Comments on: Updated: iPhone 3G Connection Issues: Can Apple Software Fix Infineon Hardware Problem?

By: Rodney Bieberle

Rodney Bieberle — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:43:18 +0000

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By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:28:57 +0000

Sorry to say the truth, Apple did a programming fault swithing longitude and latitude. Shows up easy if you geotag a picture with positioning and open it up on desktop or send it to picasa. Do it - it's true. At least those iphones here in Europe has this bug.

This is one of several bugs with the so called gps that isn't a gps as it's too limited for that function.

By: iPhoneDev

iPhoneDev — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:34:24 +0000

sorry for the mistakes.

By: iPhoneDev

iPhoneDev — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:32:34 +0000

The A-GPS on the iPhone is one of the mostbaccurate and fayest gps I have ever seen j acellpuone and if they add new gps features to the 2.1 update, it can compete with leading manufacturers like garmin and tomtom.

By: iPhoneDev

iPhoneDev — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:28:20 +0000

I have no problems with the 3g reception on the iPhone I can use it everywhere there is available 3g coverage at top speed.

By: pyroguysf

pyroguysf — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:24:57 +0000

Oh and while I'm not putting my trust 100% in those statements, it's just something you have to consider, mainly my fourth point about publicity. I also apologize for any spelling/grammatical errors I may have as I'm typing on my partly broken laptop keyboard.

By: pyroguysf

pyroguysf — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:17:03 +0000

From all I've read on the various articles about the problem-

-Infineon says their same chipsets have been used in other phones such as Samsung's, and they work fine.

-Apple programmed the chips to ask for more 3G bandwidth than they actually need, so there's probably alot of unused bandwidth.

-AT&T (and the other carriers)probably had a spike of new 3G users that their towers might not have been ready for, or might not be able to handle.

-Honestly, we're talking about THE Apple iPhone, not some random phone, so go figure, when something goes wrong, it's going to get more publicity. One comment I read from AT&T said they around 2% of people were complaining, as opposed to 1% on average of similar problems with other phones.

By: firesign

firesign — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:50:58 +0000

i always find it amazing how all the tech blogs will be all over something like this, and then a few days later it's like "oh, well, the guy who broke this on his blog is some idiot who was wrong the first three dozen times". by then, though, the wire services have picked it up and everybody already considers it factual. @jeff: your garmin is more accurate because it only uses the gps satellites. when it can't see them it tells you there is no service (i have a nuvi 660). when the a-gps in the iphone can't see the satellites for whatever, it uses cell tower triangulation which is less accurate for obvious reasons.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:41:49 +0000

if A-GPS is better why does it show me on the wrong road sometimes? My garmin is much more accurate

By: AnteL0pe

AnteL0pe — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:28:27 +0000

To the "new to the scene" Billy. A-GPS is the term being used exactly as you described it with the iPhone, but that isn't what the term A-GPS was always used for. I thik it was Verizon, may have been Sprint, that was using the "old skool" A GPS which was basically tower triangulation. I believe it was originally designed to be used with E911 systems for caller location.

By: Billy

Billy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:11:17 +0000

To the Dummy Jeff. A-GPS is better than regular GPS. Its faster and more accurate. It uses the Cell tower to get the general location quickly, then uses the GPS to hone in on the postions. A-GPS is considered an upgrade over regular GPS so settle down there buddy.

By: jeff

jeff — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:05:49 +0000

Haven't had any 3g issues in Detroit suburbs. But the GPS is a piece of crap. How can they advertise that it has GPS when it's really just an A-GPS? It's not very accurate at all.