The iphone honeymoon was short-lived.
The web is suddenly ablaze with stories of iphone connectivity, reception problems and weak signal strength attributed to engineering problems introduced in mass production.
This serves as yet another reminder that early tech adopters are essentially volunteering as guinea pigs in order to indulge their need to be the first on the block to use the latest toys while the kinks are still being worked out. Perhaps this news will help redress the stock-out inventory issues Rogers has been confronting with its product launch in Canada.
Here is an overview report from c-net
Ny Teknik, Sweden's foremost engineering weekly, obtained a report on tests (conducted by unnamed experts) that showed some handsets' sensitivity to third-generation network signals is well below the level specified in the 3G standard. This report claims they are failing tests that determine whether they meet minimum G3 connectivity standards.
So far Apple has not responded to these claims.
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I think you knew this post was coming!
When reading Apple news, because of the secrecy that Apple is known for, many articles are pure speculation. When you say something like The Bloom is Off the Rose or the honeymoon was short-lived, if you aren't reading multiple articles and blogs you aren't getting the full picture. Plus, you aren't an iPhone user who has experienced any of this first hand and can base your own opinion through user experience. It has not been confirmed it is an engineering problem, it may also be fixed by a software update.
I am in full agreement that the iPhone is not perfect, and that bugs and flaws do exist, but the article that you are basing your opinion on is a very biased article by a disgruntled user. Any of the sources that he references are again, purely opinion. Nothing has been proven as the root cause of these issues. And when you have 1 million iPhones sold in a month, there are always people who are going to have issues. But what you neglect to recognize is that the majority of people are NOT having all these issues.
I think us early adopters know that we are guinea pigs for new products. We aren't stupid. And we know there will be bugs and growing pains as there is with any new product. But you know what? We don't care. We enjoy the excitement of having a new product and experiencing it first hand and basing our own opinions on it. What is wrong with that? I don't think there is any lesson to be learned.
Have you spoken to any current iPhone users? Have you heard of anyone having reception problems?
5+ friends have bought iPhones and there have been no complaints about reception or dropped calls. I actually find my iPhone has better reception than my Blackberry ever did. I have talked over 7 hours on my iPhone and I have yet to experience a dropped call or a switch to Edge during a call. Given, Rogers is known to have one of the best and newest 3G network. This article is also very US based.
The positives with this device far out way some of the negatives that NOT everyone experience. Just like any review people are very quick to be vocal and negative.
Until people are users or have experiences to back it up, people should not be so quick to judge. Find me a user who would return their iPhone tomorrow.
Don't shoot the messenger. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I am not the source of the studies.
The reports are not isolated to particular websites. They are now being widely reported in the popular media.
Check out (for example) this Canadian press story (at the CBC web-site) it has a heading that reads "problems widespread:.
http://tinyurl.com/563sqz
I expect ultimately Apple will be forced to acknowledge these reports and issue a denial / damage control press release in response.
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