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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.'"
So... how is this news? Apple has problems supporting the end user with value for their money...
This shouldn't be on slashdot, it should stay on engadget (aka apple-gadget)
So you're laughing at him because he chooses to stick with his older Nokia 6220 that entirely suits his needs, despite being an older product.
So that means you *do* consider a phone to be a fashion accessory then?
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
That crowd certainly exists, but you're going to have a hard time convincing me that everyone who's got an iPhone got it just because it has an Apple logo on the back. That crowd was tapped out in the first couple weeks or so.
If that's the case, then why have Apple not *removed* the Apple logo from the iPhone by now then? In doing so, they could cut down on the manufacturing cost of the phone and pass the savings onto the customer in order to attract those people who, by your argument, have no interest in the logo being there in the first place and are just buying the iPhone on its technical merits.
Just curious...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
This is a thread on apple's support board.
There is a widespread issue that has been bricking iphones since the release of 2.0
It has to do with the entire app store, app installation and app deletion on the phone. Doing any of these will brick your iphone. It has troubled many iphone users, including myself.
Basically the issue is, if you do any of the above, the iphone will brick. You will be have to restore your phone from default settings when you get home to get the iphone to work again. I know technically this isnt a real brick situation, but if you're on the road, lets say vacation... the last thing you want is your cell phone locking up and becoming useless. When it "bricks" You can not make phone calls, or do anything. You MUST bring it back to your house and restore the entire phone (which loses any data stored on the iphone btw).
Please cue random, ``If OS X were Open Sourced it would all disappear,'' comment.
Working with Linux and OS X on a daily basis the defense, ``Linux is free'' doesn't hold water anymore due to the billions invested by IBM and others to make it stable.
I love both Operating Systems, but drop the juvenile rant about first released products. You might as well bring back the Car analogy and all the recalls that occur in the auto-industry, even though that's over 100 years old.
Suppose the way to test it would be to put the same sim in a different 3G phone when experiencing problems with the iPhone and see how it works?
In the comments section of an overseas article regarding this problem, one user writes:
This isn't an AT&T problem, it isn't an isolated problem, this is something being experienced by disappointed iphone users all over the world.
Oh well, its hard to feel much sympathy for early adopter suckers who fell for some bling & a slick marketing campaign.
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.