fund who had shorted AAPL stock …
Let me just add this. Every day, I would lose my 3G call at the same spot driving home. It was like clock work.
This problem did not happen after 2.0.2.
@ mo
Well, isn’t that interesting, “coz” . . .
I also have a 2g iphone that I upgraded to the latest 2.0.2, and ever since my 2.0+ upgrade I’ve had NO–NO–dropped calls, failed calls, calls going direct to voicemail, even when I have only two bars on a half-full battery. There’s clearly NO problem with the firmware, for I’ve had none of those problems from day one.
See how easy that was?
ATT has a slow 3G network in Raleigh NC. I have done random speed checks and all have been capped at a download rate of no more than 400kbits/sec and an upload rate of no more than 50 kbits/sec. ATT needs to beef it up quick!
I want Germany’s 3G speeds!
@Actually Interesting
Look up the word puerile and then look into a mirror. Then, have an adult explain this post to you.
(Did you actually throw bald in there? Are you nine?)
It seems the iPhone has exposed the telecoms and their “mature” networks.
@dd
On the iPhone while driving? See you in the Darwin awards…
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Actually Interesting writes, “Imagine if McCain picks Condi and splits the black vote: GAME OVER.”
I can’t imagine McCain would do something so foolish. Obama is actively trying to suggest McCain would result in a “third Bush term”. Given that Rice was head of the NSC during Bush’ first term, head of State in his second, having Rice on the ticket would just make Obama’s case. Her own legacy, inseparable from that of Bush, is one of failures. McCain is not stupid.
But this is MDN, not a political forum, so here’s my token Mac note. However this election goes, there will be a new crew of young over-achievers coming to town, many of them Mac users. We *may* see an openness to something other than entrenched Windows. That is the kind of change I think we’d all welcome. The rest can be argued elsewhere.
Can bald men win elections?
By Daniel Hannan, Daily Telegraph
If you think I’m being frivolous, ask yourself when a bald presidential candidate last defeated a hirsute one. Seriously. The past half century has produced just one bald president: Gerald Ford, who got to the White House without being elected to it, and promptly lost it to Jimmy Carter. Ike, of course, was pretty thin on top, but then so was his Democrat opponent, the aristocratic Adlai Stevenson.
Am I making too much of one country’s electoral history? Then look at the United Kingdom, where the situation is even worse…
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2007/09/22/can_bald_men_win_elections
Of course, it’s only one isolated incident, but last night at the baseball game in MinuteMaid Park in Houston, two of us had iPhones (one original and my 3G), and two had Crackberries. Some question came up and off we went to the Interwebs. Well, I did. Mr, iPhone original didn’t bother to play, and the other two couldn’t access anything, even though they both showed 3G coverage. I answered that question, and perhaps a larger one.
Where is the one with the handle “Going Down”. What say you now to that frivolous law suit you were so passionately supporting? I’m sure those lawyers are still getting paid by some idiots.
@FUDsucker Proxy
Don’t be an @$$ (though I can see that you already are). I could count on losing the call at the exact same intersection every day with 3G. This happend without fail for almost a month straight (though some days I switched back to Edge to avoid the problem).
Since 2.0.2, the problem no longer happens. Sure, testing while driving is not the most scientific method, but like clockwork, I could tell the person I was talking to that I was about to lose the call.
@ mo
Back up your Iphone data, restore the factory settings, reload you data. Check on Apples website under Iphone support, and get the problem fixed. Don’t spread unnecessary FUD you have just as much ability to seek a solution to the problem. If it persist go to your local Apple store if there is one near by and have them help you fix it.
Raymond in DC,
Oh, yes, you’re right. I didn’t think of that. The black vote gains would be negated many times over by the hay the Obama operatives would make over Condi’s Bush ties.
Well then, just about any other black candidate would do the trick – not sure McCain even needs it at this point – but how about J.C Watts, for example?
By the way, I’m black. I do not refer to myself as “African Amercian.” Also, those outside the black community should know that Obama is a very light-skinned black. A darker skinned candidate like J.C Watts will be more appealing to the black voters. He’s “more pure.” These are not my personal thoughts, but I’m just telling you something from my experience.
Basically, it would not be difficult for McCain to “out-black” Obama if he wanted to.
With the black vote usually 90% or more Democrat, McCain could virtually guarantee the election by fracturing that voting block.
Actually Interesting,
You are right. If the Dems lose any significant portion of their “guaranteed” black vote, they have no chance at all.