Infineon Chipset May Be Cause of IPhone 3G Issues

JagsLive sends along a CNet blog piece about a plausible theory to explain the iPhone 3G connection problems many users have experienced. Apple has not acknowledged any such problems. "Richard Windsor of Nomura published a research note... Tuesday singling out the iPhone 3G's chipset, made by Infineon, as the probable culprit for the reception problems we reported on Monday. The dropped calls, service interruptions, and abrupt network switches experienced by iPhone 3G users reminded Windsor of similar complaints five years ago, when 3G phones were first launched in Europe. 'We believe that these issues are typical of an immature chipset and radio protocol stack where we are almost certain that Infineon is the 3G supplier,' Windsor wrote. 'This is not surprising as the Infineon 3G chipset solution has never really been tested in the hands of users. Some people will not experience these problems as it is only in areas where the radio signal weakens that the immaturity of the stack really shows.'"

Comments

Refund anyone?

[psiberia]

Do you think service providers are going to refund?

You are paying for a service and a phone which is faulty. Under a contract, does this mean they are failing to proving service and a owner could leave the contract?

I know myself, I only use the phone for a few numbers and they have all dropped no matter when I used the phone thus far...

Blind brand devotion

[syousef]

I have zero sympathy for those that buy a technically inferior product without evaluating it because it happens be made by their favourite company (which has never treated the customer right in the first place). If intelligent people choose to become members of the cult of the turtle neck, buy an overpriced technically inferior phone missing features so common they are considered industry standard, and overpay for the usage charges because brand loyalty has driven demand through the roof, nothing is going to protect them from their own stupidity. There's more to a phone than a gimmicky interface more suited to a mp3 player.

Keep your faulty iPhones, I'll stick to my Nokia 6220 classic which I researched to death before buying (and which still has the odd quirk but nothing I can't live with and only one minor bug I wasn't aware of when I bought it). No brand loyalty here by the way. I turned down spending an extra $20/month on an n95 8gb despite some nifty features, because the piece of turd only does USB 1.1. I wanted a phone not a sad gimmick. It seems phones will do everything these days except make voice and video calls properly.

I expect this to be modded flamebait, but everyone that does that knows what I'm saying is true, and I'm certainly not just intending to aggravate people. I'm just sick of intelligent people feeding companies that will turn around and fuck them.

Re:Little known fact

[r_newman]

Little known fact: Anyone who uses the phrase "Apple Fanboy" is in fact either a Microsoft Fanboy, Linux Fanboy, Nokia Fanboy, HTC Fanboy, or Sony Fanboy.

Or bitter because they don't earn enough to be able to justify the cost of a piece of Apple kit instead of the cheaper and less 'cool' Dell, Nokia, Creative etc.