“iPhone owners are reporting that the latest software update for their smart device has significantly boosted its wireless reception,” Gregg Keizer reports for Computerworld.
“Although Apple Inc. only said Version 1.0.2 included unspecified ‘bug fixes,’ owners on several popular message forums, including those on the MacRumors site, have come forward with claims that the iPhone now connects to wireless access points once written off as out of range,” Keizer reports.
“‘My Wi-Fi reception is definitely better,’ a user identified as schulzmc said yesterday… ‘Wifi reception and connection is much improved,’ seconded snowboarder on the same thread yesterday,” Keizer reports.
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My WiFi is much better now too, and I don’t even own an iPhone!
and Leon is getting laaaaaarger!
It improved the WiFi reception on my MacBook AND on my Palm PDA.
I am thinking that maybe it is actually improving the WiFi transmitting and receiving power on all the wireless routers, not the iPhone itself.
My red snapper is picking up Radio Moscow from 1952 and it doesn’t itch or feel swollen any more. Is that significant?
I have noticed absolutely no Wi-Fi reception difference at all between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2, it appears to merely be a placebo effect here. Restarting the device (forced by the update) likely accounts for any minor differences that these individuals noticed.
What 1.0.2 actually did fix however was the white balance issue many were having with the built-in camera. Side by side comparisons of photos taken before and after the update are dramatically improved.
Just reading about this makes me feel schnappier. Thanks, Apple!
My Dell laptop seems snappier!
Ooops, sorry. Make that “crappier”.
My MacBook Pro’s Safari is snappier.
My Apple //e is snappier in fact Oregon Trail is smokin!
I was snappier once.
Once.
@ MadMac
Johnny, what can you make out of this?
This? Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl…
@ TT
My Linksys router is WAPpier.
@MadMac & ChrissyOne. Please send me $2.00 for my cleaning bill for spewed beverage. Yeah, I know, but Airplane quotes, especialy “hat…brooch…pterdactyl” make me laugh.
And, taking MacGeek Pro’s cue, I’ll be diggin my old //e out of the storage building to test the iPhone 1.0.2 update for teh snappy. I wonder if it helps the IIgs, too?!
I guess I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.
Wi-Fi reception’s getting weak . . .
“I’ve got to concentrate… concentrate… concentrate… Hello?… hello… hello… Echo… echo… echo… Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon… Manny Mota… Mota… Mota… “
“And don’t call me Shirley.”
my keyboard has been typing much faster after this release, also noticed it to be a bit more scratch resistant after upgrading to 1.0.2.
since updating my zune with the new update I have had better success syncing it with my itunes.
@B…
That’s strange, because I was going to say that my keyboard has gotten a lot slower. It’s really noticeable and somewhat annoying.
Since the update, my vah-jay-jay has topped itching.
first the earth cooled, then the dinosaurs came but they got too big and fat and died out and turned to oil, and then the arabs came….
This forum is definitely snappier today.
I speak jive.
I’d say the reception is better. I was setting up a co-worker’s iBook (he got used for $300), and he had a full signal showing on his Airport, and my iPhone had about 1/2 signal. Now, the same spot, the iPhone is getting full signal now.