“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.