iPhone Signal Strength Problems In the UK

An anonymous reader writes "British iPhone users, who bought the Apple phones when they went on sale in England on Nov. 9, are reporting persistent problems with signal strength on O2, the UK's only iPhone service provider. The complaints started only 2 days later. InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe says there's a debate as to whether O2 or the iPhone is at fault; it appears to be the handset, which is unusual since US users haven't reported similar problems. Some 02 customers report that getting a replacement phone fixes things; others have had to do a software restore back to version 1.1.2 of the iPhone software."

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Re:Clarification of the summary

[Compholio]

For any Americans reading this that don't know what I'm talking about, let me put this in Slashdot terms:

I really shouldn't dignify this with a response but:

US != North America != America

We can be pedantic too.

Re:Clarification of the summary

[G Fab]

1+1=2, knucklehead.

We're not alluding to C or fortran or whatever easy ass script language you might have learned in high school. Ww're alluding to math and symbolic logic. The fact that your computer languages are unable to parse between two meanings of = that are basic is just a root problem with machines, not a limitation of the symbols that are easy for people to use in language.

Would you really have us reconsider everything we say so that they can be uniquely expressed to a computer? I have to say "else" if I already said "then"? I can't say this, that, or that?

Realize that computer symbols are based on concepts that have existed for centuries. Great concepts that the computer languages should be do their best to equal. Ordering me to simplify these concepts because your programming language is very primitive and cannot determine the different "=" based on context is ordering me to be primitive myself. And as hard as I could try, I would never lower myself quite that far.