iPhone 3G isn't necessarily
Networks place the blame at Apple's door
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Eager punters cooing over their 3G iPhones are finding the third generation connectivity not quite what they had hoped, and according to some reports Apple's super-phone is failing to meet the requirements of the 3G standard.
Apple took a lot of stick when the original iPhone lacked 3G, a decision that forced UK operator O2 to deploy an EDGE network just to support the 2.5G technology the iPhone did have. The new version does support WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access - the 3G standard used by GSM networks) but it seems the quality of that support isn't up to much.
At first the networks looked to be at fault, but the global nature of the problem belies that, and T-Mobile Netherlands has gone so far as to post information on the subject squarely blaming Apple's handset for the problems.
Swedish journal Ny Teknik has gone into more detail, speaking to engineers who have tested the 3G iPhone and report that the 3G transmissions are well below the level required by the WCDMA standard - the nominal sensitivity is several decibels below what it should be.
Ny Teknik speculates that the prototypes must have had better performance to pass acceptance testing, so the problem presumably crept in during mass production. If true, this points to a hardware fault, which could be tough for Apple to fix.
Every mobile operator selling the iPhone will claim to have tested the sensitivity, but the reality is that once one European operator has passed a device the rest will accept the result on the nod - this leaves more prototypes for senior management to tout at meetings.
No one expects the iPhone to run as fast as advertised (well, almost no one), but if the specs don't meet the standard then the company has some explaining to do. T-Mobile NL is recommending that punters hope for a software update from Apple, but if it's a hardware fault then Apple will probably slide out an improved model at some point while denying there was ever a problem with the original. ®
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COMMENTS
And when it doesn't sell, for the same reasons as last time
They will drop their prices. Shit, I thought Apple put SOME value on what customers thought, obviously not.
If this is the way operators are going to treat their customers, this iPhone will flop just like the last one did (outside of America). Purses are being tightened and people know what extortion is when they see it.
I was going to buy one but I am off to get an N95 instead... better phone too.
iPhone doesn't have a hook to attach a lucky talisman
Well, my Japanese girlfriend says the iPhone is inferior to all others NOT because of any technical features, software, user interface, signal strength etc etc etc, NO BUT because it doesn't have a hook to attach a lucky talisman, which apparently all other mobile phones on the Japanese market have. Japanese females like to attach those lucky talisman thingies to things, especially mobile phones. I didn't think of it, but apparently to some of them this is more important a feature than how well the electronics and the software perform.
To me this was a wake up call, a reminder that we are taking ourselves too seriously and that we should more often shut up instead of passing universal judgement on things. The reasons we have why we think something is superior or inferior may not matter to the next person at all, and the reason the next person may have why they think something is superior or inferior may have totally escaped us.
Keyboard Accents
"If the keyboard isn't set up for the language, it appears I can forget about accents."
Just hold down your finger on whatever letter you want the accent for, while typing - it should come up with all the possible variations of that letter. Slide your finger over to the one you want to select it.
Steve because things really are that simple with Apple products (ok, ok, bash me already!) :-P
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