3G sucks. What a joke.

[0071284]

You're either kidding or a moron. 3G slower than Edge..........right. Have you returned your device for a replacement since yours clearly does not function LIKE THE OTHER SEVERAL MILLION IPHONE 3G ALREADY IN USE???????

Moron.

Yeah. I'm a moron.

What cities have you tried your 3G phone in? Have you been to NYC with it?
Chicago?
Do you travel?

Go to times square and open safari. It takes several minutes.
Turn off 3G and it doesn't.

Let me clear that up for you, since I'm such a moron.
3G - several minutes.
Edge - less than one minute.

What is quicker:
Several minutes, or less than one minute?

Questions?



To the hacked/jailbreak guy.
No, I did not break the phone. Thanks for letting me know it would void my rights and assuming that though.

Oh, and it looks like more than 2% of the posts on this site are about problems with the iPhone. We must all be fanboys.


This product does not work as advertised. Plain and simple. It works some places, and doesn't work in others. It does not work in the most populated cities in the USA. That is lame.



BBBENSON - thank you for actually having something logical to say. I will call apple and see if they can help with the 1st gen phone.
I have my doubts about my 3G being a bad phone, but I will talk to them about that as well. My buddies and I all have them and we all work in the travel industry. We all have the same problems in the same major cities, so I think you can understand why I don't think it is the phone, but I will ask them.

JCOSTAMAN - You are a fanboy, not me. I don't post the same thing twice. Your phone must be really fast to be able to do that. Is it a 6G?

 

[barkomatic]

No, solid blue does NOT mean excellent coverage. It means you're in an approximate coverage area. AT&T does not have contours with service grading at this time for 3G coverage, only EDGE service.

If that is true it is not explained at all on the coverage map. You simply type in your address or zip code, check the "3G" box and you are should a map of solid blue indicating coverage. This is no disclaimer indicating that coverage is uneven in the area.

This brings me back back to my point that the advertising by both Apple *and* AT&T is misleading. I may *still* have bought an iphone if I understood just how unreliable 3G service would be in reality--since there are other aspects of the phone I like which almost make up for it. However, my perception was that 3G service would be mostly good and that a dropped call or an inability to connect to the internet would be rare.

 

[xraydoc]

3G in the middle of Manhattan sucks! I tried it two weeks ago myself. Had to turn OFF 3G to get any data whatsoever. And this is with 5 solid bars.

3G in Philadelphia and surrounding areas, Newark NJ, Harrisburg and Hershey PA and Wilmington DE is very sporatic; sometimes it works very well, other times the iPhone's Safari will time out, mail will refuse to connect, and things like Weather app and others refuse to get updates - regardless of how many bars of signal the phone shows. I've found many times I've had to turn 3G, wait for EDGE to activate, then switch back to 3G to get data service, regardless of good signal strength.

Not sure who's fault this is - Apple's or AT&T's - but either way they are partners in this and the blame ultimately has to fall to both of them. Apple cannot sell a product to the US market then say, "well, sorry it doesn't work - not our fault," without giving us the option to choose another carrier.

I don't have any other 3G phones to compare with, so I can't say if its an AT&T problem or an iPhone problem. At this point, I think that while there are defective iPhones out there for sure, AT&T's 3G network in many busy metropolitan areas just isn't able to handle the load. EDGE, for what ever reason, while not all that quick, seems way, way more solid and reliable everywhere I've been even where 3G service is "available."

 

[MBHockey]

Yeah. I'm a moron.

What cities have you tried your 3G phone in? Have you been to NYC with it?
Chicago?
Do you travel?

Go to times square and open safari. It takes several minutes.
Turn off 3G and it doesn't.

Let me clear that up for you, since I'm such a moron.
3G - several minutes.
Edge - less than one minute.

What is quicker:
Several minutes, or less than one minute?

Questions?



To the hacked/jailbreak guy.
No, I did not break the phone. Thanks for letting me know it would void my rights and assuming that though.

Oh, and it looks like more than 2% of the posts on this site are about problems with the iPhone. We must all be fanboys.


This product does not work as advertised. Plain and simple. It works some places, and doesn't work in others. It does not work in the most populated cities in the USA. That is lame.



BBBENSON - thank you for actually having something logical to say. I will call apple and see if they can help with the 1st gen phone.
I have my doubts about my 3G being a bad phone, but I will talk to them about that as well. My buddies and I all have them and we all work in the travel industry. We all have the same problems in the same major cities, so I think you can understand why I don't think it is the phone, but I will ask them.

JCOSTAMAN - You are a fanboy, not me. I don't post the same thing twice. Your phone must be really fast to be able to do that. Is it a 6G?

I use my iPhone in NYC all the time on 3G. I don't have the problems you do. 3G is way faster than edge. Get it replaced?