I've had EXACTLY the same experience. Actually, I downloaded the update because my phone wasn't connecting at all while on 3G. Since updating, my phone now takes anywhere from 15-30 minutes to receive text (tested by having several friends on different networks and on AT&T text me while standing next to me), my phone/internet sometimes doesn't connect at all even though I'm showing 2-4 bars standing in the middle of the street, and 3G still doesn't work. I'm in New York City.
As if it wasn't bad enough that my iPhone doesn't connect to the network, my battery doesn't stay charged throughout the day and I'm constantly recharging it just to keep it alive in a 24 hour period.
The speaker phone is so quiet even when turned all the way up that you can't hear it unless you put in right in your ear hole. What a joke.
I came to this phone from Verizon and I immediately regret the decision. In the 10+ years I was with Verizon I can count on 1 hand the number of times I've dropped calls. Since getting the iPhone I drop more calls in 1 day than I had in 10 years with Verizon. And the call quality of the calls that aren't dropped is so low I'm constantly asking people to repeat themselves or they can't understand what I'm saying.
And what's with the lack of in-building service?! I mean, the phone works only if I step outside of buildings. The second I step inside the phone goes dead or drops all the way down to 1 bar. That's in most buildings. In the building I work in the phone is completely dead unless I step outside. I won't tell you what it does to my productivity having a phone that requires me to stop what I'm doing and walk outside every few minutes to use it.
It's a great device in concept, but it works for *****! What do I do?! I can't run my business off a phone that doesn't work! I'd be better off with a couple tin cans and some string. Maybe a carrier pigeon?
I heard there's a class action suit being filed against Apple because this 3G phone doesn't work. Does anybody know where I can get in on this?
I want out!!!
