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And other carriers and manufacturers have done the same thing with a software fix. Do you see several posts per day from 3G owners about poor reception? Nope, didn't think so, but it was an issue right after launch - until a software fix came out.

The poor reception went away beacuse the signal bars were fixed. You simply can't fix this issues with software.
 
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