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发信人: perse (salt of the earth), 信区: SanFrancisco
标 题: RP post: Bye-bye Iphone 3G. Buyers 小心.
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Aug 16 23:05:50 2008)
After trying the brand new iphone 3G for one week, I concluded this little
thing is a piece of crap.
-- I am not even referring to the lack of functionality and versatility,
the wonderful free softwares, cheap battery etc etc, all the great things
you will miss on the Iphone. I was prepared for that, but not for this!
The phone & the 3G itself is seriously crippled!
The phone had extremely poor signal quality all the time.
First of all, the 3G is not very stable. It reverts to Edge all the time.
Sometimes it even says "no connection" and prompts me to turn on "data
roaming" ...
But what made it worse was the phone signal. It has barely 1 feeble bar
while my other ATT phones has full bars. Today, the bad boy decided to take
a full day vacation and gave me "No service" all the time while I was
driving around. I couldn't make any calls or receive any calls, couldn't
browse the internet, and I was totally stuck.
After getting home and did a bit web surfing, I found one website listed
some signal boosting techniques, including:
"dangling a USB cable off the device and buying a signal booster."
What the hack. Anyway, following some other silly and 民科 suggestions ---
resetting/rebooting it N time, unplugging/plugging the SIM card N times,
rubbing the SIM contacts, I got the signal jumpping to 3 bars for a very
brief moment but that didn't last. It died own immediately back to the
lustless one bar status in a few minute.
Finally after fumbling through each settings of the phone, I found the only
solution is to turn 3G off! With 3G off, the signal jumps to 3-4 bars right
away and it stays at 3-4 bars. With 3G on, it is a dead 0.5 bar.
That made me recall an article from EE times I read yesterday, which alleges
that the IFX 3G chip/software in Iphone might faulted.
>>'Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris declined comment on whether iPhone was
having connection problems or if it was preparing a software fix.
>>A spokesman for AT&T Inc, the exclusive U.S. carrier for iPhone, said that
it was working well on AT&T's network and that the carrier had received
very few complaints.
>>"This is not something that's high on our radar screen. It's not something
we've had a lot of complaints about," said AT&T's Mark Siegel. (Reporting
by Sinead Carew, Additional reporting by Georgina Prodhan in London; editing
by Phil Berlowitz)'
That wasn't high on my radar either, until just today!
And then there was another article with the following message:
>>"The iPhone 3G is presumed to be programmed so that when too many people
access their local 3G cell, the iPhone 3G will perceive that the 3G signal
quality has dropped below the preset threshold and revert to the EDGE
network - even when there’s still sufficient 3G bandwidth available to
support reliable 3G calling and web surfing. And, as more and more iPhone 3G
’s come online, the problem with overcrowded 3G networks will likely get
worse."
I guess other people may already know this way ahead of me, and I probably
deserve a serious "PENG". Anyway, I will try to return this stupid thing
tomorrow if they don't charge me the open box/restocking fee.
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